Feb. 10, 2016
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SDSU WEEKLY RELEASE - DON KIRBY COLLEGIATE INVITE | LIVE RESULTS
Aztecs Set for Don Kirby Collegiate Invitational
In its final meet before the Mountain West Indoor Track and Field Championships, San Diego State heads to Albuquerque, N.M., for the Don Kirby Collegiate Invitational. The two-day meet begins Friday for the Aztecs with the prelims of the 60-meter hurdles.
SDSU is sending 19 athletes to the meet with multi-event specialists Kassidy Ellis (200, 60 hurdles, high jump and long jump) and Karsen Sper (200, 60 hurdles and long jump) competing in four and three events, respectively. Lisa-Anne Barrow is also entered in three events, including the 200, 400 and long jump.
Jazmen Bunch (60, 200), Madison Gipson (400, 60H), Simone Glenn (60, 200), Lakin Hatcher (200, 400), Ashley Henderson (60, 200), Sierra Lawrence-Brabham (60, 60H), Tyra Lea (200, 400), Kira Moreland (60, long jump), Courtney Robinson (60, 60H) and Starlynn Singleton (60, triple jump) are also entered in two events apiece.
Ellison Grove (800) and Elaine Ribeiro (mile) are competing on the track as well, while Marissa Berry, Bonnie Draxler and Karen Snapper are entered in the pole vault, and Je'Neal Ainsworth in the triple jump.
Following the prelims of the 60 hurdles at 4:10 p.m. MST Friday are open 60 prelims (4:30 p.m. MST), long jump (4:30 p.m. MST), high jump (6 p.m. MST) and 200 (6:15 p.m. MT). San Diego is back in action on Saturday with the pole vault at 10:30 a.m. MST, the triple jump at 11 a.m. MST, the 60 hurdles semifinals at 11:15 a.m. MST, the 60 semifinals at 11:35 a.m. MST, the mile at 12:10 p.m. MST, the 60 hurdles finals at 12:40 p.m. MST, the 400 at 1:20 p.m. MST, the 60 finals at 1:50 p.m. MST and the 800 at 2:20 p.m. MST.
Check liverunningresults.com throughout the meet for live results and GoAztecs.com after the meet for a full recap and final results.
Last Time Out
A day after winning the 200-meter dash, Ashley Henderson took down the 60 meters to lead the San Diego State track and field team on the final day of the UW Invitational Saturday on Jan. 30 in Seattle.
Henderson ran the fastest prelim time in 7.50 seconds, then edged Seattle Speed's Whitney Rowe at the line to capture the final in 7.42. It was the fifth-fastest time in program history. The qualifying prelims started with 57 entrants. The day before, Henderso beat out 80 other entrants in the 200 with a time of 24.19 seconds. The time tied Allison Reaser (2014) for the 10th-fastest indoor mark in program history.
In the pentathlon, Kassidy Ellis finished with the sixth-highest total in school history with a five-event total of 3,682 points, while the distance medley relay team of Rachel Roesgen (1,200), Lisa-Anne Barrow (400), Ellison Grove (800) and Elaine Ribeiro (1,600) ran the second-fastest time in program history at 12:06.14, just missing the school-record time of 12:05.71 set in 2014.
Seven other Aztecs logged all-time top-10 marks, including five on the track. Grove led the way with the second-fastest indoor 800 in school history in 2:11.04 en route to finishing 13th out of 62 entrants.
Sierra Brabham-Lawrence, meanwhile, only lost to Nike's Dawn Harper in the 60-meter hurdles, clocking a time of 8.43. The 8.43 is tied for the seventh-fastest time in school history.
In the 3,000, three SDSU athletes - Cassidy Towner, Lily Seynaeve and Roesgen - put their names in the record books with all-time top-10 times. Ribeiro was the first San Diego State to cross the finish line in 10:08.70, just over two seconds off a personal best (10:06.55), while Towner (10:15.21), Seynaeve (10:19.36) and Roesgen (10:31.33) ran the fourth, fifth and eighth-fastest times, respectively, in program history.
Je'Neal Ainsworth came in sixth in the triple jump in 39-07.50 (12.08m), good for the eighth-best mark in school history. Alexa Evans etched her named into the record books with the ninth-best weight throw in SDSU history (on Friday), with a toss of 50-09.50 (15.48m).