Women's Track and Field | 05.09.2024

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KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. – The postseason begins for LC State Track and Field on Friday at the 2024 Cascade Conference Track and Field Championships, presented by U.S. Bank, on the campus of Oregon Tech. The Warriors will compete in the two-day meet with All-CCC honors on the line and for a final chance to hit national marks.
 
Live scoring will be available throughout the meet with links on lcwarriors.com. The top-three finishers in each event will earn All-Cascade Conference honors.
 
THE WOMEN
The Warrior women will kick off track events with the 4x100m relay, an event in which LC is seeded at the top. Emily Collins, Anika Grogan, Madigan Kelly and Karissa Lindner enter the weekend at the top-ranked CCC team in the event. The Warriors are also the top-ranked team in the 4x400m relay with the group of Collins, Grogan, Kelly and Sydnie Zywina.
 
Kelly is the top-ranked 100m hurdler in the CCC with Jennah Carpenter seeded seventh and Sara Hathaway 12^th. Kelly also enters as the CCC leader in the 400m hurdles with Hathaway seeded fourth. Collins is second in the 400m and Grogan is 10^th. Lindner is ranked No. 11 in the long jump. Lindner is fifth in the 100m dash with Grogan as the No. 10 seed.
 
Lewiston native Carpenter will also be in action at the No. 2 seed in the long jump and third in the high jump. Orofino's Zywina is seeded second in the triple jump.
 
Kea Stieglitz is the third-seeded competitor in the javelin with Gianna Anderson ranked 16^th. Pole vaulter Emberlynn Mack enters the meet at the No. 7 ranked competitor in the CCC.
 
Throwers Grace Osborne and Haylee Appleford qualified in multiple events. Osborne is seeded 11^th in the hammer,10^th in the discus and 12^th in the shot put, and Appleford is 17^th in the hammer, third in the discus and sixth in the shot put.
 
In distance events, Grace Tiegs is the No. 10 seed in the 800m and 12^th in the 1,500m and Aubree Williams is 11^th in the 800m and 14^th in the 1,500m. Abigail Gorton is ranked third in the 10,000m.
 
THE MEN
The LC State men's 4x100m relay team of Jedidiah Barnaby, Jordan Castillo, London Kirk and Preston Cooper is seeded second, and the 4x400m squad of Carter Gordon, Ike Hopper, Kirk and Trenton Johnson also ranks second.
 
Kirk is the No. 2 seed in the 400m with Gordon ranked ninth. Barnaby ranks fifth in the 100m dash with Castillo seeded 10^th and Cooper 13^th. Barnaby is the No. 8 seed in the 200m, Cooper is No. 10 and Castillo is 13^th.
 
Hopper is the No. 2 seed in the 110m hurdles and No. 4 in the 400m hurdles, and Ian Gardom enters the weekend seeded fifth in the 110m event.
 
In distance events, Gordon ranks at the top of the CCC in the 800m and Griffen Parsells is second. Kobe Wessels is in the No. 6 seed, Conner May ranks eighth, Cooper Carlson is 12^th and Tristin O'Brien is 20^th. Parsells is the fourth seeded runner in the 1,500m and Wessels is seventh.
 
Senior Brycen Brown is the No. 3 seed in the 3,000m steeplechase fresh off his national-qualifying run at the UO Twilight. Freshman Keith Uitdewilligen is seeded ninth. Alexander Fry is ranked ninth in the 10,000m, Connor Alexander is 12^th, Brycen Kempton is 14^th and Clay Shumaker is 15^th. Luke Sellmann will run in the 5,000m event ranked No. 16.
 
James Bogdanowicz is the fifth-seeded pole vaulter at the conference meet. Johnson is seventh in the long jump and third in the triple jump. Sam Weller is the No. 11 seed in the hammer and Tanner Beltz-Childs is ranked 16^th. Weller ranks seventh in the shot put. Gardom ranks 10^th in the high jump entering the weekend.
 
THE DETAILS
Action kicks off in Klamath Falls on Friday at 2 p.m. Events start at 11 a.m. on Saturday. Links to scoring, schedules and heat sheets can be found at cascadeconference.org.
 
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