Meet Week Preview
NCAA Indoor Championships | Birmingham, Ala. | Univ. of Alabama-Birmingham
San Diego Collegiate Challenge | La Jolla, Calif. | UC San Diego
Oxy Distance Carnival | Los Angeles, Calif. | Occidental College
March 9, 2019
Live Stream: ESPN3/WatchESPN (For NCAAs)
Bonnie Draxler Set for NCAA Indoor Championships
Pole vaulter Bonnie Draxler (Wrightstown, Wisc.) will be representing the Aztecs in the NCAA Indoor Championships in Birmingham, Ala. this Saturday. The pole vault competition begins at 2:00 p.m. PT. ESPN will be streaming the meet, but their main coverage will be on the track events.
Draxler was recently named the USTFCCCA West Region Field Athlete of the Year and set the SDSU and Mountain West Indoor record (14-10.00) last month. Two weeks ago, she won her fourth Mountain West pole vault title to become the first athlete (male or female) to accomplish that feat. Her season-best mark of 14-10.00 is the third best in the country.
This will be Draxler's third time competing at the NCAA's. She finished in 16th at the Indoor Championships last year and 21st at the 2017 outdoor championships.
Aztecs Kick Off Outdoor Season at Two SoCal Meets
While Bonnie Draxler is competing at the NCAA Indoor Championships, the rest of the Aztecs will begin their outdoor season. The majority of the team will compete at UCSD's San Diego Collegiate Challenge while eight distance runners will be at the Occidental Distance Carnival.
At the SD Collegiate Challenge, six athletes will be competing in two events: Cari Acosta (discus & hammer throws), Lisa-Anne Barrow (100m & LJ), Jordyn Bryant (discus throw and javelin), Carina Clark (200m & 400m hurdles), Kasey Ebb (100m & 200m) and Lakin Hatcher (100m & 200m).
Mountain West Championship Tidbits
- The Aztecs finished in third place. They have finished in the top four every year since 2010.
- SDSU won two events, the pole vault (Bonnie Draxler) and the 4x400m relay.
- The 4x400m relay team of Kasey Ebb, Lisa-Anne Barrow, Maya Brosch and Sakura Roberson finished in 3:39.52 to set a new program record. They beat the previous record set two years ago by 0.64 seconds.
- The record-breaking 4x400m relay team consisted of a freshman, two sophomores and a senior.
- Sophomore sprinters Callista Fletcher and Jalyn Harris both were finalists in two events. Fletcher finished in fifth in both the 60m (7.43) and the 200m (24.00). Harris earned a second place finish in the 400m (54.65) and finished in seventh in the 200m (24.94).
- Sophomore Asia Smith finished second in the pentathlon with 3,916 points, the third best score in school history. She set a new PR in four of the five events and had top three finishes in the high jump, shotput and long jump.
- Bonnie Draxler (1st, pole vault), Asia Smith (2nd, pentathlon) and Jalyn Harris (2nd, 400m) and the 4x400m relay team of Kasey Ebb, Lisa-Anne Barrow, Maya Brosch and Sakura Roberson were named to the Mountain West all-conference team.