WEEKEND WRAPUP: Whittaker wins 1000m race in Zagreb; SPU women win season opener...
Last Tuesday (8 September), Juliette Whittaker (photo courtesy Brooks Running) of the Brooks Beasts won the women's 1000 meter run at the Dinamo Zrinjevac International Athletics Meeting in Zagreb, Croatia.
Whittaker ran 2:36.03 to take the win, with Brooks Beasts teammate Teagan Schein-Becker third in 2:39.83.
On Saturday (12 September), the Seattle Pacific women won the Puget Sound Invitational, contested at Ft. Steilacoom Park.
Freshman Esther Paulson took the victory in 18:26. She was followed by junior Alexa Gossett in 18:36, and junior Anna Prussian in 19:03.
Freshman Jaylynn Erickson was sixth for the Falcons in 19:07, and freshman Jocelyn Schnurbusch was ninth in 19:18, giving Seattle Pacific a 1-5 split of 52 seconds.
The Falcons won with a score of 23 points, followed by Puget Sound's 40 and Northwest University's 91 points.
In the men's 5k race, Seattle Pacific's Avery Erickson was their top finisher in fifth place, as he ran 15:32.
Daniel Ojeda was 12th in 15:57, then dropped off to a 36th place finish from Alejandro Ramos Yin in 17:07, Mason Oleson-Borland in 41st in 17:26, and Silas Demmert in 43rd in 17:38.
Northwest University took the team title with 31 points, with Puget Sound second with 52 points. Seattle Pacific finished fourth in the five-team field with 106 points.
NOTE: World Athletics, Brooks Running and the sports information office of Seattle Pacific contributed to this report.
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