Indoor travels to Chicago for the first team meeting

The program is slated to welcome back ten male and nine female athletes who are among the top 10 in Purdue history in their respective indoor events.

Purdue returns five male and three female athletes who finished in the top eight in a Big Ten Championships event. All four runners are back in the men’s 4x400m race, which placed seventh at the championships.

Notes for men

• Brett Otterbacher is the only athlete to appear in the program’s top 10 in three different races, with his second-place finish in the 400m (46.83), 500m (1:02.50) and 600m (1:17.52). ). He was eighth in the 400m at the Big Tens last season.
• Praise Aniamakathe only All-American from last year’s team, returns after finishing ninth at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships in the triple jump with a season-best 15.98m (52-5.25). He was also the Big Ten runner-up last season.
• Cameron Miller sets his program record of 20.40 in the 200m dash last season. He also ran the second-fastest time by a Boilermaker at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, 20.54. Miller took bronze at the Big Team Indoor Championships with 20.82.
• Other returnees in the program’s top 10: Andrew Hantson No. 3 in the heptathlon (5,417 points), Kiefer Bell No. 4 in the mile (4:03.99), Jasiah Rogers Tie No. 5 in the 60-meter dash (6.66), Logan Sandlin No. 6 in the heptathlon (5,169 points), Bode Gilkerson tied for No. 9 in the high jump (7-00.25/2.15 m), Nolan Macklin No. 10 in the 200 m (21.17) and Nickens Lemba No. 10 in the 500m (1:04.36).

Notes for women

• Alexia Smith is one of two athletes to appear in the top 10 program categories twice, placing 3rd in the 500m (1:12.06) and 8th in the 400m (1:12.06).
• Emma Squires With fourth place in the 3000 m (9:28.12) and 10th place in the mile (4:47.29), she also finished in the top 10 of an event twice.
• Zoe Sullivan enters the season ranked second in program history in the 60-meter hurdles (8.24). She is the highest-ranked active athlete in her respective event. Sullivan finished eighth in the Big Ten last season.
• Nia Wilson is fourth in program history in the 60m (7.39), a time she set in the preliminaries of the Big Ten Championship last season. In the final she took ninth place.
• Bryanna Craig She led the women’s team at the Big Tens last season with her second-place finish in the pentathlon. With a personal best of 4,046 points, she ranks fourth in program history.
• Jalen Elrod She shared a podium finish with Craig at the Big Ten Championships last year with her sixth-place finish in the pentathlon. Her personal best score of 3,815 points ranked seventh in program history.
• Cierra Williams returns this season after missing the 2023-24 season. In 2023, she placed seventh indoors in the Big Tens in the 400 m (53.75). She is fifth in program history with a personal best of 53.33.
• Other returnees in the program’s top 10: K’Ja Talley Tie No. 4 in the 60m hurdles (8.26) and Payne Turney No. 9 in the mile (4:47.12).

Next

Friday’s race is the only one on the schedule for 2024. The team returns after the new year for a two-day meet in the Rod McCravy Memorial Invite, hosted by Kentucky.