Final Results
APPLETON, Wis. – Months after claiming the school's first women's indoor track and field conference title, Illinois College completed the double by claiming the program's first outdoor championship on Saturday at the 2025 Midwest Conference Outdoor Championships at Whiting Field on the campus of Lawrence University.
IC compiled 139 points, outdistancing Ripon's 134.5.
The Lady Blues coaching staff, Head Coach Dirk Doehring, and assistants Anthony Flores, Maxwell Schweitzer, Rylan Hynek, and
Ashley Drake, were named the 2025 Coaching Staff of the Year. IC sophomore
Aleese Trimingham was named the meet's Outstanding Track Performer while freshman
McKenzie Murray was named the Newcomer of the Meet. Senior
Brooke Oakley was awarded the conference's Elite 20 Award, which recognizes the student-athlete with the highest cumulative grade point average in the championship.
As it did during the indoor championships in March, the team title came down to the final event, and when the Lady Blues' 4x400-meter relay team of
Kami Rhoades, Murray, Trimingham, and Oakley captured the event in a school-record time of 4:00.74, IC was the champion.
Along with the 4x400 team, IC crowned five champions on the day.
The 4x100-meter relay squad of Murray,
Fynesse Jones,
Haley Garrett, and
Deja Anderson took gold in 47.95 seconds, the third-best time in school history.
Individually, Trimingham and Garrett were both double champions.
Trimingham took the 100-meter hurdles in a season-best 14.64 seconds and the 400-meter hurdles in a school-record performance of 1:03.63.
Garrett captured the 100 meters in a personal-best 12.34 seconds and the 200 meters in 25.04 seconds, which is the fourth-best effort in school history. Garrett was joined on the podium in the 100 by Jones (4th in 12.50 seconds) and Murray (5th in 12.53 seconds) and in the 200 by Murray (2nd in 25.40 seconds) and Jones (4th in 25.61 seconds).
IC also got a runner-up finish from Oakley in the 400 meters as she recorded a personal-best time of 59.96 seconds.
In the field events, the Lady Blues had three individuals reach the podium, led by
Keyleigh Thomas, who took third in the javelin with a throw of 38.00 meters. Oakley was fourth in the high jump, clearing a personal-best 1.51 meters, and
Lindsey Ruff placed eighth in the shot put with a mark of 11.24 meters.
