SAN DIEGO – San Diego State women’s track and field made a schedule adjustment, forgoing the Stanford Invitational and Florida Pepsi Relays due to nationwide travel difficulties, in favor of a more local meet hosted by UC San Diego. The Triton Invitational will be a two-day competition from April 3-4 that will feature 56 individual entries for San Diego State.
The pole vault team, which is currently ranked second in the nation according to the USTFCCCA Event Squad rankings, will have six entries. Isabella Nilsen continues to lead the way as she is the only Aztec to have cleared 4.00m so far, this outdoor season. Both Sydney Ash and Jordan Leveque will both look to break the 4.00m barrier as both have vaulted 3.96m or better outdoors.
The 400-meter dash will also be filled with Aztec athletes with an additional six individuals set to race. Freshman Shari Hurdman has been a revelation in her first year with SDSU. During the indoor season she ran the programs third fastest 400m and currently owns the team’s fastest outdoor time, 53.63 which she ran at the Jim Bush Legends meet at UCLA. Karina Janik is set to compete in the 400-meter hurdles as well. She will be the first Aztec to race the hurdles this season.
The distance team will look to build upon a solid showing at last week’s Bob Larsen Distance Carnival. Samantha Wood, fresh off setting the program’s third fastest time in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, will once again race the steeplechase. She is currently the owner of the second fastest time in the Mountain West. Eight runners will race the 1,500-meter as well, headlined by Sara Jones. Jones also cracked the SDSU top 10 for the 1,500 last week.
In the jumping pits, two-time NCAA indoor all-American Xiamara Young is going to make her outdoor long jump debut. She will be joined by Jenna Fee Feyerabend, Giselle Galles and Alexandria Rogers in the long jump while Galles and Alyssa Alumbres compete in the triple jump.
The Aztec’s eighth ranked 100-meter hurdles crew will look to get a boost from all-conference standout Charlize James. James battled injuries earlier in the season but will now join Jada Pierre, Jenna Fee Feyerabend, Brinley Campbell and Ana Luisa Couto Soares Ferraz to build out one of the top hurdle teams in the nation.
The Triton Invitational is set to begin Friday, April 3 at 9:00 a.m. PST with the first Aztecs beginning to compete in the long jump. Saturday’s events will begin at 9:00 a.m. PST as well, starting with the throws,
Individual Notes
- San Diego State’s pole vault team is currently ranked #2 in the nation according to USTFCCCA. The 400-meter dash team is ranked fifth and the 100-meter hurdles team is ranked eighth.
- The Aztecs have posted seven first place finishes so far during the outdoor season. Jenna Fee Feyerabend and Jada Pierre lead the way with two first place victories apiece.