CORVALLIS, Ore. – The first weekend of the 2022 Cascade Collegiate Conference Track and Field Championship, presented by U.S. Bank, is set to begin Thursday. The Multi Events Championship kicks off at Eastern Oregon University in La Grande, Ore., with the rest of the championship meet taking place at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Ore., May 13-14.
Live results will be updated
HERE. Awards will be presented at the full meet at SOU in May. The top three finishers in each event will earn All-CCC honors and the top eight will accumulate points that go towards their teams' totals at the final meet in Ashland.
The men’s decathlon gets the meet going with the 100-meter dash as the first of the 10 events, starting at 11 a.m. Pacific on Thursday. The long jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meter events follow, starting 30 minutes after the conclusion of the previous event.
Friday gets started with the 100-meter high hurdles, followed by the discus, pole vault, and javelin, before the 1500-meter closes out the events.
Eleven men are set to compete in the event, including last year’s champion TJ Davis from EOU. Davis currently holds the second-best score in the NAIA, a 6949 that he earned at the Northwest Nazarene Invitational & Multi at the beginning of this month. He looks to defend his crown against a tough field, which sees College of Idaho’s Caleb Brown return, who last year took third and currently ranks sixth in the NAIA.
Also competing are Lewis-Clark State College’s Christian Bothwell (10
th in the NAIA), Ian Gardom and Caleb Moore; C of I’s Kendrik Caldwell and Lars Horning; UBC’s Egidio Cantarella and Dean Ciarniello; EOU’s Judson Mansfield (No. 7 in NAIA); and Oregon Tech’s Thomas Dodgen.
On the women’s side, the heptathlon is scheduled to start at 11:30 a.m., beginning with the 100-meter hurdles. The high jump, shot put and 200-meter follow on the first day, starting 30 minutes after the conclusion of the previous event.
Friday opens with the long jump, before the athletes compete in the javelin and close with the 800-meter run.
Fifteen women qualified for a tough heptathlon championship with more than half (8) the field holding NAIA ‘B’ qualifying marks, including 2021 Champion Valerie Schmidt. The junior from Corban University currently leads all of NAIA in the heptathlon after scoring 4872 points at the Buc Scoring Meet and Multi in March.
UBC’s Hassy Fashina-Bombata – third in the NAIA with 4,622 points – and Southern Oregon University’s Abi Stevens – fourth in the NAIA with 4,601 points – could give Schmidt a run for the title, with several others in the mix too.
Also competing are EOU’s Karli Bedard and Sammy Conley; UBC’s Rebecca Dutchak (10
th in the NAIA); LC State’s Jennah Carpenter (11
th in the NAIA), Sara Hathaway, and Makayla McIntosh; SOU’s Jenna Hodges (17
th in the NAIA) and Baylee Touey; College of Idaho’s Cassidy Stoddard (15
th in the NAIA) and Roby Young (eighth in the NAIA); Corban’s Keelyn O’Reilly; and Oregon Tech’s Ally Odell.