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Schmitz Sets Indoor Mile School Record at Meyo Invite
1/31/2026 4:18:00 PM | Women's Cross Country, Women's Track & Field
The sophomore is the first Gopher to ever run under 4:35 indoors.
MINNEAPOLIS – For the first time the University of Minnesota women's track and field team saw a sub 4:35 indoor mile with Isabelle Schmitz putting forth a school-record performance at the Meyo Invite on January 31. Schmitz led a group of Gophers that set five different program top 10 performances across four events over the two-day meet in South Bend, Ind. The Maroon and Gold also picked up 17 event victories at the Jack Johnson Classic in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday at the University Fieldhouse.
MEYO INVITE RECAP
At the Meyo Invite on Saturday Schmitz came across the finish line in 4:34.67 to become the fastest Gopher ever in the event. The sophomore broke the indoor record that had stood since Abby Kohut-Jackson's 4:35.36 at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. Schmitz's time goes down as the third-fastest in the Big Ten this season and the 16th-fastest in the NCAA this season.
In the women's 800m just a few minutes prior to Schmitz it was Zoie Dundon who posted a lifetime best in the 800m to move to No. 2 all-time in Minnesota history. Dundon's 2:03.88 made her just the second Gopher to go under 2:04 and was just shy of Brooke Jaworski's 2:03.48 school record that has stood since 2024. The redshirt junior's time catapults her to the No. 4 spot among collegiate runners and No. 3 in the Big Ten this year.
Back on Friday the Golden Gophers saw three program top 10 performances in South Bend, starting with the women's 5000m. Izzy Roemer and Taylor Isabel both put forth lifetime bests at the Meyo Invite. Roemer's 16:11.21 pushed the Chanhassen, Minn., native from the No. 10 spot at Minnesota to No. 5 all-time in the event. For Isabel, her 16:22.37 puts her name inside a program top 10 list for the first time in her Gopher career at No. 10.
Minnesota's Distance Medley Relay team also put down a historic time on Friday night. The quartet of Zoie Dundon, Hailey Anchor, Nadia Phillips and Isabelle Schmitz dropped the second-fastest DMR time in school history to win the Meyo Invite in a time of 11:03.78. The only faster DMR time in school history came back in 2025 at the Big Ten Indoor Championships when Schmitz and Dundon were joined by Dyandra Gray and Erin Reidy to earn a conference bronze medal in a time of 11:02.42 in Indianapolis, Ind.
JACK JOHNSON CLASSIC RECAP
In the confines of the University Fieldhouse in Minneapolis, Anthonett Nabwe once again stood out as one of the nation's elite throwers in both the weight throw and the shot put. The redshirt junior launched a lifetime best weight throw of 24.28m (79-8) to improve on her NCAA No. 1 standing and followed that up with a season's best in the shot put at 17.18m (56-4 1/2) to capture two event victories on Friday. Nabwe's 24.28m throw is the 19th-furthest throw in women's NCAA Division I history (as of January 31) and only trails 2018 NCAA Champion Kaitlyn Long's school record by just nine centimeters.
Nabwe's 24.28m slots her in at No. 3 all-time among Big Ten weight throwers in conference history, only behind Long (24.37m | 79-11 1/2) and Olympian Sade Olatoye (24.46m | 80-3). Nabwe's victorious shot put mark of 17.18m (56-4 1/2) at the Jack Johnson Classic was just shy of her lifetime best of 17.23m (56-6 1/2) back in 2025. Nabwe sits at No. 7 nationally in the shot put, which makes her one of just two NCAA women's throwers to rank inside the top seven in both the weight throw and the shot put (Akaoma Odeluga, Ole Miss), as of January 31.
Minnesota had a number of unattached student-athletes competing at the Jack Johnson Classic, with 14 victories on Friday coming from that group. Most notably Zion Campbell matched his own University Fieldhouse facility record of 6.59 in the 60m to win the final over Olympian, and former teammate, Devin Augustine (6.68).
Two-time Big Ten champion Charles Godfred made his indoor long jump debut in 2026 with a winning leap of 7.78m (25-6 1/4). Triple jump All-American Hakeem Ford made his season debut in the triple jump with a winning mark of 15.69m (51-5 3/4) while Anthony Barmes posted a lifetime best in the men's weight throw to win at 21.54m (70-8).
Next week the women's track and field program will be once again split up between two meets. The Gopher Classic will be held at the University Fieldhouse on February 7, while another portion of the team will take their talents to the Fairgrounds Invitational in Indianapolis, Ind., at the Indiana Farm Bureau Fall Creek Pavilion, the same facility where the 2026 Big Ten Indoor Championships will take place at in late February.
For more information on the Gophers, continue to check back with GopherSports.com. Keep up with the University of Minnesota cross country and track and field team on X.com (Twitter) and Instagram (@GopherCCTF) and on Facebook, so you do not miss any content during the season.
MEYO INVITE RECAP
At the Meyo Invite on Saturday Schmitz came across the finish line in 4:34.67 to become the fastest Gopher ever in the event. The sophomore broke the indoor record that had stood since Abby Kohut-Jackson's 4:35.36 at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. Schmitz's time goes down as the third-fastest in the Big Ten this season and the 16th-fastest in the NCAA this season.
In the women's 800m just a few minutes prior to Schmitz it was Zoie Dundon who posted a lifetime best in the 800m to move to No. 2 all-time in Minnesota history. Dundon's 2:03.88 made her just the second Gopher to go under 2:04 and was just shy of Brooke Jaworski's 2:03.48 school record that has stood since 2024. The redshirt junior's time catapults her to the No. 4 spot among collegiate runners and No. 3 in the Big Ten this year.
Back on Friday the Golden Gophers saw three program top 10 performances in South Bend, starting with the women's 5000m. Izzy Roemer and Taylor Isabel both put forth lifetime bests at the Meyo Invite. Roemer's 16:11.21 pushed the Chanhassen, Minn., native from the No. 10 spot at Minnesota to No. 5 all-time in the event. For Isabel, her 16:22.37 puts her name inside a program top 10 list for the first time in her Gopher career at No. 10.
Minnesota's Distance Medley Relay team also put down a historic time on Friday night. The quartet of Zoie Dundon, Hailey Anchor, Nadia Phillips and Isabelle Schmitz dropped the second-fastest DMR time in school history to win the Meyo Invite in a time of 11:03.78. The only faster DMR time in school history came back in 2025 at the Big Ten Indoor Championships when Schmitz and Dundon were joined by Dyandra Gray and Erin Reidy to earn a conference bronze medal in a time of 11:02.42 in Indianapolis, Ind.
JACK JOHNSON CLASSIC RECAP
In the confines of the University Fieldhouse in Minneapolis, Anthonett Nabwe once again stood out as one of the nation's elite throwers in both the weight throw and the shot put. The redshirt junior launched a lifetime best weight throw of 24.28m (79-8) to improve on her NCAA No. 1 standing and followed that up with a season's best in the shot put at 17.18m (56-4 1/2) to capture two event victories on Friday. Nabwe's 24.28m throw is the 19th-furthest throw in women's NCAA Division I history (as of January 31) and only trails 2018 NCAA Champion Kaitlyn Long's school record by just nine centimeters.
Nabwe's 24.28m slots her in at No. 3 all-time among Big Ten weight throwers in conference history, only behind Long (24.37m | 79-11 1/2) and Olympian Sade Olatoye (24.46m | 80-3). Nabwe's victorious shot put mark of 17.18m (56-4 1/2) at the Jack Johnson Classic was just shy of her lifetime best of 17.23m (56-6 1/2) back in 2025. Nabwe sits at No. 7 nationally in the shot put, which makes her one of just two NCAA women's throwers to rank inside the top seven in both the weight throw and the shot put (Akaoma Odeluga, Ole Miss), as of January 31.
Minnesota had a number of unattached student-athletes competing at the Jack Johnson Classic, with 14 victories on Friday coming from that group. Most notably Zion Campbell matched his own University Fieldhouse facility record of 6.59 in the 60m to win the final over Olympian, and former teammate, Devin Augustine (6.68).
Two-time Big Ten champion Charles Godfred made his indoor long jump debut in 2026 with a winning leap of 7.78m (25-6 1/4). Triple jump All-American Hakeem Ford made his season debut in the triple jump with a winning mark of 15.69m (51-5 3/4) while Anthony Barmes posted a lifetime best in the men's weight throw to win at 21.54m (70-8).
Next week the women's track and field program will be once again split up between two meets. The Gopher Classic will be held at the University Fieldhouse on February 7, while another portion of the team will take their talents to the Fairgrounds Invitational in Indianapolis, Ind., at the Indiana Farm Bureau Fall Creek Pavilion, the same facility where the 2026 Big Ten Indoor Championships will take place at in late February.
For more information on the Gophers, continue to check back with GopherSports.com. Keep up with the University of Minnesota cross country and track and field team on X.com (Twitter) and Instagram (@GopherCCTF) and on Facebook, so you do not miss any content during the season.
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