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Indoor Track & Field Seattle Pacific University Mark Moschetti, Assistant SID ● (206) 281-2772 ● [email protected] ● Fax: (206) 281-2266 February 20, 2020 Falcon women aim at another GNAC crown Bley (200 meters) and Cai (pole vault) are top seeds for conference meet GENERAL INFORMATION Institution: Seattle Pacific University Address: 3307 Third Ave. W., Seattle, WA 98119 THE SCHEDULE: Seattle Pacific at GNAC Championships Enrollment: 3,700 Friday-Saturday, Feb. 21-22, 2020 Nickname: Falcons Colors: Maroon & White Jackson’s Track @ The Idaho Center / Nampa, Idaho Affiliation: NCAA Division II FRIDAY: Conference: Great Northwest Athletic Conference Pentathlon 8:15 a.m.; track 1:30 p.m.; field 1:45 p.m. President: Dr. Daniel J. Martin (S. Nazarene) SATURDAY: Athletic Dir.: Jackson Stava (Azusa Pacific 2005) Field 8:30 a.m.; track 10:00 a.m. All times Pacific E-mail: [email protected] Athletic Department office: 206-281-2085 Fax: 206-281-2266 NO LIVE WECAST Athletic Dept. Web Site: www.spufalcons.com LIVE RESULTS: http://results.tfmeetpro.com/SnakeRiverTiming/GNAC_Indoor_Championships_2020/ Sports Info. Director: Dan Lepse (206-281-2741; [email protected]) SEATTLE – They’ve done it before. Can the Seattle Pacific Falcons do it again? Track SID: Mark Moschetti (206-281-2772, With 13 indoor track and field team titles to the program’s credit, SPU’s women will go [email protected]) for No. 14 this weekend when it heads to Idaho for the Great Northwest Athletic COACHING STAFF Conference Championships. Head Coach: Karl Lerum (PLU ’98) The two-day meet is set for Friday and Office: (206) 281-2897 HOW CLOSE WILL IT BE? Saturday on Jackson’s Track at the E-mail: [email protected] HEY, IT’S ALWAYS CLOSE Idaho Center. The women’s pentathlon The past three GNAC women’s titles gets things going on Day 1 at 8:15 a.m. Associate Chris Reed Head Coach: Office: (206) 282-3432 have been decided by a combined Pacific time. Track events start at 1:30 [email protected] 7½ points – and that includes the tie Pacific and field events at 1:45. between Seattle Pacific and Central Saturday’s schedule begins in the field Assistant Coach: Kate Carlson Washington two years ago. at 8:30 a.m. PST and on the track at Office: (206) 281-3432 SPU comes into this one as the favorite, 10:00 a.m. [email protected] but not an overwhelming favorite. Seattle Pacific has been part of the last Based on the entry marks and applying three women’s team titles. The Falcons won it outright last year, edging Central 2020 SCHEDULE the appropriate team points for the top Washington by four, 154-150. Those eight places (10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1), the Jan. 18 UW Indoor Preview No team scores two teams were co-champions in 2018, Falcons are seeded for 121½ points Jan. 26 Portland Indoor One No team scores each scoring 136 points. SPU won it all The only other team seeded for more Jan. 31 UW Invitational No team scores in 2017, that year in a nail-biter ahead of than 100 is Concordia-Portland with Feb. 1 UW Invitational No team scores Simon Fraser, 124-120½. Feb. 7 Nike Boise Imvite No team scores 103 1/3. Central Washington is at 97¼, Feb. 8 Nike Boise Invite No team scores. and Alaska Anchorage is at 90. Feb. 9 Portland Indoor Two No team scores KEEPING TRACK OF THE ACTION Across the 17 events, the Falcons are Feb. 14 Husky Classic No team scores seeded for 23 slots among the top 8. The meet will not have a live Webcast. Feb. 15 Husky Classic No team scores That includes a pair of No. 1 seeds: However, live results will be available Feb. 21 GNAC Championships (Nampa), 1:30 p.m. Grace Bley in the 200 and Scout throughout the weekend through Snake Feb. 22 GNAC Championships (Nampa), 9:30 a.m. Cai in the pole vault. River Timing. The appropriate link can Feb. 29 SPU Final Qualifier (Dempsey), 4:30 p.m. be found at the top of this page. March13 NCAA Nationals (Birmingham), 8:00 a.m. Concordia has 19 slots in the top 8, with March 14 NCAA Nationals (Birmingham), 8:30 a.m. two top seeds. Central has 21 slots, with three top seeds. Anchorage has 12 UP NEXT slots with three top seeds. The SPU Final Qualifier is set for next On the men’s side, defending champion Saturday, Feb. 29, at Dempsey Indoor. Western Washington is the favorite to The scheduled start time is 4:30 p.m. do it again, seeded for 145½ points. The meet is one last opportunity to get onto the NCAA qualifying list or to Seattle Pacific is seeded for 17 points. improve one’s position on that list. SCOUTING REPORT: WOMEN SCOUTING REPORT: MEN Seattle Pacific heads to Nampa slated to score in 12 of the 17 SPU is seeded to score in three events – and one of events. One of their non-scoring events is the pentathlon, but those is the 3000 meters, which sophomore Colby that is likely to change as senior Scout Cai goes for her fourth Otero enters as the top seed. straight title. This will be Otero’s first 3K of the winter. His entry Cai has not yet done a pent this winter, as the only time of 8:26.60 was converted from the school nearby meet that offers one is the UW Invitational record-setting 5K that he ran on Jan. 31 at the UW in late January, and she opted for other events Invite, as he clocked 14:35.10. Alaska Anchorage that weekend. The top seed coming in is Alaska junior Wesley Kirui has run a 3K this winter, and is the second seed Anchorage senior Elena Cano with 3,436 points. at 8:27.19. That’s slightly ahead of Western Washington junior Cai’s three winning GNAC marks were 3,499 as a Edward Kiolbasa (8:27.29) and Anchorage junior Felix Kemboi freshman in 2017, then 3,610 as a sophomore and (8:27.61). Those times, like Kirui’s, are from official 3Ks. 3,815 as a junior. Sophomore David Njeri is the other Falcon in The sprints and distance events both could be position to score – and in two events at that. He is the No. 4 seed in the triple jump off last Saturday’s lucrative for SPU. That starts with senior Grace personal-best leap of 46 feet, 4 inches at the Husky Bley in the 200-meter dash as she goes for a second Classic last Saturday. Chris Brake, a senior from straight indoor title. (She already has two straight out- Alaska Anchorage, is the favorite at 47-1 ½. door crowns.) Her entry time of 24.78 was posted on this same 200-meter banked track at the Jackson’s Njeri is seventh-seeded in the 60-meter hurdles at / Nike Boise Indoor Invitational on Feb. 7. It is on the 8.61.Joshua Wagner, an Anchorage freshman, is No. 1 at 8.36 NCAA provisional qualifying list and is 22 hundredths ahead of In its quest for another team title, Western Washington is doing Central Washington senior Erykah Weems. Junior Julia Stepper it with depth. The Vikings have just one No. 1 seed, that in the is the No. 3 seed, sophomore Peace Igbonagwam is No. 4, and 4-by-400 relay. Anchorage, Western Oregon, and Concordia have sophomore Jenna Bouyer is No. 6. three No. 1 seeds apiece. Those same four also are seeded to score in the 60-meter dash. Igbonagwam is the No. 3 seed in that one at 7.70, with Stepper, Bouyer, and Bley 5-6-7. Western Oregon freshman Maya Hopwood WHERE TO SEE THEM (7.57) and Concordia-Portland’s Macie Allen (7.61) are the ones to WOMEN MEN beat. Allen won last year in 7.58. Grace Bley: 60, 200, 4x400 Reed Adjibly: 800 On the distance side, junior Dania Jenna Bouyer: 60, 200, Colin Boutin: 3000, 5000 Holmberg (left) and senior Kate 4x400 Brad Bowman: PV Lilly (right) are doubling up in races Scout Cai: HJ, PV, pentathlon Mile – and doubling up in points. Holmberg Felix Coffin: Dania Holmberg: Mile, 3000, Elius Graff:Mile, DMR is the No. 3 seed and Lilly is No. 4 in DMR the mile on Saturday morning. Later Ben Hansen: 800, 3000 Peace Igbonagwam: 60, J.R. Hentges: 800 that afternoon, Holmberg is No. 3 and 200, LJ, TJ, 4x400 Kyle Morrison: 3000 Lilly is No. 6 in the 3000. Madison Licari: PV David Njeri: 60H, LJ, TJ Seniors Katherine Walter and Sedona McNerney are doing Kate Lilly: Mile, 3000, DMR Colby Otero: 3000 the 3K-5K double. Both are slated to score in the 5, with Walter Kellie May: LJ, TJ Jon Owen: 3000, 5000 seeded No. 4 and McNerney No. 5. In the 3, they are seeded No. 9 Sedona McNerney: 3000, and No. 10, respectively, less than a second outside of the top 8. 5000 Brayden Schultz: Mile, DMR Cai, in addition to going for another pentathlon crown, is the top Renick Meyer: 60, 60H, LJ Julius Shepherd: 400, DMR seed in the pole vault, having cleared 12-5½. That could come Libby Michael: Mile down to a battle between her and Central Washington senior Hallie Emily Northey: PV Irvine, who has gone 12-1½. Sophomore Madison Licari is the Krystal Oien: 800, DMR co-No. 3 seed with a mark of 11-7¾.