SPOKANE, Wash. – The Warriors saw five records fall and three provisional standards hit at the Whitworth Twilight on Thursday. A pair of LC relays highlighted the day, with the women’s 4x100m and men’s 4x800m teams setting school records and qualifying for nationals.
LC State student-athletes braved the cold and rainy conditions throughout the day in Spokane.
“Pretty excited about our performances this evening, despite the cold that tends to hamper us,” Head Coach Mike Collins said. “I am really excited about the relays that qualified today with B standards. It really shows that our program is starting to get a little but deeper when it comes to having the quality of athletes that can put those types of performances together.
“A couple other things I want to point out are London (Kirk) getting really close to the national standard in the 400m, and Clayton (VanDyke) who led off the 4x800m and came back and won the 1,500m. He ran the open 400m and improved his personal-best in that. He was also on a 4x400m team. Jennah (Carpenter) also PRd in the long jump after being part of the 4x100m, so a lot of good things today.”
THE WOMEN
The women’s 4x100m relay team had a successful day with a school record and national-qualifying time of 48.25 to take second in the event. Ashley Britt led off the race, with Lewiston natives Anika Grogan, Jennah Carpenter and Madigan Kelly taking the other three legs.
Carpenter didn’t stop there. The freshman went on to break her own school record in the long jump with a mark of 5.39m to earn a victory in the event.
Kelly was in action in the 100m hurdles and won the event with a time of 14.46, then set a personal-record with a 100m dash time of 12.91. Grogan won the 400m dash at 57.59, and Britt won the 400m hurdles with a B standard time (1:03.59).
Sara Hathaway was third in the 100m hurdles (15.43), Makayla McIntosh placed sixth (16.58) and Keelyn Pilcher was seventh (16.59). Alexa Horsley took sixth in the 400m at 1:03.52. Hathaway placed eighth in the 100m dash (13.07), McIntosh was 11
th (13.40) and Sydnie Ziwna was 12
th (13.60). Pilcher finished sixth in the 400m hurdles (1:07.63).
Javelin thrower Kea Stieglitz finished fourth in the field with a mark of 37.86m.
LC’s 4x800m relay team of Geraldin Correa, Rylee Brown, Maja Plaznik and Brooklyn Shell finished its race with a time of 9:43.76. Correa finished second in the 800m with a photo-finish time of 2:20.144.
In distance events, Emily Adams took fifth in the 1,500m (4:49.22). Correa was ninth (4;51.58) and Shell was 15
th (5:03.97). In the 3,000m steeplechase, Grace McCormick finished second (12:36.06) and Rainey Gallup was fifth (13:42.66).
Cassidy Henderson hit a PR in the hammer throw with a mark of 33.30m to finish 13th. She was 12
th in the discus at 28.74m. McIntosh took sixth in the shot put (9.11m) and Desiree Winslow hit a height of 2.70m in the pole vault to take third.
THE MEN
The men’s 4x800m relay hit a B standard with a time of 7:46.52, which is the fourth-fastest in the NAIA as of Thursday and a program record. The team of Clayton VanDyke, Dillon Dawson, Conner May and Griffin Parsells accomplished the feat.
The group was in action in the 1,500m as well, with VanDyke winning the event with a time of 3:56.39. Parsells was 10
th (4:04.37) and May was 19
th (4:10.86) to round out the top 20.
Ian Gardom shattered the LC record in the triple jump with a leap of 13.03m to finish second. He took second in the 110m hurdles (17.05). London Kirk bested his own record in the 400m dash with a time of 48.73 to take second.
The combination of Kirk, VanDyke, Carter Gordon and Ike Hopper teamed up to run the third-fastest 4x400m relay in LC history. The quartet finished second with a time of 3:23.02.
In the 5,000m, Cole Olsen led the way with a first-place finish at 14:49.43. Brady Nelsen was fifth (15:38.48, Chase Barrow took sixth (15:30. 82) and Connor Turpin rounded out the top 10 (15:49.63).
VanDyke also ran the 400m and ran a personal-best time of 50.68 to finish fifth, and Gordon was sixth at 51.01. Gordon placed sixth in the 200m dash (23.28).
In the 3,000m steeplechase, Brycen Brown ran a personal-best time of 9:52.70 to finish third. Hopper won the 400m hurdles with a time of 55.25.
Gardom was also in action in the 100m dash. He was eighth (11.91).
Next on the schedule for LC State Track and Field is the Cascade Conference Multi Championships on April 21-22. The final meet of the regular season will be the Tom Gage Classic in Missoula on May 7.
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