Half of the University of Hawai'i track and field season was completed this year and it was one of the strongest seasons as a team since head coach
Tim Boyce took the helm.
The Rainbow Wahine broke four school records, including a 15-year-old long jump record, set 21 Top-10 marks and scored at the MPSF Championships. The Bows also added three meet wins, all at the Boise State Challenge in Nampa, Idaho.
Junior
Kristen LaCosse has her name next to three of the four school records from the indoor season. LaCosse tied the 15-year-old long jump record early in the season in Idaho, then snapped the 60-meter dash record by 0.04 seconds and ran a leg of the 1,600-meter relay team which broke the record by almost two full seconds at the MPSF Championships in Seattle, Wash.
Three different freshmen posted Top 10 marks during the year, including
Jessica Eagle's two Top 10 marks in the 60 and 200-meter dash. Eagle was joined by
Tierra Sydnor's 10th-best high jump mark, she also ran a leg of the 1,600-relay school record, and
Sophia Lodigiani in the 5,000 meters. Freshman
Sarriah Brown ran a leg of two different 1,600 relay times that landed inside the Top 10, as well.
The school record 1,600-relay team by LaCosse, seniors
Natasha Currence and
Teuila Gardner, and Sydnor at the MPSF Championships was 1.72 seconds faster than the previous record set in 2008 and helped the Bows finish 13th, the highest finish since joining the MPSF in indoor track.
Senior
Calli-Ann Abbott broke her own personal record in the pentathlon at the MPSF Championships including a pentathlon school record in the 60-meter hurdles on her way to the podium at the championship – it was the second time Abbott had scored at the MPSF Championships, her first came in 2017 as a freshman.
Hawai'i added three meet wins at the Boise State Challenge to the season resume. LaCosse won the long jump, freshman
Rebecca DeKay won the 3,000 meters and the 1,600-relay of Garder, LaCosse, Brown and Currence won as well.
Sophomore
Jada Pierce added a Top 10 mark in the weight throw to the 21 Top-10 Marks, junior
Hannah Gaskins added two in the pentathlon and high jump, senior
Britney Price's 10th best 60, Abbott in the long jump and Gardner's school record in the 600-meter run and sixth-best 800 meters rounded out the 21 new top marks.
