CLOVIS, Calif.  – The Nevada track and field team earned three gold medals at the final day of the Mountain West Championship today. Karoline Sauer paced the 400m hurdles, Nicola Ader topped the high jump and Alex Bohlman won the javelin on the way to a fourth place team finish for the Pack. This is the first time since joining the Mountain West that Nevada has had three individual champions in the same year, and is tied for the best team finish since joining the Mountain West.
 
Nevada finished with a team total of 78.5 points, a strong improvement from last season's eighth place finish with 57.5. Prior to today's three event victories, the Wolf Pack had won just four outdoor events since joining the Mountain West.
 
The finish ties for the Wolf Pack's best Mountain West finish. The Pack took fourth with 92.5 points in 2017.
 
Sauer became the first from Nevada to win an event in back-to-back years, topping the 400m hurdles field with a time of 59.94. Not far behind her was sophomore Agnese Mulatero with a personal record time of 1:02.88 to finish sixth. The duo contributed 13 points to the Wolf Pack's team total.
 
While Sauer was topping the 400m hurdles, Ader was cruising in the high jump. Ader won the event, becoming the first from Nevada to win an event during the indoor and outdoor seasons of the same year, since the Pack joined the Mountain West. Ader advanced to the NCAA Indoor National Championship earlier this year, where she was named a Second-Team All American. Junior Delaney Gosse tied for eighth in the event with a personal record mark of 5' 7.25" (1.71 m).
 
On top of the three individual champions, the Pack saw a 19-year-old school record fall as well. The 4x400m relay squad of freshman Emily Costello, sophomore Lauren Green, Sauer and sophomore Eliza McCall took fifth with a time of 3:43.95. The previous record of 3:44.89 was set in 2000, just months after Costello was born.
 
Ader and Sauer were not the first to win an event today. Sophomore Alex Bohlman took topped the javelin in the first event of the day.
 
Bohlman topped the preliminary flight of the javelin with a throw of 147' 5" (44.93 meters), before reaching 148' 11" (45.39 m) in the finals to take home the gold medal. At last year's conference championship, Bohlman took home a bronze medal after a 146' 8" (44.71 m) throw.
 
Bohlman is the first member of the Pack to win the javelin since the Wolf Pack joined the Mountain West for the 2012-13 season. The Pack has had a top-five finisher in each of the last five years, but Bohlman is the first to break through and take the gold.
 
In addition to her gold medal performance in the high jump, Ader moved up in the 100m hurdles all time list, finishing sixth with a time of 13.89 seconds. The time moves her up eighth all-time at Nevada, and the sixth place finish gave the Pack three more team points.
 
Freshman Emily Costello moved up in the Nevada all-time list as well, moving into fourth all-time in the 400m. Costello clocked a time of 55.33 seconds to finish seventh and earn two points for the Pack.
 
Sophomore Eliza McCall passed two runners in the final 100m of the 800m race to finish fifth with a personal record time of 2:09.88, adding four points to Nevada's total.
 
The Wolf Pack's 4x100m relay squad too sixth with a time of 47.35 seconds to add three more points to the team total.
 
In the triple jump, freshman Gabby Fraser advanced to the finals, finishing ninth with a jump of 38' 6.50" (11.75 m).
 
Next up for the Wolf Pack is the NCAA West Prelims in Sacramento, Calif. in two weeks. Heading into this weekend, Nevada has seven athletes in the top 48 of the west region, which would land them in the preliminary meet. The heptathlon is not included in the preliminary round, with the top 24 nationally advancing straight to the NCAA National Championships in Austin, Texas next month. Heading into the weekend, Ader sits in the top 15 of the heptathlon and would qualify for the event.