Jan. 27, 2016
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Aztecs Head to Competitive UW Invitational in Seattle
The San Diego State track and field team resumes competition this weekend at the UW Invitational at Dempsey Indoor in Seattle, Wash.
The Aztecs will send 21 athletes to the two-day meet, which begins Friday with the pentathlon at 1:30 p.m. PT. Competing in the five-event pentathlon will be Kassidy Ellis and Jelena McNown. Ellis will also be running the prelims of the 60-meter hurdles on Saturday.
Madison Gipson and Simone Glenn are each entered in three events apiece. Gipson is scheduled to run the 400, 60 hurdles and a leg of the 4x400, while Glenn is set for the 60, 400 and 4x400.
Lisa-Anne Barrow (4x400 and DMR), Sierra Brabham-Lawrence (60H and long jump), Jazmen Bunch (60 and 200), Alexa Evans (shot put and weight throw), Lakin Hatcher (200 and 4x400), Ashley Henderson (60 and 200), Tyra Lea (200 and 400), Elaine Ribeiro (3,000 and DMR), Rachel Roesgen (3,000 and DMR) and Cassidy Towner (3,000 and DMR) are each entered in two events apiece.
Micha Auzenne (200) and Bonnie Draxler (pole vault), who on Jan. 19 were both named Mountain West athletes of the week, will compete in one event. Also scheduled for solo events are Je'Neal Ainsworth (triple jump), Rachel Alesi (shot put), Marissa Berry (pole vault), Ellison Grove (800) and Lily Seynaeve (3,000).
The pentathlon starts at 1:30 p.m. PT Friday with the 60 hurdles, followed by the high jump, shot put, long jump and 800. The open pole vault, meanwhile, starts at 5 p.m. PT and the weight throw is set to follow the pentathlon shot put. On the track, the 200 starts at 5 p.m. PT and the pentathlon 800 ends the first day for SDSU around 7:45 p.m. PT.
The second day begins at 9:30 a.m. PT Saturday with the prelims of the 60 hurdles and concludes with the 4x400 at 5:15 p.m. PT.
Some of the teams competing with the Aztecs and host Washington include Arizona, Azusa Pacific, Boise State, Brigham Young, Cal Poly, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Los Angeles, Eastern Washington, Fresno State, Gonzaga, Hawai`i, Idaho, Long Beach State, Montana, Nevada, San Francisco, Seattle, Simon Fraser, Southern Utah, Syracuse, UC Irvine, Utah, Washington State, Weber State and Western Washington. Representatives from Nike and other unattached athletes have also entered events in the meet.
General admission is $5 for the meet. All kids aged 10-and-under are free.
Results for both meets will be posted to GoAztecs.com when they become available.
The Aztecs are coming off a pair of opening meets at the NAU Lumberjack Challenge in Flagstaff, Ariz., and the UCS Spirit National Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nev.
Micha Auzenne easily won both the 60-meter dash and the 60 hurdles, and three other Aztecs posted all-time program top-10 marks. Auzenne first won the 60 meters in 7.40 seconds, 0.22 seconds faster than the next two finishers. She later captured the 60 hurdles in 8.28 seconds, outdistancing runner-up and teammate Sierra Brabham-Lawrence by 0.17 seconds (8.45). Auzenne was named the MW Women's Track Athlete of the Week for her efforts.
The Aztecs' other two all-time top-10 marks came in the throwing events off the hands of Alexa Evans and Victoria Dickerson. Evans tossed the ninth-best shot put mark ever at SDSU in 44-00.50 (13.42 meters), while Dickerson's mark of 49-02.50 (15.00m) in the weight throw was good for the 10th-best heave in program history.
At the pole vault, Bonnie Draxler led the way with a runner-up finish in the College 1 flight, clearing 13-03.50 (4.05m). She was also honored by the MW as the women's field athlete of the week.