In a meet loaded with Division 1 stars from around the nation, the ISU men’s and women’s track teams saw personal records, close finishes, national qualifying marks and a few disappointments on Friday and Saturday at the Iowa State Classic.

David Rotich highlighted men’s events by placing first in the one-mile run, with a time of 4:04.79. The time earned him a NCAA provisional mark, but Rotich said there’s still room for improvement. A provisional mark does not guarantee him a spot at the NCAA National meet.

“It’s good, but it’s not good enough,” he said. “There’ll be so many people running this weekend who will hit that provisional mark, and I wanted to be a little faster . I need to shave off about four seconds.”

Competing in the heptathlon, Neil Hines took second, also scoring an NCAA provisional time.

“Both he and David [Rotich] hit provisional,” said men’s coach Steve Lynn. “I think they’ll both have to do a little better in order to get to nationals, but they certainly put their name on the board there, that was really good.”

Lynn said he was impressed with Dan Taylor, who had a time of 8:09.29 in the 3,000-meter run.

“Dan Taylor – a big breakthrough for him in the 3,000,” Lynn said. “That was really a fast race for him.”

Other competitors included Tony Douglas, who finished ninth in the long jump with a distance of 7.4 meters, and Elijah Braimah, who finished 20th in the 40-meter dash, and partially strained his hamstring.

Lynn said he felt good about the team’s performance in some ways, but was also disappointed in some aspects.

“We had some other guys who had personal records, too, and some of the guys are definitely going to have to step up and be better in the Big 12 meet, we just have to get better from there,” Lynn said. “We had certain guys do really well, and some other guys really need to step up and do better.”

For the women, one of the highlights of the meet was Erica Lynn’s first-place performance in the pentathlon.

“It was exciting, I put some really strong performances out, I started with a [personal record] in the hurdles, which was a really good start, and then my high jump was pretty solid [and] everything else was solid,” Erica Lynn said. “I know there are areas where I can improve, so that’s my goal.”

Another highlight came from Ada Anderson, who set a personal record with a second place run in the 800-meter run. Anderson led on the final stretch before narrowly being passed by Missouri’s Ashley Patten, who she will likely compete against again in the Big 12 Championships.

“I felt pretty good, the last turn coming down the homestretch I felt strong, but when I saw [Patten] coming by, I got stuck instead of focusing on my form, so I need to focus on my own race,” Anderson said. “I feel good but there’s still a lot left and I look forward to the next two weeks of training.”

Rebecca Williams finished seventh in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.46. Also setting a personal and school record for Iowa State was Tamela Jadin, with a distance of 3.56 on the pole vault.

Women’s coach Dick Lee said it was a good meet, but the team needs to get healthy to be able to improve.

“We had some very good things happen,” Lee said. “We still have a bunch of people that have to get healthy. We’ve got a bunch of illness going through the team, so a lot of kids have been battling sickness the past week or so.”

The Cyclones travel to the UNI- Dome Open on Friday.