Katie Nageotte wins second national title at Toyota USATF Indoor Championships...
However, the story behind the victory was that she needed an all-or-nothing clearance at 15-1.5 (4.61m) on her third attempt to get the win, after passing the previous height of 14-11.5 (4.56m), a height that Annie Rhodes and Kristen Leland made.
Rhodes and Leland missed their three attempts at 15-1.5 to give Nageotte the win.
Former Renton resident Devon Allen won his first USA Track & Field national indoor hurdles championship
Allen won his semifinal heat of the 60 meter hurdles earlier in the day, running 7.70, then clocked 7.60 to beat Aaron Mallett (7.64) and Josh Thompson (7.69).
In the men’s mile, Henry Wynne of the Brooks Beasts finished second behind Craig Engels of the Beaverton-based Nike Oregon Project.
Engels ran 3:59.69, while Wynne came from off the pace to get second in 4:00.20.
University of Washington volunteer assistant coach Sam Prakel was fourth in 4:01.76, while David Ribich of the Brooks Beasts was sixth in 4:03.08.
Bellevue's Katie Burnett finished second in the women's 3000 race walk in 13:14.09.
Brannon Kidder of the Brooks Beasts was third in the 1000 meter run, in a time of 2:21.23, in a race won by Clayton Murphy of the Nike Oregon Project in 2:20.36.
In the women’s 2 mile, Katie Mackey of the Brooks Beasts led three Washington alums in the top seven across the line.
Mackey ran 9:33.70 to finish behind winner Shelby Houlihan’s 9:31.38, while Mel Lawrence was sixth in 9:46.11, and Eleanor Fulton was seventh in 9:48.98.
Allie Buchalski of the Brooks Beasts was 16th in 9:55.92.
Complete results of the Toyota USATF Indoor Championships are available here.
COLLEGE ROUNDUP
McGee jumped 51-5 (15.67m) on his first attempt to easily win the competition.
He only had one other fair jump in the competition, and that came in the sixth and final round.
The junior became the second Eastern competitor to sweep the long jump and triple titles indoors, with Eastern Hall of Famer Kurt Kraemer claiming both in 2001.
Over the course of the meet, Eastern had four men's athletes and four women's athletes earn All-Big Sky Conference honors by finishing in the top three. On Friday, there were three all-conference performances (one by the men, two by the women).
The men finished in fourth place with 57.50 points while the women finished in ninth with 48 points. Sacramento State won the women’s title with 100 points, while Northern Arizona won the men’s crown with 178.5 points.
Eastern Washington’s release is available here, while the results of the Big Sky Championships are available here.
In Seattle Saturday night, Central Washington’s Mariyah Vongsaveng, Western Washington’s Anna Paradee, and Seattle Pacific’s Scout Cai and Kate Lilly all solidified their chances of earning spots in the NCAA Division II indoor championships at the Seattle Pacific Last Chance meet at the Dempsey Indoor on the campus of the University of Washington.
Vongsaveng won the women’s 60 hurdles in 8.62 to improve her season best from 8.66, set at the UW Invitational in late January.
She ran 8.65 in the semifinals, before running 8.62 to win the finals. Vongsaveng’s mark puts her number 12 on the NCAA descending order list.
The official list of those accepted for nationals comes out on Tuesday afternoon. The NCAA has a "desired minimum" of 16 athletes for individual events, although athletes beyond those 16 are sometimes added, depending on the overall strength of a particular event.
The women’s mile saw the Falcons’ Kate Lilly run a personal best 4:52.21, behind winner Nancy Jeptoo of Alaska Anchorage’s 4:51.09 to put both in the D2 top 16.
In the women’s pole vault, both Western Washington’s Anna Paradee and SPU’s Scout Cai cleared 12-8.25 (3.87m) to finish second and fourth, respectively.
Their marks put them in a seven-way tie for 11th on the NCAA D2 list, which should get them into the national championships, though Cai is already in the pentathlon, where she’s third on the national list at 3815 points.
Stanford’s Kaitlyn Merritt won the event with a jump of 13-7 (4.14m), one day after winning the MPSF title at Dempsey. Merritt attempted 14-2.75 (4.34m), a mark which would have put her 12th on the NCAA D1 descending order list.
One of the best races of the evening was in the men’s distance medley relay, as Simon Fraser (9:49.47), Alaska Anchorage (9:50.19), and Western Oregon (9:50.69) all got themselves in the top 12 on the D2 descending order list.
Western Washington had hoped to join the other three GNAC schools, but finished fourth in 9:57.56, which was the second fastest time in school history, and just short of the school record of 9:55.00 set in 2007.
Complete results of the SPU Last Chance meet are available here.
NOTE: The sports information offices of Eastern Washington University, Central Washington University, Seattle Pacific University, Western Washington University and USA Track & Field contributed to this report. TFRRS provided statistical information.
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