Weber State University Athletics
Weber State University
BYU Robison Invitational
Wildcats excel at Robison Invitational
4/25/2015 11:16:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
PROVO, Utah – The Weber State men's and women's track and field teams continued to improve this past weekend at the BYU Robison Invitational. They picked up three victories and handful of personal-bests.
“Overall, we had a really quality meet and the weather was really good for most of the day,” Assistant coach Isaac Wood said. “It was ideal conditions. We are pleased about how Jason (Kearns) ran in the 5k. That puts him in a position to help us at the conference meet. It was nice to see Emily (Morgan) get the win in the 100-meters and Katherine (Wishmeyer) run so well even though she was sick. For the majority of the athletes that competed, it was a positive weekend. It puts us in a position to succeed at the conference meet.”
On the women's side, Katherine Wishmeyer, Emily Morgan and Jazmin Porter picked up victories for the Wildcats. Wishmeyer won the 400-meter dash in a seasonal-best time of 55.12. Morgan won the 100-meter dash in a time of 11.95. It is the third time this season that she has run under 12 seconds. She also took fourth in the 200-meters setting a personal-best time of 24.74 on Friday. Porter won the discus in a seasonal-best mark of 160-07.50. She also took fourth in the hammer throw and third in the shot put.
Natasha Powell took second in the shot put with a mark of 45-00.25, which is the 10th best mark in school history. Paige Cooper took fifth in the high jump with a seasonal-best mark of 5-05.25.
Tawnie Moore took second in the 100-meter hurdles in a time of 14.19. Jamie Stokes took second in the mile run wither her time of 4:58.88. Ashley Kealamakia took fifth in the 800-meters in a time of 2:15.38. Paige Dilmore ran a personal-best time of 11:33.36 to take second in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Alice Keller took third in the same race in a time of 11:35.33.
On the men's side, Josh Hartford took second in the 800-meters in a time of 1:52.84. Isaac Akers ran a seasonal-best 52.22 in the 400-meter hurdles in the preliminary heats on Friday and came back to take third in the finals. Dusin Durfee took fourth in the same race in a time of 53.51. Trevor Ricks ran 4:11.54 in the mile run placing fifth while Joe Maloney took seventh in 4:12.95.
Nathan Dunivan had another huge personal-best in the discus with a mark of 169-06.75 which was good enough for sixth place. CJ Deters took third in the shot put with a mark of 52-00.00 while Justin Herbert took fourth in the hammer with a mark of 169-01.25.
The Wildcats will return to action next weekend at the Payton Jordan Invitational and Idaho-Utah Borderclash.
