The Grand View women's track & field team won four events and hit two national qualifying marks at the Wartburg Triangular Friday and Saturday in Waverly.

Val Veiock (West Des Moines, Iowa) improved both of her previous national qualifying marks on Saturday. The senior won both the shot put and the weight throw with NAIA automatic qualifying distances (14.02m shot put/16.93m weight throw). Veiock's mark in the shot put is tops in the MCC and also #7 in the NAIA and her mark in the weight throw is second in the MCC (behind teammate Jena Krebs) and ranks #3 in the NAIA.

Senior Holly Anthony (Morongo Valley, Calif.) took first place in the pentathlon on Friday and finished with 2,756 points. GV took the top two spots in the 800m run with freshman Kennedy King (Davenport, Iowa) winning in 2:23.72 and teammate Katie Roberts (Ankeny, Iowa) runner-up in 2:25.89.

The ladies had runner-up finishes from senior Jasmine Nielsen (Denver, Iowa) in the 3000m run (11:34.66) and in the Distance Medley Relay (Natalie Potts-Kaleigha MacDougall-Kimberly Teno-Christa Nordgren) (13:46.34). Nordgren also placed in the 3000m and came in third (11:54.23).

GV had three more third place finishes in the field events – freshman Christanne Middleton (Walker, Mo.) in the high jump (1.50m), sophomore Tanner Werthmann (Davenport, Iowa) in the long jump (4.67m), and senior Jena Krebs (Washington, Iowa) in the weight throw (15.81m).

The Vikings next compete at the Grinnell Invitational this Saturday, Feb. 7.