The Carthage College women's track and field team (61-12 indoor record) finished third at the 2009 College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Indoor Track and Field Championship at the Illinois Wesleyan University Shirk Center in Bloomington, Ill. Illinois Wesleyan won its second-consecutive CCIW indoor title and second overall with 202 points, followed by North Central College second at 176, Carthage third at 103, Augustana College (Ill.) fourth at 86, Wheaton College (Ill.) fifth at 49, Millikin University sixth at 23, Elmhurst College seventh at 13 and North Park University eighth with 11 points.
Carthage's Morgan Wiechmann (Fr., Sleepy Hollow, Ill./Carpentersville—Dundee-Crown) finished second in the 3,000-meter run (10:30.36), while finishing fourth in the one-mile run (5:10.70). Ashley Johnson (Sr., Romeoville, Ill.) finished second in the 800-meter run (2:18.32), as did Julie Rendino (Sr., McHenry, Ill./East) in the shot put (42-2 ¼). Stephanie Moy (So., Des Plaines, Ill./Maine West) finished third in the pentathlon (2,892 points). Ashura Jenkins (So., Aurora, Ill./Christian) was fourth in the 55-meter dash (7.40), as was Shacuána Gaines (So., Gurnee, Ill./Warren Township) in the triple jump (35-3 ¼), Mindy Harrington (So., Spring Grove, Ill./Richmond-Burton) in the shot put (41-3) and Sarah Thompson (Fr., Byron, Ill.) in the pentathlon (2,836 points).
