RESULTS
SPOKANE, Wash. – Jedidiah Barnaby highlighted the season opener for LC State Track and Field on Saturday at the Spokane Invitational. The senior shattered his own record in the 60m dash with the fastest time this season in the NAIA, and multiple newcomers etched their name in the record book in the meet at The Podium.
"A real nice start to our indoor season," coach Mike Collins said. "Definitely highlighted by Jed shattering of our indoor 60m record, and last I checked, this was the No. 1 time in the nation. Might have a shot at conference and national runner of the week with a performance like that. Although overshadowed a little bit, freshman Collin Wimer made a big splash today etching his name no less than three times onto the record board."
Wimer put himself in the top five at LC State in the triple jump, 100m and 200m in his collegiate debut, and transfer Reid Thomas did so in the weight throw and shot put.
"A bit of a rust buster, generally speaking, but from a coach's perspective an opportunity to see where we are at, gauge some strengths and weaknesses and make adjustments to our training where it seems appropriate," Collins added. "Tough to compete at this time as I know all of these kids have come off a tough week of finals that are very draining, but they really stepped up."
TRACK
Barnaby solidified his title as the fastest Warrior in school history with the fastest time in the NAIA this season at 6.70. The time is more than one-tenth of a second faster than his previous personal best and had him at the top of the leaderboard in the prelims. He clocked 6.79 in the final to finish second.
Preston Cooper placed 14
th in the prelim (6.95) and Collin Wimer joined the LC State top five with his time of 7.08 to place 27
th. Camden Koerner was 35
th (7.14), Jordan Castillo was 39
th (7.19), Bryan Kinene placed 40
th (7.19), Avery Seal finished 48
th (7.29), James Bogdanowicz was 49
th (7.30), Isahi Salinas was 53
rd (7.33) and Brandon Decker placed 66
th (7.66).
Cooper had a career-best run in the 200m where he clocked the third-best time in program history. His time of 22.10 earned fourth place and Wimer claimed the fifth spot in the record book with his 14
th-palce finish (22.51). Luke Siler was 16
th (22.84), Aiden Grenier was 17
th (22.85), Bogdanowicz placed 22
nd with a PR of 23.38, Salinas finished 25
th (23.66), Milo Kunnap was 31
st (24.03) and Decker placed 36
th (25.56).
Grenier had a strong collegiate debut in the 60m hurdles with the fourth fastest time in LC State history (8.59). He finished 12
th overall, Cameron Carrara was 20
th with a personal best time of 9.24 and Perry Severijnse was 22
nd (9.44).
Transfer junior Avery Seal ran the fifth-best 400m in program history to earn a 13
th-place finish (51.29). Freshman Luke Siler was just behind in 14
th with a time of 51.33. Kobe Wessels finished 20
th in the 3,000m with a time of 8:55.78.
FIELD
Senior Trenton Johnson led a trio of Warriors in the triple jump. He placed fourth overall with a mark of 13.93 and a pair of freshmen made their mark on the record book. Wimer cleared the second-best distance ever by a Warrior (13.37m) to place 10
th and Kinene was 13
th with the third-best mark in school history (13.20m).
Johnson placed seventh in the long jump with a mark of 6.71m, Koerner placed 12
th (6.31m), Kinene was 14
th (6.20m) and Milo Kunnap finished 23
rd (5.59m). Kinene found success in the high jump where he was the top LC State finisher in 13
th (1.80m). Carrara and Isahi Salinas cleared the same height, and Severijnse was 18
th in his first attempt in the event (1.65m).
Reid Thomas and Ian Roeber made their LC State debuts and placed in the top 20 of the weight throw. Thomas hot a mark of 15.84m, which ranks second in school history, to place seventh and Roeber was 19
th (12.61m). Thomas went on to throw the second-best shot put in Warrior history at 14.89m to place eighth overall.
Decker competed in the open pole vault and finished ninth (4.05m).
UP NEXT
LC State is back in action at the Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open in Moscow Jan. 23-24.
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