COLLEGE STATION — Shantel Swift and Stephanie Wangui both raced to third-place finishes to lead the UTSA women's track & field team at Saturday's Texas A&M Team Invitational.
Swift clocked the second-fastest 400 meters performance in program history when she circled the Gilliam Indoor Track & Field Stadium banked oval two times in a career-best 56.03 en route to a bronze medal. That was 37 one-hundredths of a second better than her previous personal record of 56.40 established at last season's Conference USA Championships final. Baylor's Raena Rhone (54.32) and TCU's Tiffany Terry (54.67) finished ahead of the junior from San Antonio.
Meanwhile, Wangui recorded a time of 2:14.75 in the 800m, which was her second top three finish to open the campaign, and that was just 20 one-hundredths of a second behind Baylor's Maggie Montoya, who won the event in 2:14.55.
The Roadrunners accounted for 34.5 points at the one-day scored meet and that was good for eighth in the nine-team field. Baylor got past event host Texas A&M for the team title with 118.5 points.
UTSA will return to action in two weeks at the Howie Ryan Invitational & Multis. The two-day meet is scheduled to get underway on Friday, Jan. 30, in Houston.