With two top-five finishes and three top-10 finishes, the Mustang’s track and field team had an impressive showing at this past weekend’s Texas Relays in Austin.

On Friday, sophomore Simone Du Toit won the discus with a throw of 53.61m. She is now third in the discus event in National Collegiate Atheletic Association’s season standings. She beat her previous season-best throw, 51.13m, which she earned at the recent Bobby Lane Invitational.

Her results at the Invitational earned her a co-Conference USA Athlete of the Week honor last week. Also on Friday, sophomore Victoria Leks had her outdoor season-best mark of 1.71m. 

Her score is only three-hundredths of a meter better than her Bobby Lane Invitational mark.
On Saturday, Du Toit’s throw of 16.00m gave her a fifth place finish in the shot put. With a time of 4:41.20, freshman Klara Bodinson came in tenth place in the 1500-meter run.

The Mustangs’ distance medley relay team finished in fifth place with a time of 11:33.57.

Next up, SMU will head to Walnut, Calif. for the Mt. Sac Relays that begin on April 15. At last year’s event, Du Toit and Leks both had impressive showings. Du Toit cleared 16 meters for the first time in her career, while Leks cleared 1.80 meters in the high jump for the first time in her career.