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 11
th 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.
WSU Results
WSU Women
Pentathlon
200m
High Jump
Weight Throw
- Gracie Stickland 11.52m (37-09.50) [51st]
WSU Men
Heptathlon
200m
- De'Antate Choates 22.16 [22nd] PR
- Jared McAlvey 21.60 [7th]
800m
High Jump
