Seattle Pacific University Mark Moschetti, Assistant SID ● (206) 281-2772 ● [email protected] ● Fax: (206) 281-2266 March 6, 2020
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Outdoor Track & Field Seattle Pacific University Mark Moschetti, Assistant SID ● (206) 281-2772 ● [email protected] ● Fax: (206) 281-2266 March 6, 2020 First March Saturday means outdoor track Keeping tradition alive, Falcons open spring schedule at Boitano / UPS Invite GENERAL INFORMATION Institution: Seattle Pacific University Address: 3307 Third Ave. W., Seattle, WA 98119 THE SCHEDULE Seattle Pacific at Ed Boitano / Puget Sound Invitational Enrollment: 4,061 Saturday, March 7, 2020 Nickname: Falcons Colors: Maroon & White Baker Stadium (UPS) / 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: http://www2.pugetsound.edu/athletics/live/track/ 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 – For the past several weeks, the Seattle Pacific Falcons have been heating Athletic Dept. Web Site: www.spufalcons.com things up indoors. Sports Info. Director: Dan Lepse (206-281-2741; This week, they’ll see how much of a hot start then can get off to when the action [email protected]) shifts outdoors. Track SID: Mark Moschetti (206-281-2772, SPU athletes will head south on Saturday morning for their traditional spring track and [email protected]) field opener at the Ed Boitano / Puget Sound Invitational. COACHING STAFF Action at Baker Stadium on the University Head Coach: Karl Lerum (PLU ’98) TOP 100 FOR WILEY AT of Puget Sound campus begins at 10:00 a.m. Office: (206) 281-2897 OLYMPIC MARATHON TRIALS both on the track and in the field. The start E-mail: [email protected] Turner Wiley, who starred in the time is an hour earlier than in previous Asst. Coaches: Chris Reed distance events for Seattle Pacific years, and the final race of the day is set for Kate Carlson from 2013-16, placed 99th at the 1:15 p.m. Office: (206) 281-3432 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials in The Falcons now have begun their outdoor [email protected] [email protected] Atlanta last Saturady. season for 18 straight years at UPS, as Wiley completed his 26.2 miles on the meet has grown from a quadrangular to a full-fledged invitational with numerous the hilly, windy course in 2 hours, 2020 SCHEDULE 24 minutes, 54 seconds. Pacific Northwest schools in attendance. March 7 Ed Boitano / UPS Invite (Tacoma), 10 a.m. Along with Seattle Pacific, other Great Wiley came into the race seeded March 14 PLU Open (Tacoma), 10 a.m. 111th, based on his 2:17:00 qualifying Northwest Athletic Conference schools March 21 Doris Heritage Festival (W. Seattle), 9:30 a.m. time from last October’s Chicago scheduled to be in Tacoma on Saturday are March 26-28 Aztec Invite (San DIego), 9 a.m. Marathon. It was just the third Saint Martin’s and Western Washington. March 28 UBC Open (Vancouver, B.C.), TBA marathon he has done. His first one April 2-3 Mike Fanelli Classic (Hayward), TBA was Paris last spring. DRESS WARM, KEEP RAINGEAR HANDY April 11 Jay Hammer Meet (Lacey), 9:45 a.m. For the first half of the race, Wiley No doubt about it: This meet is always one April 15-16 Bryan Clay Hep (Azusa, CA.), TBA the 70s among 200-plus men in of the colder competitions of the year – even April 16-17 Bryan Clay Invite, 3 p.m. / 9 a.m. the field. He was in the low 100s to the point of snow flurries. No snow in the April 27 Vernacchia Invite (Bellingham), TBA for much of the second half, down forecast this year, but it most certainly will April 29-30 GNAC Multis (Ellensburg), TBA to about 115th. But he made a big be cold. The temperature likely will be in the May 7 GNAC (Monmouth, Ore.), 2:25 p.m. May 8 GNAC (Monmouth, Ore.), 1:20 p.m. move on the last part of the course, upper 30s to low 40s in the morning, pushing May 21-23 NCAA (Kingsville, Texas), TBA passing about 15 runners inside the toward the mid 40s. Skies will be cloudy, final mile to climb into the top 100. and rain showers are possible. He said that while he had hoped for a higher finish, he found a lot of satisfaction in his accomplishment. UP NEXT “I was seeded 111th, I finished 99th The Falcons will be back in Tacoma next – to me, I can’t be too disappointed weekend, albeit at a different venue. This in that,” Wiley said. “At the end of the time, it will be at the Pacific Lutheran track day, I’m the 99th-best marathoner in for the PLU Open. Field events start at the U.S. today.” 10:00 a.m. and running events at 11:00. The last race is set for 3:25. SCOUTING REPORT FALCON FODDER What possibly could be one of the best of events for the Falcon ‘V’ IS FOR VICTORY women will be their last race of the day as they put together four Less-than-springtime conditions notwithstanding, SPU athletes of their speediest on the 4-by-400 relay. Senior Grace Bley, usually manage to find their way into the win column at least once sophomore Jenna Bouyer, junior Renick Meyer, and junior inside Baker Stadium. Julia Stepper are penciled in to carry the baton. Bley and Bouyer also are in the open 400. Last year, it was Dania Holmberg in the women’s 1500 and Jared Putney in the men’s 3000 steeplechase. SPU’s distance runners are splitting between the 800 and 1500. Senior Kate Lilly, freshman Libby Michael, junior Elizabeth Holmberg, after missing the entire indoor season with an injury, got Thompson, and sophomore Kelsey Washenberger are in to the finish line 3-plus seconds ahead of her nearest challenger. the short event; seniors Sedona McNerney and Katherine Putney made his college outdoor in this meet, clocking 9:47.13 in Walter and sophomore Krystal Oien are in the longer one. the steeple. The heptathlon is not on Saturday’s docket, but it will be coming up Overall, the Falcon women have had at least one winner in 14 of in future meets, so Meyer and Scout Cai are entering events the 17 season-opening meets. The men have had at least one in with that in mind. Meyer is in the javelin and 800; Cai is in the 13 of the 17. shot put. Sophomore Madison Licari made her collegiate outdoor poie SELECT SIX EARN INDOOR ALL-REGION vault debut in this meet a year ago, clearing 10 feet even. By the Peace Igbonagwam, who had the best long jump mark in end of the season at the GNAC Championships, she was up to the West, and Dania Holmberg, with a pair of second-ranked 11 feet, 10½ inches, and will have a chance on Saturday to see times in the distance races, lead a contingent of six SPU athletes how close she can come to that. who earned a spot on the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country The Seattle Pacific men are focusing mostly on the distances Coaches Association All-West Region team. – and it’s a freshman-dominated group. Felix Coffin, J.R. Igbonagwam’s mark of 19 feet, 5½ inches that won her a second Hentges, Kyle Morrison and Jon Owen are penciled in for straight Great Northwest Athletic Conference title, and was three the 800-1500 double. So is sophomore Brayden Schultz. inches farther than the West’s second-best mark. Juniors Colin Boutin and Elius Graff, and sophomore Holmberg, a junior, ran to the second-fastest times in the region Jared Putney will go long in the 3000. Putney will be in his for the 3000 and 5000 meters: 9:38.95 in the former, and 16:49.07 first race since the NCAA West Regional cross country meet last in the latter. Her 3000 mark was the winning time at last week’s November. He missed the entire indoor season with an injury. SPU Final Qualifier. Sophomore David Njeri, coming off a fourth-place finish in the Joining them on the women’s team are senior Scout Cai (No. 3 GNAC indoor 60-meter hurdles two weeks ago, is scheduled to in pentathlon, co-No. 3 in pole vault), junior Renick Meyer double up on Saturday in the 110 highs and 400 intermediates. (No. 3 in long jump, No. 4 in 60-meter hurdles), Freshman Brad Bowman didn’t do a college pole vault for the A pair of SPU men also made the squad: sophomore David first time until the GNAC indoor meet two weeks ago in Nampa Njeri (No. 3 in the triple jump, No. 5 in the 60-hurdles), and – and he wound up taking fifth place by getting over the bar at sophomore Colby Otero (No. 2 in the 5000). 13-1½. He’ll give it a go outdoors on Saturday. Last year while a senior at Tacoma’s Bellarmine Prep, he had a string of six straight 13-footers, topped by a career-high 13-6. BOUND FOR ’BAMA Junior Dania Holmberg and sophomore Peace Igbonagwam WHERE TO SEE THEM are busy preparing for a trip to the NCAA Division II indoor national SPU’s entries for the Ed Boitano Invite (subject to scratches): championships. The meet at The Crossplex in Birmingham is set for next Friday and Saturday, March 13 and 14. WOMEN MEN Holmberg will run the 5000 meters on Friday, then come back to the 200-meter banked track just 24 hours later for the 3000.