Women's
4x400-Meter Relay
| Past Champions | Recent All-Americans |
Ali McCoy, Mackenzie Clemens, Brooke Halcott, Racahel Anderson -- Illinois Wesleyan
The women’s 4x400-meter relay proved to be an exciting conclusion that would impress any sports fan. Illinois Wesleyan’s improbable and incredible come back in the relay cemented their first women’s team national championship at the NCAA III Indoor Track & Field National Championships at the ONU Sportscenter.

As the gun was fired Staci Jackson of the defending national champion Texas Lutheran sprang her team to a lead that only kept growing larger as the race continued. Illinois Wesleyans’s anchor and three-time individual national champion Rachel Anderson took the baton with her team in fifth place.

“Our coach told us we needed this race to win it all, so it was a do or die situation for all us. In practice we always listen to Tim McGraw’s “How Bad Do You Want It” and we just really wanted this race and this championship. We worked hard and this is amazing.” -- Rachel Anderson, Illinois Wesleyan
At the end of her first lap she was in second but out of first by only a ten-meter stretch. As the runners turned the final corner Anderson’s burst of speed catapulted her to a photo-finish win.

Illinois Wesleyan’s relay team, Anderson, Mackenzie Clemens, Brooke Halcott and Alli McCoy finished second last year to Texas Lutheran by .04 seconds. The race was the perfect finale for an incredible team.

Wartburg took second place (3:52.68) and Texas Lutheran took third (3:53.59) to round out the top three.

The rest of the top eight finishers were Wisconsin La-Crosse in fourth (3:54.40), Williams (Mass.) in fifth (3:55.53) and Wisconsin-Stevens Point took sixth (3:55.79).

Wisconsin Eau-Claire finished seventh (3:56.38) and Central College (Iowa) took eighth (3:59.93.)
Final Results 
4x400 Meter Relay
    1 Illinois Wesleyan (Ali McCoy, Mackenzie Clemens, 
      Brooke Halcott, Rachel Anderson)                3:52.21  H2          
    2 Wartburg College (Jenny Kordick, Kelsey Steffens, 
      Christine Marchik, Hannah Baker)                3:52.68  H2          
    3 Texas Lutheran (Staci Jackson, Ashley Williams, 
      Destiney Jones, Taffey Gray)                    3:53.59  H2          
    4 Wisconsin La Crosse (Katie Steingraeber, Caitin Perra, 
      Abby Lien, Danica Schaefer)                     3:54.40  H2          
    5 Williams College (Carrie Plitt, Sara Wild, Veronica 
      Ivey, Emily Heaslip)                            3:55.53  H1          
    6 Wisconsin Stevens Pt (Andrea Irvine, Angela Steffens, 
      Kathleen Folbrecht, Laura Simonis)              3:55.79  H1          
    7 Wisconsin Eau Claire (Laura Broner, Corrina Saager, 
      Maria Peloquin, Liz Kooistra)                   3:56.38  H1          
    8 Central College (Ia) (Emily Teas, Kari Hutchinson, 
      Jill Ziskovsky, Rachelle Tipton)                3:59.93  H1          
    9 Wheaton College (Ma) (Chizoba Ezeigwe, Kelly Libert, 
      Natana Jules, Celeste Karpow)                   4:00.97  H2          
   10 Wisconsin Platteville (Alison Ross, Bobbi Arand, Liz 
      Baker, Jessica Scott)                           4:01.30  H1
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