Seniors of the Bowling Green women’s track team Brooke Pleger and Brittany Sinclair both set new school records during the Akron Invitational on Saturday.

For Pleger, this was a milestone Head Coach Lou Snelling was expecting this season.

“It’s really not a matter of if she breaks the school record, it’s a matter of when,” Snelling said earlier this week.

The record Pleger broke was in the weight throw, one that she set herself last year at 67 feet 10.25 inches. With a mark of 68 feet 2.5 inches, she became the first Falcon in team history to make a throw above 68. With that, she is now ranked 11th in the country.

For Sinclair, she is now the fastest runner in the Mid-American Conference in the 400. She ran a time of 55.46 seconds, more than a second faster than her previous best of 56.53 seconds. The time took down a record that stood for 16 years set by Tracy Hill in 1999.

“We took some exciting steps today, particularly Brittany and Brooke with their school records,” Snelling said. “Hands down, this was our best team performance at this meet. We still have a lot that needs to be accomplished next weekend if we want to set ourselves up for success at the MAC Championships.”

The rest of the team continued their strong performances from this season, adding to their number of personal bests from last weekend. Staying in the 400, redshirt sophomore Taylor Rambo also set a new personal best with a time of 57.33 seconds to win her division.

Junior Alicia Arnold competed in the 200 and also set a new personal best with a time of 24.58 seconds. With that mark, she now ranks second in the MAC for the event. Freshman Cortisha Short ran a 25.32 and junior Kera Lamotte ran a 25.41 in the same event, both personal bests.

For the long distance section, redshirt junior Maria Meredith set a season best time of 5 minutes 5.72 seconds in the mile. For the field section, sophomore Raven Porter tied her career best in the high jump event with a mark of 5 feet 5 inches.

Senior Krystin Reiser competed in the pentathlon and scored 3,353 points, 119 less than what she scored at the MAC Championships last year. Freshman Sydnee Matthew competed in the event for the first time in her career and scored 3,036 points.

Redshirt sophomore Kori Reiser threw 142 feet 10 inches in the discus and placed fourth. The mark is nearly 20 feet shy of her personal best that she threw last year and allowed her to compete in the NCAA regionals.

The team has one more meet next weekend before they go to the MAC Championships in two weeks.