<\/a>Sophie Wright<\/p><\/div>\n
The Western Washington junior sliced 5.22 seconds from her time set nearly one year ago to finish fourth in her heat and catapult from No. 4 in program history to program record holder. Wright bettered the record set last season by current teammate, Gabi Davis, by 0.55 seconds.<\/p>\n
Wright sits 31st among D2 performers this season and also moves up to No. 5 for known Alaskan performers behind Allie Ostrander, Ava Earl, Kaarin Knudson and Ruby Lindquist. The junior\u00a0also holds the program record as a part of the distance medley relay set last season.<\/p>\n
Haines\u2019 Avery Williamson made her official mile debut for UAA, finishing in 5:19.65, while Anchorage\u2019s Payton Smith made her collegiate track debut for Oregon State in the 3,000 (10:32.02), improving her time from 2020 by 22 seconds.<\/p>\n
Homer\u2019s Lance Seneff made his collegiate debut for UAA in the mile (4:30.37), shaving off more than 16 seconds from his 2021 time, while also competing in the 800 (2:04.57). Seneff finished three seconds ahead of Sitka\u2019s Silas Demmert (4:33.76) who represents Seattle Pacific.<\/p>\n
Eagle River\u2019s Anders Larsen set a personal best in the high jump (5-8.75) to become the No. 8 performer in UAA indoor history while also competing in the long jump (19-11.75) and 60 hurdles (9.06).<\/p>\n
Teammate Brian Morris, formerly of East High, tied his collegiate best in the 200 (22.59) after running well in the 60 (7.27), where he finished just ahead of former West High standout JR Zamora (7.28) who competes for Seattle University.<\/p>\n
Sitka\u2019s Joei Vidad officially opened her season in the 400 (59.69), while teammate Ty Elliott of Anchorage neared his personal best in the 3,000 (8:34.66).<\/p>\n
Joining Hagelund and Brantley in the winner\u2019s circle were a trio of athletes in their specialty events.<\/p>\n
Eagle River\u2019s Logan Mathieu had himself a weekend at the UND Open, where he won the 60-meter dash in a personal best of 6.86 seconds and finished runner-up in the 60 hurdles (8.06).\u00a0The North Dakota State junior is now tied for No. 9 in program history for the dash, after setting personal bests in the prelims and finals.<\/p>\n
Soldotna\u2019s Cody Nye opened his season at the CSU\/SJU Alumni Meet with a win in the shot put (51-8.25) while also placing eighth in the weight throw (41-3).\u00a0The Minnesota-Morris senior currently ranks 31st among D3 athletes this season.<\/p>\n
Lastly, Juneau\u2019s James Connally helped Eastern Oregon to a dominant win in the 4×400-relay at the Inland Northwest Invitational, in addition to competing in the 400 (51.93).\u00a0Connally ran the third leg of the relay which finished in 3:21.55 to top the 10-team field. The time ranks fourth in EOU history and the quickest mark since 2019.<\/p>\n
Feature image photos by Northwestern Athletics & Anders Norman.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One week after breaking into the NAIA top-three rankings for high jump, Soldotna\u2019s Adarra Hagelund had a monstrous jump to claim the top spot, clearing 5 feet, 8.75 inches. The Dickinson State sophomore opened her competition at 5-1 at the NAIA Preview, clearing each of the first three heights in two attempts or less. She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":46034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[377,107,31,269],"tags":[222,227,219,274,302,238,194,290,283,264,221,250,225],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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