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Deedee Colon Maldonado
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Spartan Women Finish Runner-Up At NACC Championships

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.

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