ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Team captain Katie Halbert (Keller, Texas) registered three school records as Navy track and field hosted the annual Wesley Brown Invitational over the weekend in Annapolis. Halbert set the school record in the 60m hurdles, long jump, and pentathlon.
 
"I have never been part of a program that someone has set three school records in the matter of five hours," Director of Navy Track and Field Jamie Cook said after the meet. "As a captain and in regards to leadership, you can't say enough about and the way she was able to come out and compete and do things as well as she did. I am really happy for her and the hard work she has put in."
 
Halbert set her school records on Friday night of competition as part of the multi-events. The Keller, Texas native opened up the meet with a school-record performance of 8.66 in the 60m hurdles. With her first attempt in the long jump, she registered a distance of 5.98m (19-07.50) to best the previous record by 0.05m. In the fifth and final event of the pentathlon, Halbert tallied 707 points to give her the victory in the multi-event and tie the Navy school-record 3,709 total points.
 
Erin Higgins (Ashburn, Va.) finished the pentathlon with 3,691 points, which ranks third in Navy history. Annie Taylor (Nashville, Tenn.), who set the Navy record in the pentathlon last season, finished third with 3,520 points to once again add her name to the Navy top 10 (seventh).
 
On the men's side, Baynes Autrey (Mountain Brook, Ala.) tallied 5,332 points in the heptathlon to finish second at the meet behind Princeton's Andrei Iosivas, who registered 5,715 points. Autrey's performance was the third best in Navy history and his total and performance in the 60m hurdles were both IC4A qualifiers.
 
"We had some good people competing here," Cook added. "Princeton came in, and their coach is a former Olympian in the decathlon and someone who I have always looked up to as a mentor in a way. To have him come here and have his athlete qualify for nationals and our athletes do well with a few PRs. It is just fun to have the multis here. It gives those athletes a chance to show what their specialty is and not just at the conference level, but an early season meet."
 
Navy finished the day with 50 IC4A / ECAC qualifying times / marks with the women tallying 15 ECAC qualifiers and the men's team registering 35.
 
In addition to Halbert, Higgins, and Taylor combining for five ECAC qualifiers during the pentathlon, Navy registered six ECAC qualifying times and four qualifying marks. Helen West (Pinehurst, N.C.) clocked a time of 56.92 in the 400m, while Kelly Murray (Fort Washington, Pa.) crossed the finish line in the 800m with a time of 2:13.94. In the mile, Ellie Abraham (Brookings, S.D.), Jessica Nangle (South Hampton, Pa.), and Winter Boese (Clark, Colo.) registered ECAC qualifying times of 4:53.94, 4:57.46, and 4:58.16, respectively. Emily Boutin (Chicopee, Mass.) rounded out the qualifying times with a 9:48.75 in the 3,000m.
 
Molly Chapman (Leesburg, Va.) notched an ECAC height of 1.71m (5-07.25) in the high jump. Charlene Morke (Isanti, Minn.), Stephanie Jacobs (Belleville, Ill.), and Alayna Schloeder (Rockford, Minn.) each recorded ECAC heights in the pole vault with Morke and Jacobs registering a height of 3.80m (12-05.50), while Schloeder posted a jump of 3.65m (11-11.75).
 
On the men's side, Jacques Guillaume (Jacksonville, Fla.) clocked IC4A qualifying times in the 200m (22.21) and the 400m (48.59), while Jonathan Simmons (Oakland, Calif.) and Ryan Harris (Corpus Christi, Texas) posted times of 1:04.25 and 1:04.60 in the 500m, respectively.
 
The Midshipmen posted 14 IC4A qualifying times in the individual distance events. Greyson Gravitt (Flower Mound, Texas) clocked a time of 1:53.68 in the 800m. Ashwin Briggs (Pickerington, Ohio), Sean Casey (Vienna, Va.), and Ian Bartlett (Fairfield, Conn.) posted IC4A qualifying times between 2:23.51 and 2:24.73 in the 1,000m run. The one-mile run saw Alex Rizzo (Bronxville, N.Y.), David Nelsen (Chandler, Ariz.), Brett Brady (Phoenix, Ariz.), John Bowers (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.), Elliott Schultz (Charlotte, N.C.), and Luke Murphy (Tulsa, Okla.) all posted qualifying times. Rizzo's time of 4:00.98 was a Wesley A. Brown Field House facility record and ranked third in Navy history. Miguel Mathias (Nekoosa, Wisc.) paced IC4A qualifiers Sam Keeny (Annapolis, Md.), Mitchell Rome (Dallas, Pa.), and Garrison Clark (Severna Park, Md.) with his time of 8:07.87 in the 3,000m run.
 
Brahmir Vick (Middletown, Del.) posted a pair of IC4A qualifying times in the 60m hurdles, clocking a time of 8.00 in the prelims before trimming his time to 7.96 in the finals. Vick's finals time is the sixth best in Navy history, tying him with Clayton Thompson ('21).
 
Navy's relay teams combined for three IC4A times. The 4x400m relay clocked a time of 3:18.57, while the Mids had a pair of distance medley relay teams post times of 10:27.46 and 10:32.15.
 
Cole Bailey (Yukon, Okla.) qualified in the high jump with a height of 2.08m (6-09.75), while Charles Crispi (Staten Island, N.Y.), Walker Rudisaile (Marion, Texas), and Charles Dever (Thornton, Pa.) each posted IC4A heights of 4.85m (15-11.00) in the pole vault.
 
The horizontal jumps saw Nahshon Houston (Kansas City, Kan.) and Sebasteon Allen (East Orange, N.J.) register IC4A qualifiers. Houston posted a distance of 7.23m (23-08.75) in the long jump, while Allen produced a distance of 14.81m 48-07.25 in the triple jump.
 
Navy posted four qualifying distances in the weight throw. Joshua Boamah (San Diego, Calif.) paced quartet of throwers with a distance of 18.80m (61-08.25). Jonathan Harding (Lafayette, La.), Collin Greene (Elkridge, Md.), and Sam Kwatkosky (Ocala, Fla.) each finished with qualifiers on the day.
 
Navy returns to action next weekend as the Midshipmen travel to Fairfax, Va. for the annual Patriot Games hosted by George Mason. The meet is slated for Friday and Saturday, Jan. 28-29 at the George Mason Field House.