The Central Methodist Women’s track & field program made plenty of history at the NAIA Indoor National Championships this past weekend in Brookings, South Dakota.

The Eagles garnered seven NAIA All-Americans, including a pair of national runner-up finishes and a third-place standing. This lifted the women to fifth place as a team with 32.5 points, the highest finish among any CMU team in program history. 

On day one, the Eagles earned a pair of All-America finishes in the pentathlon. Junior Renee Finke finished second in the five-event test of endurance, totaling a school record 3,701 points, only 16 points shy of an NAIA gold medal.

Fellow junior Haley Bellamy placed seventh in the pentathlon with a respectable 3,440 points.

The women’s honors continued to mount on day two when junior Baleigh Morris placed fifth in the 3,000m racewalk, earning All-American honors for the second consecutive year. She finished the race in a time of 15:19.93. 

In the throws, senior Karli Wolfe earned a seventh-place standing in the weight throw to nab All-America honors for the first time in her career. The Linn Creek, Mol, native threw a new personal best and set a school record of 17.37 meters to land on the podium. 

The final day of competition Saturday saw three more Eagles earn All-American honors, including two top-three finishes. In the high jump, senior Delaney Miller cleared her first four heights of the event. She finished with a new personal best and tied the school record with a height of 1.74 meters to earn a National Runner-Up finish.

Finke became a two-time All-American over the weekend with a sixth-place finish in the high jump, finishing with a mark of 1.71 meters.

Dayana Montenegro shaved two seconds off of her personal best in the finals of the 600-meter run, posting a new school record time of 1:30.62, good enough for a third-place finish and All-America honors.

Senior Kailey Johnson competed in the prelims of the 60-meter hurdles, running the event in a time of 9.07 seconds. Fellow teammate Parys Smith was right behind, finishing in 9.08 seconds.

Na’Zariah James hit a mark of 5.28 meters in the long jump and just missed out on All-America status in the triple jump. The freshman hit a new personal best and school record of 11.81 meters to finish ninth.

Janiyah Brown finished 15th in the triple jump with a mark of 11.50 meters.