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National Champions!

A Championship-Winning Run Women’s relay team claims a national title in a record-setting, All-American performance.
photo of national champion relay team HISTORIC FINISH: The indoor relay team of Megan Bell, Susan Bansbach, Kate Issac, and Madeline O’Connell (left to right) captured a national title this spring, the first for a relay team in University history. (Photograph: Athletics and Recreation)By Scott Sabocheck

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The women’s track and field program has a new milestone to add to a long history of success.

The women’s 4-by-400-meter relay team of Madeline O’Connell ’23, Kate Isaac ’24, Megan Bell ’25, and Susan Bansbach ’23 claimed the Division III national title this spring in a record-setting performance at the indoor track and field championships in Birmingham, Alabama

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The first national title for a relay squad in Yellowjacket history, the performance marks the ninth national title in Rochester women’s track and field team history and is the first since Kylee Bartlett ’19 won the heptathlon title outdoors at the 2018 championships.

Finishing with a time of 3:44.84, the team established a new Division III championship meet record and smashed the Rochester school record by more than three seconds—a record that had been set by a slightly different Yellowjacket lineup at the regional track meet the week before.

O’Connell led off for the Yellowjackets and handed off to Isaac. Running third was Bell, and Bansbach ran the anchor leg.

All four runners earned All-American status, with Bansbach picking up her ninth All-American honor and O’Connell picking up her fourth.