UW's Comin Pescador & Schlueter, WSU's Mahacek & prep Gero-Holt begin Mt. SAC multis Wednesday...

Washington's Jami Schlueter (L) and Bruno Comin 
Pescador return to Mt. SAC to compete in the 
decathlon at the Mt. SAC Relays (Paul Merca photo)

The Mt SAC Relays, a traditional fixture for many of the state's nine Division I and II schools, begins Wednesday with the multi event competitions at Hilmer Lodge Stadium on the campus of Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California.

However, with meets such as the Bryan Clay Invitational, which is weighed heavily towards the distance runners, and the three day Pacific Coast Invitational/Beach Invitational moving their date ahead one week, the Mt SAC Relays is the only major meet contested in Southern California this weekend, and with the exception of Saint Martin's, the other Washington D1 and D2 teams used their budgets to send squads to Long Beach and Azusa last week.

Washington is the only school that will have a major presence in Walnut this weekend, as its sprinters, jumpers, and throwers, who stayed home last week, return to the track where the Huskies won its first Pac-12 men's conference championship last year.

Action gets underway Wednesday with the decathlon and heptathlon, where Washington's Bruno Comin Pescador and Jami Schlueter, along with Washington State's Mason Mahacek will compete in two separate sections of the elite decathlon.

Comin Pescador, a two-time NCAA heptathlon scorer & the reigning Spanish national decathlon champ, will be in the top section of the decathlon, which features Wisconsin alum and Tokyo Olympian Zach Ziemek, along with two time world championships competitor and Stanford alum Harrison Williams.

Mahacek, who was originally scheduled to compete in last week's Bryan Clay decathlon, makes his outdoor season debut in the multis, along with Schlueter in the second section of the elite decathlon.

The second section of the elite decathlon gets under way at 10 am Wednesday, while the top section begins at 11:30 am.

JaiCieonna Gero-Holt of Emerald Ridge HS in Puyallup, the reigning USA U-20 champion in the heptathlon, is entered in the elite section of the heptathlon, where she'll face a field that includes the top three finishers at last year's NCAA championships, plus US Olympians from Tokyo Erica Bougard and Annie Kunz.

The main portion of the Mt. SAC Relays gets underway Thursday.

The accepted entries into the Mt. SAC Relays is available here, while the link to live results are available here.

NOTE: The Mt. SAC Relays and the sports information offices of the  University of Washington, and Washington State University contributed to this report.

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