MALIBU, Calif. — Competing in the final guaranteed meet of the indoor track season, the Pepperdine women's indoor track team heads to Spokane, Wash. for the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track and Field Championships this weekend.

Held at The Podium indoor track facility for the second straight year, the two-day meet begins Friday at 10 a.m. PT and will run through Saturday. The final day of action also begins at 10 a.m. PT and will conclude with an awards ceremony at 1:30 p.m. PT. This weekend's meet will be livestreamed on RunnerSpace, albeit behind a paywall. All pertinent links can be found on the track team's schedule page on pepperdinewaves.com.

Pepperdine will send 17 runners to the conference meet, which historically has been where most school records are set. At this meet last year, the Waves set the distance medley relay and the 5K. So far, the Waves have run 20 new top-10 times and four school records in the distance events and the 4x400-meter relay. Pepperdine aims to score its first points at the conference indoor meet and improve on its 11th-place finish from a year ago.

Sophomore Lizzy Crawford, who has set school records in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter runs, will look to go sub-17 in the 5K. Her school-record-breaking time of 17:02.55 at altitude ranks fourth in the conference this year, giving Pepperdine its best chance at its first-ever podium finisher.

Junior Caroline Graham will also look to lower her school record in the 800-meter dash after running a 2:17.25 in the season opener last month. Fresh off breaking one of the program's oldest school records, the new-look 4x400-meter relay squad of Lexi Thomas, Maddy Ortman, Isabella Reyes and Brittany Rivas look to improve on their 3:56.01 time they ran in Reno two weeks ago.

Elsewhere in the entry list, this week will be the indoor swan song for senior sprinter Kaley Peterson, who holds the school record in the 200-meter dash and ranks second in the 60-meter dash. She is Pepperdine's fastest runner in both events this year.

Another storyline for the team is the return of Hannah Bruner in the distance events. Making her return to indoor track after studying abroad last year, the junior has the team's fastest mile time (a post-converted 5:06.33) and the second-fastest 800-meter dash time (2:19.42), both of which were run at altitude in Reno. She is entered in the mile and the distance medley relay team, which features her, Graham, Lia Cooper and Ashley Eagan. With improvements in nearly every leg of that relay, last year's school-record time of 12:24.86 could be lowered this weekend, too.

MOVING ON UP (INDOOR)
A running list of all the top-10 marks set this season. Altitude and track conversions are not applied in the times listed below.

• 60-meter dash:

  • Ava Maly, 8.02, 8th

• 200-meter dash:

  • Ava Maly, 26.35, 5th

• 400-meter dash:

  • Lexi Thomas, 1:00.00, 4th

  • Brittany Rivas, 1:00.27, 5th

  • Jenna Parsio, 1:01.59, 8th

• 800-meter dash:

  • Caroline Graham, 2:17.25, school record

  • Hannah Bruner, 2:20.06, 3rd

  • Ashley Eagan, 2:21.81, 4th

  • Riley Burgess, 2:27.81, 9th

• Mile:

  • Hannah Bruner, 5:12.10, 3rd

  • Caroline Graham, 5:12.53, 4th

  • Ashley Eagan, 5:22.21, 5th

• 3,000 meters:

  • Lizzy Crawford, 10:00.95, school record

  • Eden Mittelsdorf, 10:23.92, 3rd

• 5,000 meters:

  • Lizzy Crawford, 17:25.81, school record

  • Eden Mittelsdorf, 18:18.41, 2nd

• 4x400-meter relay:

  • Thomas/Reyes/Ortman/Rivas, 3:56.01, school record

  • Reyes/Thomas/Ortman/Rivas, 4:04.48, 3rd

• 60-meter hurdles:

  • Brittany Rivas, 9.77, 5th

  • Lauren Rocco, 10.07, T-6th