Ball State University
NCAA Indoor Championships
Rogers Secures Silver in the Pentathlon at NCAA Indoor Championships
March 08, 2024 | Track & Field, Cardinal Varsity Club
BOSTON, Mass. -- Jenelle Rogers is bringing home the silver medal in the pentathlon after securing 4,430 points, a new Ball State indoor record. Entering the competition on Friday morning, Rogers was ranked 10th with a score of 4,163. Â
The meet began with the 60m hurdles where she finished 7th in 8.50. She continued to move up the leaderboard in the high jump as she hit a mark of 1.75m, just .01m off her personal best. Â
In the shot put, Rogers threw 13.96m, third among her competitors. Â
Heading into the long jump, Rogers had 2,724 points. She continued impressing her competitors, hitting a new indoor best mark of 6.28m. Â
After a day full of competing, the pentathlon wrapped up with the 800m. Rogers entered her last event with 3,661 points. In a hard-fought race, she ran a new indoor best time of 2:24.08 and secured the second-place finish among the best multis athletes in the world. Her final score of 4,430 points will place her as the highest scoring pentathlon athlete in Ball State history, surpassing Charity (Griffith) Hufnagel's record from last year of 4,315. Â
This was Rogers's second NCAA appearance. Her first appearance at this level occurred last year at the 2023 Outdoor Championships where she finished 5th in the heptathlon with a score of 6,018. Â
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