CORVALLIS, Ore. – A big Friday night in the Pacific Northwest on the back of several personal records and two official top 10 program marks highlighted the University of Hawaii track and field team's weekend at the Oregon State High Performance Meet.
Freshman
Hallee Layman continued her phenomenal freshman campaign with another personal record and maintaining her top 10 mark in school history in the discus. Layman threw the disc 48.95 meters at Oregon State, or 160 feet seven inches.
The freshman finished second in the event and moves into fourth in the conference standings heading into the Big West Championships.
Sophomore
Sophia Morgan posted a significant improvement in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with an 11 minute 40.83 second time, a personal record.
Aided by a 2.2 mile per hour tailwind, freshman
Alyssa Mae Antolin ran a blazing fast 24.76 second 200-meter dash, finishing fourth overall. The mark doesn't improve her time in the program record books, but is a personal record and does give her the five seed entering the Big West Championships later in May.
Freshman
Tierra Sydnor and junior
Kristen LaCosse each had 5.64-meter leaps in the long jump.
A personal record for
Caelan Miller in the 1,500-meter race at 4:44.63 helped the freshman finish seventh.
On Saturday, the 400-meter relay team finished second with a relay time of 47.55 seconds.
Antolin came 0.02 seconds from tying her personal record in the 100-meter dash.
The Rainbow Wahine will have one more shot to improve their marks to get their names inside the top 48 of the West region to earn a ticket to the NCAA West Preliminary Round when the Wahine compete at the Big West Championships May 12-15.