Men's Track and Field | 05.13.2021

LA GRANDE, Ore. – LC State Track and Field will start competition on Friday at the two-day Cascade Conference Championships, presented by U.S. Bank, hosted by Eastern Oregon. Several Warriors will be traveling to Oregon to represent Lewis-Clark amongst its conference rivals. A number of athletes have already hit national-qualifying standards and are preparing to compete later this month in Alabama. For some, this is the final opportunity to hit a standard to advance them to nationals and compete in a Warrior uniform one more time. The Warriors will be competing for all-conference honors as well, which is top three in each event.
 
"Looking forward to the weekend," Head Coach Mike Collins said. "First-ever conference championship for us, so that is exciting too. Wish I could say we would be vying for a title, but we just are just not deep enough to score points in a lot of the field events. Hopefully in a few years we will be in a position to grow that part of our program and we will see what happens. A lot of our athletes will have a shot at all-conference, which is top three, so excited to see that and we also have a few that still have a shot at qualifying for nationals."
 
THE WOMEN
In the 100m dash, freshman standout and current school record holder Anika Grogan is seeded with a time of 12.40. Sophomore Nikki Halbert joins her in the event a time of 12.86. Grogan and Halbert will also be racing the 200m dash, with seed times of 25.67 and 26.54, respectively.
 
Junior Karlie Smith and freshman Geraldin Correa will represent the Warriors in the 400m dash. Smith, a member of the national-qualifying 4x400m relay team, enters with a strong time of 58.80 and Correa, having only raced the event once this season, hit the conference standard with a time of 59.04.
 
Four athletes will represent the Warriors in the 800m, with Correa, Rylee Brown, Emily Adams, and Brooklyn Shell all entered in the race. Correa comes in with a time of 2:15.39, which also earned her the B national standard. Brown is seeded at 2:19.34, followed by Adams at 2:20.39. Brown, Correa, and Adams are all members of the national-qualifying 4x800m relay team as well. Shell will run the race for the first time this season.
 
Correa and Brown will also be in action in the 1500m. Having ran the event for the first time this season just last week at Whitworth, they are both fresh and looking to improve their times in the competitive field of 14 racers. Correa is not far from an all-conference honor, coming in seeded fourth with a time of 4:53.84.
 
Callie Johnson is seeded seventh in the 5,000m with a time of 18:48.65. Adams will also join her in the event. Johnson will also race the 3,000m steeplechase that day before the 5,000m, seeded fourth in the event with a 11:51.39. Shell will also be in action in the event, seeded just behind her at sixth with the time of 12:25.21.
 
In the 10,000m run, the duo of Abigail Peightal and Abigail Gorton raced their way to a spot at conference in the event last week in Spokane. Peightal is seeded with a time of 45:22.20 and Gorton comes in at 44:24.37.
The 100m hurdles will be well represented by Warriors. Ashley Britt and Madi Carson will be joined by two freshmen, Keelyn Pilcher and Sarah Hathaway. Britt comes in with the top time of the bunch with a 15.41, followed by Carson at 16.23. Pilcher is seeded as 17.14 and Hathaway is 16. 34.
 
The 400m hurdles will also feature Britt, Hathaway, Pilcher, and junior Rebekka Kalmbach. Kalmbach hit the B national-qualifying standard last week and Britt has earned an A standard as well. Britt comes in with a time of 1:02.91 and Kalmbach raced her way to a seed time of 1:04.48.
 
The 4x100m relay team of Halbert, Kalmbach, Smith and Grogan are seeded third with the time of 48.54.
 
The Warriors will also be racing their top 4x400m relay team, who has hit the automatic national-qualifying standard with their time of 3:52.96. This team is made up of Grogan, Kalmbach, Smith and Britt and is seeded second in the event.
 
Hathaway will be competing in the high jump, coming in with the seed mark of 1.53m. Hathaway will also join Chelsie Testa in the long jump. Testa, a sophomore, is entered with a seed mark of 5.04m. Testa will also be competing in triple jump with freshman teammate Alexa Horsley. Horsley has a mark of 10.29m and Testa has reached 10.66m.
 
In pole vault, Carson comes in with the dominate top seed mark of 3.78m and has also already earned herself an automatic national-qualifying standard in the event. Cynthia Smith, with the mark of 3.28m, and Desiree Winslow, at 2.61m, will join her in the event on Saturday.
 
Delaney Warren and Rylie Overton will both be competing in the discus throw. Warren, who has hit the B national-qualifying standard in the event, comes in with the third best seed mark of 43.48m and Overton has reached the mark of 31.16m.
 
Freshman Kea Stiegltiz will represent the Warriors in the javelin throw. Stiegltiz, who has already earned an automatic national-qualifying standard, comes into the event ranked third with her seed mark of 41.41m.
 
THE MEN
In the 100m dash, Louis Pennow comes in with a seed time of 11.49. Ike Hopper will compete in the 400m dash, entered with a seed time of 50.30.
 
The 800m will be well represented by LC State on the men's side as well, with Clayton VanDyke, and the freshmen trio of Carter Gordon, Conner May, and Cooper Carlson, all set to compete. VanDyke, who has already hit the A national-qualifying standard, is seeded first with a 1:52.23. Gordon enters with a 2:00.95, May with a time of 1:58.34, and Carlson with a 1:57.52.
 
VanDyke will also be in action in the 1500m, seeded first with the time of 3:53.48, which is also an automatic national-qualifying standard. He will be joined by freshman David Phillis, seeded 11^th with the time of 4:17.07.
 
In the 5,000m, Chase Barrow is seeded seventh with a 15:14.32. VanDyke enters with a seed time of 15:24.30, giving him a spot at 13^th.
 
Cole Olsen claims the top spot in the 10,000m run with a dominate seed time of 30:56.96, which earned him an automatic national-qualifying standard. Connor Turpin has a time of 32:35.77, which seeds him fifth in the event.
 
Caleb Moore will be representing the Warriors in the 110m hurdles Friday, with a seed time of 15.83.
 
Sean Spencer and Hopper will compete in the 400m hurdles, with Hopper entered as a 55.03 and Spencer with the time of 56.84.
 
In the 3,000m steeplechase, the freshmen duo of Andrew Larson and Brady Nelsen are set to compete for the Warriors. Larson is seeded seventh with the time of 10:21.19 and Nelsen is seeded tenth at a 10:36.38.
 
The 4x100m relay team of Dillon Novich, Christian Bothwell, Nik Bertling, and Pennow are seeded fourth with a time 44.11.
 
The 4x400m relay team, consisting of Spencer, Hopper, Bothwell and VanDyke, are seeded third with a time of 3:22.78.
 
Andrew Carlyle is ranked fourth in pole vault with the B standard mark of 4.70m. He will be joined by Moore, Bertling and Isaiah Richards in the event. Berlting is seeded sixth (4.53m), Richards enters with a mark of 3.93m and Moore has a mark of 3.90m.
 
Matthew Hroma will throw discus for the Warrior men, coming into the event with a seed mark 40.17m.
 
Jack Hardee and Jaycob Atencio will join each other in the hammer throw Friday. Hardee has a seed mark of 38.32m and Atencio has a mark of 42.54m.
 
In Javelin, Novich and freshman Leon Menton will be competitors in the event. Novich is entered with a seed mark of 47.61m. Menton, who has had an impressive freshman debut for the Warriors, is seeded second in the event with a throw of 63.36m, giving him an automatic national-qualifying standard as well.
 
The full schedule and live results can be found HERE.
 
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