Updike Breaks School Record in Eugene
OREGON RELAYS RESULTS NNU INVITE RESULTS
EUGENE, Ore. – Eastern Oregon University track and field student-athlete, Isaac Updike, won the men’s steeplechase at the Oregon Relays with a school record-breaking time 9:06.33 Saturday.
Updike beat Tony De Augustine’s 20-year-old school record, 9:07.24, set in 1992. Updike was listed third on the school’s all-time list prior to the race with a personal best time of 9:15.30. The sophomore raced to the third-best time in the NAIA this season, and easily qualified for the NAIA National Championships.
Fellow Mountaineer, Kody Coxen, finished fifth with a time of 9:25.34. His time is 13th in the NAIA, and was an NAIA provisional mark. Coxen is now ninth on the EOU all-time list.
At the Northwest Nazarene University Invitational in Nampa, Idaho, leading the way were sprinters Kadie Booth and Grant Wilson. Booth running the first 400-meter race of her career recorded a time of 59.07 seconds to collect a runner-up finish and the number six performance in school history. She backed up that race with a 25.86 200 meters, another runner-up finish and number six all-time mark in that event.
Wilson ran the same double, finishing second in the 200 and third in the 400. He turned in times of 22.58 (No. 12 all-time) and 50.55 (No. 24 all-time).
Laura Hansen battled to a third place finish in the 3000 meter steeplechase, running 11:58.41 and moving her to number five on the events all-time list.
Maddison Stapleton and Sarah Beck used the warm weather to improve their best pole vaults of the season. Stapleton won the event clearing a height of 11 feet, 1.75 inches. Beck scaled 9 feet, 8 inches, a mark that moves her to equal ninth on the all-time list and picked her up a fourth place finish in the event.
Robbie Haynie continued his hot spring finishing third in the 100 meters running 11.05. That moves him to number nine on the all-time list in the men’s 100. He backed that up with a third in the 110 hurdles, 15.38, and wins in the pole vault, 16 feet, 10.75 inches, and high jump, 6 feet, 8.75 inches. He added a runner-up finish in the triple jump, 45 feet, 11.75 inches, and a third place finish in the javelin, 182 feet.
Brian Wickham moved to the number seven spot on the all-time list in the discus with a winning the event with a toss of 151 feet, 9 inches.
Jake Wilcox collected the Mountaineer other event win in the shot put with a heave of 49 feet, 7.75 inches.
The Mountaineers return to the track Friday and Saturday at the Pacific University Twilight in Forest Grove, Ore.