FORT WAYNE, Ind. - The Milwaukee women's track & field team traveled to Purdue Fort Wayne on Saturday to compete in the opening day of the Horizon League Indoor Championships.
 
Milwaukee will head into the two-day event with 32 points and are in third place on the team leaderboard. Milwaukee is just five points behind second-place Purdue Fort Wayne, while Youngstown State leads the field with 76 team points on the first day.
 
Anna Szepieniec highlighted the day for the Black & Gold, winning the pentathlon after earning 3864 points.
 
Her score sets a new program record most recently set by Natalie Block in 2022 with 3764. Her mark also broke the Horizon League Indoor Championship Meet record of 3756, set in 2012 by Milwaukee's Shelby Schaal.
 
Kallie Volk also put herself on the podium of the event as her 3601 points were good enough to finish third at the meet, while also moving her up to fifth on the program's indoor leaderboard in the event.
 
Szepieniec continued her day by qualifying for the final round of the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.88, then wrapped up a fifth-place finish in the long jump with a leap of 5.83m.
 
Leading the pack in the 60m dash after the preliminary round is Dominique Thomas after running an impressive 7.57. Thomas wasn't done yet however, also posting a time of 25.18 in the prelims of the 200m dash to put her through to the finals.
 
Milwaukee got a pair of finals qualifiers in the 400m dash with Katie Burns leading the way with the top time of 57.35. Leah Handshoe used a 57.89 to grab fourth and punch her ticket for tomorrow's finals as well.
 
The league's Athlete of the Year on the women's side was in action when Anelise Egge turned in a performance of 2:21.52 to place her third and also clinch a spot in the finals on Sunday.
 
In the pole vault, Hailey Soriaga and Isabel Roloff each cleared 3.56m, with Soriaga taking seventh and Roloff eighth on tiebreakers.
 
The Panther's Distance Medley Relay team of Ally Schmitz, Taylor Thimmesch, Rachel Helm, and Cailin Kinas ran to a third-place finish to close the day at 12:13.37.
 
The championship meet will conclude tomorrow, starting with the final three events of the heptathlon at 8:00 a.m. (CT). Field events will begin with the high jump at 9:15 a.m. (CT), and finish with the triple jump and shot put. Track events are slated to begin with the mile run tomorrow at 12:00 p.m. (CT) and will be available to view on ESPN+ beginning at 11:55 a.m.