Records continued to fall for the Penn State women's track and field team this weekend at the Penn State National inside the Horace Ashenfelter III Indoor Track at the Multi-sport Facility.

The meet showcased more than 40 teams and produced more than 40 NCAA championship qualifying performances, in the largest and most competitive meet Penn State has run this season. Things also began to come together for Penn State as head coach Beth Alford-Sullivan's team continued to improve.

"It was an awesome weekend," Alford-Sullivan said. "We just had a blast. The facility, the crowd and the teams, everything was just so exciting. We really capitalized on it. The team really stepped up and out preformed themselves, way more than I was expecting."

The Lions set three new school records during the two-day event. On Friday night, the distance medley relay team set the school record at 11 minutes, 14.78 seconds while coming in third behind Villanova and Tennessee. On Saturday both the 400-meter and 800 meter school records fell.

Senior Shana Cox set both the Penn State and facility records in the 400 event, while automatically qualifying for NCAA championships with a time of 52.31 seconds. Senior Briene Simmons set a new Penn State mark in the 800-meter run with a time of two minutes, 7.40 seconds.

This weekend marked the return of Cox, a four-time All-American who had been held out of Penn State's previous two home meets for more training time after a long summer season running for the U.S. National team.

"To execute my race and really learn how to run a 400 is something I kind of had a little bit of a problem with last year indoors," Cox said. "I want to get to the same spot where I was outdoors in terms of effectively executing my race."

The performance of the weekend came from the 4 x 400-meter relay team, which overcame both a huge early lead by Tennessee and a dropped baton to win the race.

The relay looked lost after junior Gayle Hunter and Simmons bobbled the first baton hand off. Simmons recovered however to close the gap for Cox to take over the race in the third leg. Cox ran her 400-meter split in less than 52 seconds, gaining a lead for anchor leg runner, sophomore Aleesha Barber. Barber held off a late charge by Asia Washington of Virginia Tech to preserve the win.