Outdoor Track & Field Seattle Pacific University Mark Moschetti, Assistant SID ● (206) 281-2772 ● [email protected] ● Fax: (206) 281-2266 April 23, 2021 One final Tacoma trip awaits SPU Falcons head south for Peyton-Shotwell Invitational on Saturday at UPS GENERAL INFORMATION Institution: Seattle Pacific University Address: 3307 Third Ave. W., Seattle, WA 98119 THE SCHEDULE Seattle Pacific at Peyton-Shotwell Invitational Enrollment: 4,061 Saturday, April 24, 2021 Nickname: Falcons Colors: Maroon & White Baker Stadium @ U. of Puget Sound / Tacoma, Wash. Affiliation: NCAA Division II Track events, 10:00 a.m. Field events, 10:00 a.m. Conference: Great Northwest Athletic Conference Live results: https://tinyurl.com/peyton21 President: Dr. Daniel J. Martin (S. Nazarene) No live Webcast Athletic Dir.: Jackson Stava (Azusa Pacific 2005) E-mail: [email protected] Athletic Department office: 206-281-2085 Fax: 206-281-2266 SEATTLE – It’s a final track trip to Tacoma for the Seattle Pacific Falcons. Athletic Dept. Web Site: www.spufalcons.com SPU will visit Baker Stadium on the University of Puget Sound campus for the second Sports Info. Director: Dan Lepse (206-281-2741; time this season when they head to Saturday’s Peyton-Shotwell Invitational. [email protected]) Competition both on the track and in the field begins at 10:00 a.m. The last scheduled Track SID: Mark Moschetti (206-947-9073, [email protected]) race of the day is set for 3:45 p.m. The Falcons were previously at UPS on COACHING STAFF WHO MAKES IT TO MICHIGAN? March 27 for the Ed Boitano Invitational. Head Coach: Karl Lerum (PLU ’98) The NCAA Division II nationals are set That was a successful day, as they scored Office: (206) 281-2897 for Allendale, Mich. at Grand Valley six event victories. They were also in E-mail: [email protected] State on May 27-28-29 – and Seattle neighboring Parkland for the PLU Open Asst. Coaches: Chris Reed Pacific already has two provisional on March 6. Kate Carlson qualifiers: Scout Cai in the pole vault Office: (206) 281-2880 Dania Holmberg in the 5000, and [email protected] Renick Meyer in the heptathlon. KEEPING TRACK OF THE ACTION [email protected] But being on the qualifying list doesn’t As has been the case all spring, no fans guarantee getting into the meet. This will be admitted to the meet. Live results 2021 SCHEDULE year will be even tougher, as the total will be available. The link is at the top of field size of 377 athletes per gender this page. March 6 PLU Open No team scores across all 21 events has been reduced March 20 Doris Heritage Festival No team scores by 25 percent to 283 per gender due March 27 Ed Boitano Invite W 3rd M: 6th to economic and pandemic reasons. NO SUNSCREEN NEEDED THIS WEEK April 3 WWU Team Invite No team scores. April 9 Seattle U Dual No team scores The “desired minimum” number of After remarkably warm conditions in April 10 PLU Invitational No team scores competitors for each individual event Ellensburg last Saturday, the Falcons will April 17 CWU WIldcat Invite No team scores and for the heptathlon / decathlon is be dealing with more typical April weather April 24 Peyton-Shotwell Invite (UPS), 10:00 a.m. 13, with a maximum of 17. For relays, this week – that means cool and wet. The April 30 Buc Scoring Invite (Spokane), 1:50 p.m. it’s 12 minimum, 14 maximum. forecast calls for temperatures barely May 1 Vernacchia Invite (Bellingham), TBA Previously, the minimum / maximum getting into the 50s, and a ‘real feel’ in May 3-4 GNAC Multis (Ellensburg), TBA numbers were 20 / 24 for individual the upper 40s under cloudy skies. Rain is May 7 Ken Shannon Invite (Husky Track), TBA events, 16 / 16 for the heptathlon and likely for at least a portion of the day, and May 14 GNAC (Monmouth, Ore.), TBA decathlon, and 14 / 18 for relays. gusty winds could be a factor, as well. May 15 GNAC (Monmouth, Ore.), TBA After the automatic qualifiers are May 27-29 NCAA (Allendale, Mich.), TBA placed in each event, the rest of the slots are filled from the provisional UP NEXT Schedule subject to change due to health and safety qualifiers, beginning with the best The Falcons take a trip to Spokane next protocols. mark. If, after reaching all of the Friday for the Buc Scoring Invitational desired minimums, the total number of at Whitworth University. This is the first athletes is short of 283, meet officials time SPU will be competing in that meet. can add athletes to various events, Track races begin at 1:50 p.m., and field depending on the overall strength of events start at 2:00 p.m. Fans will not be any given event. admitted. SCOUTING REPORT RENICK RACKS UP WEEKLY GNAC HONOR Falcons senior Renick Meyer, who won the heptathlon at the CWU Wildcat Invitational, was named the GNAC Wom- SCOUTING THE PEYTON-SHOTWELL INVITATIONAL en’s Field Athlete of the Week on Monday. The Falcons will cover a variety of events on both the women’s With 4,629 points in the two-day event, Meyer edged and men’s sides – 10 for the women, 11 for the men. Western Oregon’s Jenelle Hurley, who tallied 4,596. Senior Dania Holmberg, who’s on the NCAA provisional Meyer won two events: the 100-meter hurdles to start Day 1, qualifying list for the 5000 meters, comes in at 17 minutes, 4.76 with a GNAC-leading time of 14.55 seconds, giving her 902 seconds. Her outdoor personal-best is 16:55.05. points, and the long jump to start Day 2, going 18 feet, 3¾ Freshman Ellie Rising already has two victories in the 800 inches for 723 points. and has dropped considerable time twice. She started the season Meyer’s final point total put her onto the NCAA Division II at 2:20.04, then went 2:16.18 on March 20, followed by a provisional qualifying list, currently ranking No. 18 nationally. 2:13.95 on this same Baker Stadium track a week later, Senior Kate Lilly, who returned to racing last week for the first time since the 2020 indoor season, will try the 3000-meter steeplechase for the first time in her career. FALCON FODDER The sprints will include senior Julia Stepper and freshman Aniya Green in the 100 and 200, and senior Grace Bley in SO WHAT’S THE STORY THIS WEEK? the 200 and 400. Peace Igbonagwam, looking to race for the first time since March 20, is slated for the 400. Bley remains -- The Ed Boitano Invite at UPS on March 27 is when Grace the GNAC leader in the 200 at 24.61; Stepper is co-No. 1 in the Bley set her GNAC-leading mark of 24.61 in the 200. 100 at 12.25. -- Bley was one of six Seattle Pacific winners on that Senior Scout Cai goes after an eighth straight pole vault win. day. She was joined by Ellie Rising (800), Scout Cai (pole David Njeri had a big day in the long jump and triple jump at vault), Kelsey Washenberger (1500), Renick Meyer (long Central Washington last weekend and will go in both of those jump), and the 4-by-100 relay. events again. Njeri went 47 feet, 1¾ inches to win the triple, and -- Meyer’s long jump distance of 18-11¼ on that day still was second in the long at 21-10¼. His triple jump was an outdoor sits atop the conference list. personal best and is just 1¼ inches off the GNAC-leading mark -- Depending on who enters what events, it’s possible the of 47-3, belonging to Western Oregon junior Jalon Fields. GNAC’s top three female long jumpers could be Freshman Darius Holmes will be the busiest Falcon in the sharing the runway on Saturday – and they happen to be field, entered in the pole vault, shot put, and discus. the only three 18-footers so far. Behind Meyer’s 18-11¼ SPU has one sub four-minute mark in the 1500 meters so far, are Western Washington teammates Karlie Hurley (18-6½) and that being Elius Graff’s 3:59.27 on April 3 in Bellingham. Aliyah Dawkins (18-2½). Jared Putney (4:02.42) and Brayden Schultz (4:02.55) -- The Falcons are up to 44 event wins after collecting four would like to join him – and are entered in it. in Ellensburg last week. J.R. Hentges came close to going sub-2 in the 800 last week, coming across the finish line in 2:01.70. He gets another shot at NATIONALLY SPEAKING it on Saturday. A pair of Falcons – Schultz (1:57.65) and Jon Owen (1:59.91) already have done that and will have a chance On the list of top marks in NCAA Division II, as reported on the to lower their marks even more. Track and Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS). For the Colin Boutin is in the 5000 meters. He ran that in the season NCAA Championships, the desired minimum competitors in opener at Pacific Lutheran on March 6 and recorded a 14-second individual and multi events is 13; the maximum is 17. For relays, personal-best of 15:14.45. the desired minimum is 12 teams, the maximum is 14. -- Scout Cai is tied for No. 18 in the pole vault at 12 feet, 11½ inches. No. 13 mark: 13-1¾. No. 17 mark: 13-0¼.