A young ISU women’s track team ran to a ninth-place finish and the Texas A&M Aggies ran over the field on their way to the 2007 Big 12 Indoor Track Championship.

Iowa State scored 46 points to garner ninth-place honors, a great improvement from last year’s injury-plagued team that collected 18 points and finished last in the conference.

The Cyclones’ performance was headlined by senior Rebecca Williams winning the Big 12 Championship in the 60-meter hurdles. Williams’ time of 8.19 seconds, the fastest time in school history, clocks in as the eighth fastest in the nation this year.

Jenna Caffrey also made a very impressive conference debut by placing fourth in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.44 seconds, becoming the first freshman hurdler in Cyclone history to place in her Big 12 debut race. She also provisionally qualified for the NCAA National Championships with a time of 8.42 seconds in the preliminary round.

“It was definitely exciting,” Caffrey said. “It feels awesome, just kind of unreal.”

Williams and Caffrey were not the only Cyclones to have monster weekends. Redshirt freshman Lisa Koll made podium appearances in both the 5,000-meter run and the 3,000-meter run. Koll placed second in the 5,000m and fourth in the 3,000m.

“Overall, I’m content with how I did, but I feel like I should have done better than what I did, especially in the 5,000,” Koll said. “I didn’t run the race the exact way that I probably should’ve and because of that my time and place suffered.”

Along with Koll, Agata Kosuda graced the Big 12 podium two times by placing fourth in the triple jump and eighth in the long jump. It was only Kosuda’s second competition this season.

Seniors Sara Boisen and Jenny Mockler made the most of their final Big 12 Indoor races by garnering podium finishes. Boisen finished fifth in the 600-yard run with a time of 1:21.76, while Mockler placed third in the 1,000-meter run with a time 2:48.25. Mockler and Boisen later teamed up with Caffrey and Williams to finish seventh in the 4x400m relay for the Cyclones.

Spring and hurdles coach Scott Roberts was pleased with the efforts put forth by the young squad.

“I was real proud of the long young ladies today. Everything that we could do, we did.” Roberts said.