March 8, 2005
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Balentine, Asay to Compete at NCAA Indoor Meet; Others Open Up Outdoor Season at SD City Champs
• Seniors Erin Asay and Shayla Balentine will compete at the 2005 NCAA Indoor Championship meet in Fayetteville, Ark., this weekend. Both athletes will participate in the pole vault, which is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. CST on Sat., March 12.
• Head coach Rahn Sheffield will send 30 of its non-NCAA competing members to the 2005 San Diego Collegiate Track and Field Championships, the outdoor season-opening event for the squad, on March 12. The meet, which features five other teams, will take place at the Triton Track and Field Stadium on the campus of UC San Diego.
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• Seniors Shayla Balentine and Erin Asay will compete in the 2005 NCAA Indoor Championship meet in Fayetteville, Ark., on Sat., March 12.
• Balentine and Asay, who had already provisionally qualified for NCAA's and tied the school record earlier in the season, went 1-2 at the Mountain West Conference meet to better their position on the pole vault national list.
Balentine automatically qualified for NCAA's with a new MWC record, MWC Championship meet record, school record, and personal-best (indoor and outdoor) jump of 14 feet, zero inches. The mark moved her from 18th on the national list to third, a mere 1.25 inches from the second-ranked Lacy Janson of Florida State and 3.5 inches behind top-ranked Kate Soma of Washington.
Asay, who also had the 18th-best vault in the nation heading into the MWC meet, improved 10 spots to number eight with a personal-best vault of 13-8.25. She is currently tied with Washington State's Tamara Diles and trailing Laura Chmielewski of Northeastern by one-half inch.
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