Iowa senior Tionna Tobias from Winslow Township recorded the 3rd-highest pentathlon score in Hawkeyes history Friday at a meet in Iowa City.
Tobias scored 4,049 points and won the one-day, five-event test at the Larry Wieczorek Invitational at the Iowa Rec Building.
Tobias’s score is 3rd-highest in Iowa history, behind Jenny Kimbro [4,269 in 2020] and Tria Simmons [4,200 in 2019].
In the first event of the day, Tobias ran 8.37 in the 60-meter hurdles, scoring 1,046 points. She scored 806 in the high jump [5-5 ¼], 577 points in the shot put [35-2], 856 in the long jump [19-9] and 764 in the 800 [2:24.43].
Tobias won by 295 points over teammate Annie Wirth, who scored 3,754.
The high jump and long jump were also held on Friday, and Tobias did not compete in those open events, but she is entered in the hurdles, scheduled for 5:25 p.m. Saturday. Tobias is No. 10 in NCAA Division 1 with her 8.19 from last weekend in Iowa City
Her previous lifetime-best pentathlon score was 3,997 at last year’s Big Ten Championships at SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, where she placed 3rd – 49 points behind Millville’s Bryanna Craig of Purdue.
Tobias’s lifetime best is now three points higher than Craig’s lifetime best. Tobias has a 5,640 lifetime best in the two-day outdoor heptathlon from her win at outdoor Big Tens in Bloomington, Ind., in May. Craig was 2nd in that meet with a PR of 5,460. Craig hasn’t done a multi yet this winter.
From the Backstretch by Reuben Frank 