Aztecs Competing at UNM Collegiate Classic

Meet Week Preview
New Mexico Collegiate Classic – February 4-5
Albuquerque, N.M. – Albuquerque Convention Center
Streaming on FloTrack (subscription required)
 
SAN DIEGO –  The Aztec track and field team competes at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic this weekend, the first of three consecutive meets at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The meet will be streamed on FloTrack, which requires a $30 monthly subscription. SDSU's meet the following weekend, the Don Kirby Elite Invitational, will also be on FloTrack.
 
SDSU is one of 20 schools competing, six of which are power-five schools (Arizona State, LSU, Miami, TCU, Texas, and Texas Tech). The Aztecs will have 23 athletes competing across 13 events.
 
The meet gets started with the pentathlon where SDSU will have Sara Absten, Jenna Fee Feyerabend and Ruthie Grant-Williams competing. The pentathlon begins at 10 a.m. PT Friday with the 60m hurdles and ends with the 800m run at 2:50 p.m. PT.
 
Friday's field events include the long jump (3 p.m. PT), the weight throw (3:30 p.m. PT) and the high jump (4 p.m. PT). The first running event is the unseeded 200m at 3:30 p.m. PT with the seeded 200m being run at 5:35 p.m. PT. The 600m will be at 5 p.m. PT and will feature Sakura Roberson and Nyjari McNeil, who have the top two times in school history.
 
On Saturday, the first SDSU event is the 60m dash qualifying round at 9:40 a.m. PT where the top eight times will advance to the first round which is run at 10:50 a.m. PT. The 60m hurdle prelims are at 10:25 a.m. PT with the finals being run at 11:30 a.m. PT. The remaining track schedule is the 400m at 12:15 p.m. PT, the 800m at 1:08 p.m. PT and the 4x400m relay at 1:45 p.m., where the Aztecs ran the second fastest time in school history last week. Saturday's field events are the pole vault (12 p.m. PT), the shot put (9:30 a.m. PT) and the triple jump (10:30 a.m. PT).
 
Aztec Tidbits
• The 4x400m relay team of Rhea Hoyte, Jalyn Harris, Sakura Roberson and Nyjari McNeil finished in 3:39.44 at last week's Texas Tech Open, the second fastest time in SDSU's indoor history. The group of Harris, Roberson and McNeil, along with Danae Dyer, who will return this weekend, ran a 3:33.81 at this event in 2020 and qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Jada Moore ran the 60m dash in 7.442 seconds last week, the eighth fastest time in program history. She also set a new PR in the 200m dash (24.08).
• Sakura Roberson (1:29.84) and Nyjari McNeil (1:29.93) will be competing in the 600m Friday and they have the top two times in school history.
• The Aztecs will be competing in their first pentathlon in nearly two years. Sara Absten finished with 3,694 points at the 2020 Mountain West Indoor Championships, the eighth highest score in program history. She will be joined by Ruthie Grant-Williams and Jenna Fee Feyerabend, the heralded freshman from Germany. Feyerabend had a high jump of 5-05.75 last week, tied for the eighth highest jump in school history.
• Freshman pole vaulter Ashley Callahan made her Aztec debut last week and cleared 13-00.25 (3.97m) to become the 15th Aztec ever to clear that mark. Three current Aztecs have also cleared 3.97m (Kaitlin Heri, Elizabeth Funk and Alysia Allen).
• Five Aztecs will be making their 2022 debut this weekend: Jordyn Bryant (shot put and weight throw), Danae Dyer (60m hurdles), Erica Grotegeer (shot put), Simone Johnson (long and triple jump) and Dejanae Thompson (long and triple jump).
 
Season Preview Notes
• The Aztecs won the Mountain West Outdoor Championship last year with 161 points, their most in the Outdoor Championships since 2013.
• SDSU has won three of the last four and five of the last eight MW Outdoor Championships.
• Head Coach Shelia Burrell won her fifth Mountain West Coach of the Year award last season.
• SDSU won seven gold medals at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships last year. Jada Moore won three golds (100m, 200m and 4x100m relay).
• The Aztecs had 14 All-Mountain West honorees last season and return 13 of them, losing only Maya Brosch (400m hurdles & 4x400m relay) to graduation.
• The SDSU 4x100m relay team qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships last year and all four runners return (Danae Dyer, Tai McDonald, Jada Moore and Aisha Watt). The Aztecs have had a representative in 23 of the last 24 NCAA Outdoor Championships.