Seena Frantz earned an NAIA Automatic Qualifying mark in the 5,000 today.
Frantz, Roudebush Nab NAIA Auto Marks
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. -- Southern Oregon's Seena Frantz and Levi Roudebush both secured NAIA automatic qualifying marks at today's San Francisco State Distance Carnival.
Frantz, an All-American on SOU's women's cross country team, finished 14th in her section of the 5,000 with a time of 17:46.54 to easily best the Automatic standard. Roudebush finished third in the 1,500 with a time of 3:51.55 to stamp his ticket to the National Championships.
Also for the Raiders, Laurie Stoutenburgh (38:59.93) and Kristen Juveland (39:22.25) both earned NAIA Provisional Qualifying marks in the 10,000.
Other results for the SOU women included Tara Krempley (18:29.94) finished eighth and Anya Martinez (18:35.27) finished 10th in their section of the 5,000 and Kelly Clark finished 13th in 12:08.56 in the 3,000 steeplechase.
The Raiders had nine runners compete in the men's 5,000. Zach Elliott finished fourth in his section of the 5,000 with a time of 15:16.82 and was followed by Hector Aleman (sixth, 15:19.91), Andrew Milne (12th, 15:25.85), Josh Seitz (16th, 15:31.96) and Ruben Martinez (20th, 15:39.72). In the other section of the 5,000, Brett Hornig finished fifth in 15:47.02, Jerrod Puckett finished seventh in 15:53.51 and Nik Walker finished 18th in 16:05.33.
Also for the SOU men, Wendell Sells finished third in the 100 (11.23) and fifth in the 200 (23.26), Peter Stice (2:00.88) finished seventh in his section of the 800 and Kurtis Semph (2:04.51) finished sixth in his section of the 800 and Colin McRoberts finished sixth in the 3,000 steeplechase in 9:54.56.