The ISU men’s and women’s track teams put on strong performances this weekend at their first home meet of the season, winning five events and placing in the top three in 11 other events.

The men’s team won five events, including one event unattached. The distance medley team of Brandon Rooney, Elijah Braimah, Johnny Reel and Dan Taylor won with a time of 9:57.10.

Taylor said it felt good to win in front of the home fans.

“It’s kind of a slower time, but it’s pretty early still,” Taylor said. “It was a good win, especially for a home meet. We don’t like people to come in here and try to beat us, so we try not to let that happen as much as possible.”

The 4×400-meter relay team of Eric Parker, James Robinson, Tony Stanfield and Braimah also won, with a time of 3:14.41.

“Tony Stanfield ran a really good leg to get us back into it and then Elijah [Braimah] finished that off, so that was really a good win there,” said ISU men’s coach Steve Lynn.

Leading the way for throwers was Chase Madison with a winning weight throw of 18.45 meters. Placing second in the event was Kendall Fogle.

“I thought it was pretty good competition,” Madison said. “It’s nice that we could come out 1-2. I feel like I’m getting more comfortable with the two-turn [technique], I just need to keep working on it in practice.”

Tony Douglas won the triple jump and placed second in the long jump, and Jared Graham won the 400-meter dash competing unattached. Other top finishes include Richard Newton placing second in the one-mile run, Kiel Uhl’s second place in the 3000-meter run and Kellen Burl’s second place in the 60-meter hurdles.

Lynn said he was pleased with the performance this week and felt the team really improved from the Nebraska meet last weekend.

“We really competed hard, and won quite a few events,” Lynn said. “We were definitely better this week than we were last week. Overall, we’ve still got a long way to go, but I’m definitely pleased with what we did.”

On the women’s side, Ada Anderson led the way with a win in the 800-meter run and Sara Boisen placed second.

“I felt really good,” Anderson said. “I felt really relaxed, really loose. I’m just waiting for competition to pick up these next few meets.”

Rebecca Williams placed third in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.56, which, according to women’s coach Dick Lee, is a run that can be improved on.

“Rebecca Williams had a good day,” Lee said. “It was not a good race for her in the hurdles, but when 8:56 is a bad race that’s a good thing. That means that when things click you’ll see a big time drop.”

Other top finishes for the women included Tamela Jadin, who placed second in the pole vault, and Priya Hoze, who placed third in the long jump and second in the triple jump, competing unattached.

“I feel like our jumpers did well, both [the] long jump and triple jump were solid,” Lee said.

Lynn said the team competed hard, but had a little bit of a letdown from the first meet at Nebraska.

“Sometimes I think you can be a little rusty the second week you race when you’re not used to racing,” Lee said. “I think we felt a little bit of that this weekend. Overall I’m pleased with the efforts this weekend. We competed hard, gave our best efforts out there.”

Next weekend the Cyclones will compete at the Panther Classic in Cedar Falls.