FORT WAYNE, Indiana (3/1/2025) -- The University of Detroit Mercy women's track and field team saw its distance medley relay score some points with one of the top times in school history as the Titans opened up the Horizon League Indoor Championships on Saturday.

The league meet is being held at Purdue Fort Wayne.

UDM earned five points in the DMR as the team of senior Nina Pizzo, juniors McKenzie McNitt and Claire Hunt and freshman Sofia Figueroa claimed fourth in 12:17.73, the fourth fastest time in school history. 

Freshman Meghan Koss moved into the finals of the 200-meters with a time of 25.24 in the preliminaries, good for eighth, and just missed a bid in the 60m, taking ninth in 7.68.

McNitt also narrowly missed the finals in the 400m as she placed ninth in 59.12.  

Senior Zoe Madden tallied a 12th-place effort in the long jump at 5.21-meters, while sophomore Helana Napiorkowski won her heat and was 13th overall in the 5,000, in 18:31.99. 

Day two of the event will get underway tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. 

60-METER HURDLES

• Gabriela Gashaj - 21st - 9.41
• Haley Lipscomb - 23rd - 9.67

60-METERS

• Meghan Koss - 9th - 7.68
• Olivia Velazquez - 21st - 8.08
• Jada Clark - 26th - 8.27

200-METERS

• Meghan Koss - 8th - 25.24
• Olivia Velazquez - 25th - 26.94
• Haley Lipscomb - 29th - 27.42
• Jada Clark - 30th - 27.49

400-METERS

• McKenzie McNitt - 9th - 59.12
• Audrey Williams - 19th - 1:01.47

800-METERS

• Ana Lopez - 15th - 2:24.39
• Kirsten Koss - 18th - 2:26.82

5,000-METERS

• Helana Napiorkowski - 13th - 18:31.99
• Alaina Burns - 22nd - 19:20.70
• Abby Fifield - 26th - 20:36.94
• Tia Jokic - 27th - 20:46.51

DMR

• Hunt, McNitt, Figueroa, Pizzo - 4th - 12:17.73

LONG JUMP

• Zoe Madden - 12th - 5.21 meters

WEIGHT

• Lyla Mullins - 14th - 13.16 meters
• Grace Steffes - 16th - 11.94 meters