Washington women's distance medley relay team finishes seventh at NCAA D1 championships...
The Huskies, who came into the meet with a seed time of 11:00.35, finished seventh in a time of 11:10.94.
Oregon, with Jessica Hull on the anchor, took the victory in a new facility record time of 10:53.43.
Schadler split 3:26.88, while Apostol ran 55.60. Derby ran 2:05.97, and Burdon’s anchor leg was 4:42.50.
The Washington men’s team of Mick Stanovsek, Cass Elliott, Connor Morello, and Talon Hull finished tenth in a time of 9:44.89.
Stanovsek led off with a 3:01.35 1200 after running the mile, while Elliott’s 400 split was 47.00.
Morello, who had run the 1200 leg earlier in the season, ran 1:50.91 for his 800 leg, while Hull finished with a 4:05.65 1600 leg.
In a thrilling last lap battle, Notre Dame’s Nared Nuguse came back from being overtaken by Stanford’s Grant Fisher on the final lap to give the Irish the win in 9:31.55, despite Fisher running the fastest 1600 split of 3:54.24.
The Cardinal finished second in a time of 9:31.70.
In the women’s 5000 finals, Washington’s Izzi Batt-Doyle finished 12th in a time of 16:06.38, as Wisconsin’s Alicia Monson won in a personal best 15:31.26.
The mens’ 5000 saw Colbert native John Dressel finish 11th in 13:54,58, as Wisconsin’s Morgan McDonald won in a facility record 13:41.76.
In qualifying action Friday, Katie Rainsberger of the University of Washington finished sixth in her heat of the women’s mile to advance to Saturday’s final.
Rainsberger ran 4:39.81 to get one of the time qualifying marks after leading for most of the race. She faded over the last lap but had enough to move on to Saturday’s final.
The Huskies’ Mick Stanovsek finished seventh in his heat of the mile, and missed advancing to Saturday’s final, running 4:07.87.
Like Rainsberger, Stanovsek pushed the pace in the middle portion of the race, but faded over the last lap, as all of the time qualifiers advanced from his heat.
In the previous heat of the mile, Washington State’s Paul Ryan finished eighth, running 4:12.07.
In the men’s 60 meter dash, Rainier Beach HS grad Emmanuel Wells of Washington State finished eighth in his heat, running 6.67, and did not advance.
Saturday, Mountlake Terrace HS grad Chinne Okoronkwo, who transferred from Wisconsin to Texas Tech, is in the pole vault and the triple jump.
The Huskies will have Rainsberger in both the mile and 3000, and Fred Huxham in the men’s 3000 meter finals.
ESPN3 will have live streaming action from the NCAA D1 championships beginning at 2:10 pm.
The results from day 1 of the NCAA D1 championships are available here.
NOTE: The NCAA contributed to this report.
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