The Aurora University Women's Track and Field team competed in the 2025 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Championship hosted by Milwaukee School of Engineering at UW-Parkside in Kenosha, WI.
The Spartans were conference runner-ups with 127.83 points. St. Norbert won the meet with 249.83 points.
Deedee Colon Maldonado was a quadruple conference champion, winning the 800-meter, mile, 3,000-meter, and 5,000 meter. She set NACC championship records in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter with finishes of 9:54.92 and 17:17.54, respectively. She was named the track athlete of the meet for her performance.
Lauren Bliefernicht scored a conference championship in the 200-meter. Finishing in 25.36s, she won by over a second.
Lauren Bliefernicht scored an All-Conference finish in the 60-meter with a runner-up finish. Skylar Gibbs finished runner-up in the heptathlon, and third place in the 60m Hurdles, earning All-Conference honors in both. The 4x400-meter relay of Mika Fields, Ari Mack, Skylar Gibbs, and Lauren Bliefernicht also finished in All-Conference position, with a third place finish in 4:10.78. The Distance Medley Relay team of Alex Gonzalez, Susana Martinez, Savannah Vazquez, and Mika Fields had a third place finish, also scoring All-Conference honors.
Other Scorers of the Meet:
Keyara Bailey - High Jump - 4th
Skylar Gibbs - Pole Vault - 4th
N'Dya Fields - 3,000-Meter - 4th
Alayna Koehler - High Jump - 5th
Grace Beilfuss - High Jump - 5th
N'Dya Fields - 5,000-Meter - 5th
Mika Fields - 400-Meter - 5th
Emma Jasutis - 3,000-Meter - 5th
Emma Jasutis - 5,000-Meter - 6th
Ari Mack - 400-Meter - 7th
Faustyna Karpiesiuk - Shot Put - 8th
Marisa Janecek - Weight Throw - 8th
Ana Ponce - Mile - 8th
Team Scores
St. Norbert College -249.83
Aurora University - 127.83
Concordia University Wisconsin - 103.33
Milwaukee School of Engineering - 70
Illinois Institute of Technology - 39
Wisconsin Lutheran University - 25
Concordia University Chicago - 21
Edgewood College - 15
Benedictine University - 9
Dominican University - 2
Up next, the Spartans will compete in the Wartburg NCAA Qualifier at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA on Saturday, March 8.