NU's Greg Peters ran a leg of the men's 4X100 relay.
Eagles Set Marks in Bellingham Meet
BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Chelsea Miller and the women's 4X800 relay recorded best times today at the Western Washington University Twilight Meet at Civic Stadium.
Miller, running in the women's 100m dash improved her time to 12.76 as she tied for second in the event. Her previous time was 12.93 and her new time moves her from 7th to 4th best in the conference this season.
The women's 4X800 relay team crushed their former best time of 10:00.96 set last weekend at the Spike Arlt meet in Ellensburg by nearly 14 seconds as they finished first in a time of 9:46.13. The team consisted of Shayna Prause, Rachael Harris, Lindsey Wagner and Paige DeLapp. DeLapp also finished 5th in the 800m run with her time of 2:21.94 improving her personal best by nearly 3 seconds.
In other women's events, Lindsey Wessa cleared 3.00m in the pole vault and finished 11th in the event. Megan Groff made the height of 2.55m, tying her for 16th. Rachael Harris was 8th in the long jump with a distance of 4.69m. Jessica Kneip came in 5th in the shot put with a put of 11.04m, teammate Alisha Larion 7th (9.82m) and Cadie Kneip 9th (8.90m). Jessica came back in the discus throw and took 4th place with a distance of 35.26m (8th best in conference) while sister Cadie took 6th with a throw of 31.74m and Alisha Larion in at 7th with her distance of 28.57m. Jessica and Caide Kneip finished 6th and 7th in the hammer throw with throws of 35.39m and 32.33m respectively.
In the women's javelin, Shayna Prause hit a distance of 39.02m, taking 3rd place and Katie Campbell finished in 5th with her throw of 36.48m.
For the men, Jimmy Reed took 6th in the 100m dash with his time of 11.25, just .01 of a second off his CCC 3rd best time of 11.24. The men's 5000m run found Seth Bridges and Alex Croutworst coming in 12th and 13th. Bridges ran a 16:13.75 while Croutworst finished the course in 16:15.58. Jason Waltman continued his consistency in the 110m hurdles taking 7th place in a time of 16.14.
Tyler Hart finished second in the 3000m steeplechase with his time of 9:52.86 nearly 7 seconds better than his previous best time of 9:58.77, 5th best in the CCC this spring. The men's 4X100 relay, made up of Jimmy Reed, Greg Peters, Jason Waltman, and Tyler Hart took 4th place with a time of 46.02. Their time improved from their best performance of 46.26 established at the Spike Arlt meet last weekend. Peters tied for 7th in the high jump event clearing a height of 1.78m. Jason Waltman tripled jumped 12.32m and took 6th and then finished 11th in the shot put with his distance of 11.68m. Waltman took 12th in the discus throw with a toss of 33.25 right ahead of teammate Luke Fischer who hit a distance of 32.44m. Tyler Petty was 10th in the hammer throw with a 36.65m throw bettering his previous best by nearly 10 meters (26.62m) and 11th in the javelin with a distance of 38.59m with Jason Waltman taking 12th with his throw of 35.33m.
"I think we're coming into form at the right time," said coach Preston Brashers following the meet. "There were a lot of good performances, notably Chelsea (Miller) in the 100, Paige (DeLapp) in the 800 and Tyler (Hart) in the steeplechase." Brashers continued, "Also, Alex (Croutworst) made an impressive comeback from the injury he suffered this fall and winter. The women's 4x8 team ran well, but it would have taken a near perfect effort to qualify for the NAIA's. We'll rest up next week and get ready to go for conference," concluded coach Brashers.
The event attracted teams from Seattle Pacific, the Evergreen State College, Southern California Track Club, Simon Fraser, St. Martin's University, Club Northwest and others. This was the final track meet for the Eagles as they will now prepare for the Cascade Conference Championships which take place May 7, 8, and 9 in Gresham, Oregon on the Mt. Hood CC track.