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Weber State Twilight Meet
Wildcats pick up 15 victories at Twilight meet
5/6/2015 10:51:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
OGDEN, Utah - For a few select athletes, they were given one last chance on Tuesday evening to wear the Weber State school colors and compete on their home track. Not only did the Twilight meet give athletes one more shot to qualify for conference, it gave family and friends a chance to support their athletes one more time.
19 student-athletes were honored and presented with a certificate throughout the meet.
“It was really fun to honor the seniors, that was a fun part of the evening,” Director of track and field Dan Walker said. “We got better in almost every event that we hosted, you can't ask for much more than that. We had a lot of seasonal and personal bests all over the board. I was very pleased with how it went.”
The meet was cut short on Wednesday due to weather delays but the Wildcats were still able to take care of business on Tuesday. They picked up 15 victories and four more Big Sky qualifying marks. That brings their total up to 39 a week before the conference meet.
On the women's side, Natasha Powell continued to improve as she won the shot put in a personal-best mark of 47-04.50. With that mark, Powell now has the fifth-best throw in school history. Elisa Isakson broke her own school record in the pole vault with her mark of 12-02.00. That mark also qualifies her to compete next week.
Emily Morgan took care of business winning the 100-meters in a time of 11.77. Alex Van Halder ran away from the field in the 200-meter dash in a time of 24.94. That is two consecutive weeks that she has run under 25 seconds. Tawnie Moore won the 110-meter hurdles in a time of 15.17. Amanda Alston took second in the 400-meters in a seasonal-best time of 57.07.
Taylor Cox won the 800-meters edging out teammate Ashley Kealamakia as she ran 2:14.15. Paige Dilmore led from start to finish in the women's 1,500 meter in a time of 4:43.79.
On the men's side, Zach Schweinsberg, Jason Diamond and Ryan Carlson all picked up qualifying marks. Schweinsberg took second in the 800-meters in a seasonl-best time of 1:53.56. Diamond took third in the 400-meters in a time of 48.75 while Carlson took second in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 54.37.
Dustin Durfee and Isaac Akers went first and second in the 400-meters running 48.41 and 47.74 respectively. Joey Czellecz won the 400-meter hurdles in a tiem of 53.41. Josh Hartford pulled away from the field to win the 800-meters in a time of 1:52.93. Derek Day won the 5,000 meters in a time of 15:42.78.
The 4x400 team of Diamond, Akers, Dufree and Stetson Smith ran their fastest time of the year in a time of 3:15.86.
The Wildcats will take part in the Big Sky Championships next week in Cheney, Washington. The decathlon and heptathlon will start on Wednesday.
