HIGHLAND HEIGHTS, Ky. - One Midway standout clinched a return trip to the NAIA Outdoor National Championships while another earned multiple wins for the second week in a row Saturday.

Emerson VanScoy hit the national 'A' qualifying standard in pole vault while Trinity Gottler took first in three different events as the Midway women's outdoor track and field team recorded 59 points to finish fourth at the Northern Kentucky Invitational.

The Eagles had the highest team finish of any NAIA school in the 15-team field with first place NKU (203.5 points) and third-place Indiana University Indianpolis (78.5) both being from the NCAA Division-I ranks.

VanScoy, who was the national pole vault runner-up during indoor season, topped out at 3.80 meters on Saturday, eclipsing the minimum 'A' standard height of 3.78.

She finished second overall to Mia Boule of D-I Miami University (Ohio), who cleared 3.95. VanScoy also just narrowly missed the program record of 3.84 meters, set by Nevaeh Brown in 2022.

Two other Eagles tied for fifth in the event, with Maddi Reed and Cate Coppola both clearing 3.50.

VanScoy gives Midway two Outdoor National Championship qualifiers so far in 2026, with Gottler having already earned a spot in javelin, one of three events she took first in Saturday.

Aside from throwing 40.81 in javelin, she also won with a school-record 12.54-meter throw in shot put and a 40.50-meter toss in discus.

This was another standout showing by Gottler, who won in both javelin and discus at the Centre Invitational last Saturday.

Kaily Bussard scored in discus as well with a seventh-place throw of 29.90.

The best finish on the track side was recorded by the 4x100-meter relay team of Kashlynn Rice, Lillian Alcorn, Malene Obermayer and Emilee Cecil, who finished in 50.86 seconds.

Cecil and Rice both had fifth-place individual races, Rice in the 400 hurdles (14.20), Cecil in the 100 (12.81).

The Eagles will be back in Danville, Ky. for the second time in three weeks for the Centre Twilight on Friday.