EAST LANSING, Mich. — No athlete in Big Ten Conference women’s track and field history had amassed more first-day points in the heptathlon than University of Wisconsin senior Deanna Latham posted on Friday at the league championships.
By the time the event concluded on Saturday, the conference record in the event had fallen — but it wasn’t Latham that took it down.
Minnesota junior Jess Herauf delivered the best effort in each of the final three events to surge past Latham and win the heptathlon with a Big Ten record of 6,014 points.
Latham was second with a UW-record 5,914 points, just shy of the previous conference mark of 5,922 set by Purdue’s Cathey Tyree in 1987.