CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – On the first day of the Illini Invite, hosted by Illinois, sophomore Ashlee Stieler got the Redbird men's and women's track & field teams off to a hot start, winning the pentathlon with a personal-record 3,523 points.
At Friday's competition, which was devoted solely to the multi-events, Stieler stole the show, using personal-bests performances in four of the five pentathlon events to capture the seventh-highest point total in Illinois State track & field history.
Stieler started the day off on the right foot, finishing third in the 60-meter hurdles with a personal-record time of 8.