Meet Week Preview
Don Kirby Elite Invitational
February 13-14, 2020
Albuquerque, N.M. - Albuquerque Convention Center
Live Stream: FloTrack ($)
The Aztec track and field team will return to Albuquerque, N.M. for the third time in four weeks for the Don Kirby Elite Invitational on Feb. 13-14. The meet will be streamed on FloTrack, which requires a paid subscription to view.
SDSU will send 23 athletes to compete in 10 events. Thursday's field events for the Aztecs include the weight throw (12 p.m. PT, Felicia Crenshaw) and the high jump (12:30 p.m. PT, Jade Cany) and on the track five runners will compete in the 200m dash at 4:30 p.m. PT.
Friday's competition kicks off with the shot put at 7:30 a.m. where Jordyn Bryant, Erica Grotegeer and Felicia Crenshaw will be throwing. After taking a week off, the Aztec vaulters will be in action at 8 a.m. PT.
Friday's track events include the 60m hurdles (8:30 a.m. PT), the 60m dash (9:10 a.m. PT), the mile run (11:15 a.m. PT), the 400m dash (12:15 p.m. PT) and the 800m run (12:55 p.m. PT).
New Mexico Collegiate Classic Recap
- Last weekend the Aztecs 4x400m relay team beat the SDSU school record by nearly six seconds to etch their names in the record books. Jalyn Harris, Danae Dyer, Sakura Roberson and Nyjari McNeil finished in 3:33.81, besting the previous record of 3:39.52 set at last year's Mountain West Indoor Championships. SDSU's time gives them the eighth fastest in the nation. The Aztecs have never had a 4x400m relay team qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
- Sakura Roberson also won the 400m dash with a personal best time of 54.25, the sixth best time in school history.
- Jada Moore broke the SDSU freshmen record she just set by finishing the 60m dash in 7.47. She broke her own record of 7.49 set last week.
- Sonja Andenmatten made her SDSU debut in the 600m run and finished in 1:33.51, good for sixth place and the fourth best time in school history.
- Vanessa Spizewski earned a second-place finish in the long jump with a new PR jump of 18-07.25 (5.67m).
Aztec Tidbits
- The Aztecs are in the top 25 in the USTFCCCA Event Squad rankings in five events: the 400m dash (No. 14), the pole vault (No. 15), the 800m run (No. 19), the 200m dash (No. 25) and the 60m hurdles (No. 25).
-After just three weeks, there are already 16 new entries, including eight in the top five into the Aztec indoor all-time top ten record book.
- Three of the top 4x400m relay times in school history have come within the past calendar year.
- Nyjari McNeil, just a sophomore, has top three times in SDSU's indoor history in the 400m (3rd, 54.02), 600m (2nd, 1:29.93) and the 800m (1st, 2:08.30).
- This will be the Aztecs third of five competitions in Albuquerque, N.M. They will be back for the MW Indoor Championships (Feb. 27-29) and the NCAA Indoor Championships (March 13-14) there as well.
- The Aztecs have 36 underclassmen on the 2020 team and just five seniors.
- In addition to the 14 freshmen that joined the team, SDSU added five transfers giving them 19 newcomers.
- 38 of the 53 members on the team are from California.
- SDSU is one of the top pole vault programs in the country and have crowned 26 Mountain West Championships under assistant coach Rich Fox. Bonnie Draxler, who was the NCAA runner-up in both indoor and outdoor last season, has graduated but SDSU returns four vaulters and added Washington State transfer Molly Scharmann, who finished fourth at last year's Pac-12 Outdoor Championships.
Aztecs Back in Albuquerque for Don Kirby Invite
