Cougs shine in the 200m on day two of the WSU Open & Multi

Thursday, February 2

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WSU Open & Multi

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February 03, 2023 | Track & Field

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Seven top-ten finishes in the men's and women's 200m dash events combined highlighted the second day for Washington State's indoor track and field teams at the WSU Open & Multi Friday at The Podium. The men's and women's 200m groups claimed also notched four personal-best times combined.

Washington State's women had four student-athletes crack the top 11 in the 200m field, with four season-best times and two PR's in the event. Jasneet Nijjar led WSU as she sprinted to a personal- best 24.2 time to take fifth. Her teammate, Maribel Caicedo, finished just behind in the same heat of the 200m at 24.27 seconds. Senior from Eugene, Ore, Elise Unruh-Thomas, stayed strong throughout her sprint and cruised into an eighth-place overall finish at 24.33 seconds. Junior Skyler Walton hit her season-best time in the event (24.26) to place 11th in the field.

The men's 200m squad produced four top-ten finishes with multiple season-best and personal-best times. Snohomish, Wash native Ethan Willems led the way, taking third with a personal-best time of 21.53. Jared McAlvey sprinted into a seventh-place finish at 21.60 while teammate John Paredes finished just behind McAlvey with a 21.66 second time to place eighth in the field. Making his Cougar debut in the 200m, freshman Louie Hinchliffe rounded out the overall top 10 with a 21.78.

Junior Lee Walburn wrapped up the heptathlon with 5152 points to claim fifth overall in the two-day event. Walburn notched a season-best time in every event in the heptathlon, including PR's in both the 60m hurdles (8.58) and pole vault (4.72m).

Senior Daylon Hicks capped off the second night for WSU by matching his season-best mark in the high jump at 2.03m to claim seventh.

NEXT UP:

Washington State track and field will compete Saturday in the final day of the 2023 WSU Open. The women's shot put set to lead off the field events at 11 a.m. The qualifying round of the women's 60m hurdles, scheduled for 10:30 a.m., will lead off the final day's running events while the women's pole vault and the women's shot put will lead off the day's field events at 11 a.m. WSU will see its indoor squad split up again next weekend to travel between the Don Kirby Elite (Feb. 10-11) in the Albuquerque Convention Center, the Husky Classic (Feb. 10-11) at the Dempsy Indoor, and the Whitworth Open (Feb. 11) back in The Podium.

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WSU Results

WSU Women

Pentathlon

- Sarah Kovich , 3145 pts (21st)

- Renick Meyer [DNF]

200m

- Maribel Caicedo 24.27 SB [6th]

- Mackenzie Fletcher 25.61 [42nd]

- Ashley Hollenbeck 25.70 [47th]

- Jasneet Nijjar 24.21 PR [5th]

- Elise Unruh-Thomas 24.33 [8th]

- Skyler Walton 24.46 SB [11th]