MEET NOTES (PDF)

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Portland State track & field team returns to action with a vengeance this Saturday, as several Vikings idle during last week's season-opening meets will compete at the Bronco Invitational this weekend at Jacksons Indoor Track in Nampa, Idaho.
 
Among the Vikings competing for the first time this season, the team's distance crew will make several 2016 debuts Saturday, as the team will run several athletes in the men's and women's mile and men's and women's 3,000 meters. Spencer Russell and Ben Richardson return in the men's mile after running the 800 meters at the UW Indoor Preview last weekend, but freshman Kaila Ann Gibson and Nevina De Luca will make their PSU indoor debuts in the women's mile. Eleven Vikings will run in the men's and women's 3,000 meters, meanwhile, as Cheryn Trapp, Maggie Coleman, Sarah Medved, Kennedy Martin, Jocelyn Reynolds and Katie Hendricks run in the women's race; while Neil Seibert, Alex Cisneros, Justin Wikler, Ethan Cotton and Jacob Hicks run in the men's race.
 
Of the Vikings in the men's and women's 3,000 meters, Medved, Cisneros and Reynolds will be running in their first events ever at Portland State, while Cotton, Hicks and Wikler will be running in their first-ever indoor events.
 
Junior Akayla Anderson will also make her 2016 debut in the 60-meter hurdles, after finishing second in the Big Sky in the event last season. Anderson will be taking over the hurdles mantle at Portland State this season, taking the reins from Jazmin Ratcliff, who ended her career with three straight conference titles in the short hurdles.
 
Portland State will also compete in the men's and women's 4x400-meter relay for the first time this season, with Kris Tollefson, Nyalual Beng, Rachel Vinjamuri and Whitney Diggs running on the women's side; and Mitchell Gable, Kevin Robinson, Spencer Russell and Sheldon Prince running for the men.
 
Elsewhere, Jean-Luc Toku will double in the men's long jump and triple jump, making his PSU debut after taking all-state honors in each event as a senior in high school last spring.
 
The Vikings will get started at the Bronco Invitational at 8 a.m. (MT) Saturday, as Donté Robinson, Kevin Robinson and Rockwell Tufty compete in the men's high jump. Running events, meanwhile, get started at 10 a.m. (MT) with the prelims of the women's 60 meters, with Genna Settle, Adia White and Brandi Williams competing for Portland State.
 
MEET INFORMATION:
Jan. 23, 2016 – Bronco Invitational – Nampa Idaho (Jacksons Indoor Track)
 
LIVE RESULTS:
Live results will be available for both meets this weekend. Fans can find the link to live results on the track & field schedule page on GoViks.com
 
BRONCO INVITATIONAL SCHEDULE
Saturday, Jan. 23
Field Events
Start (MT)                 Event (PSU entries)
8 a.m.                          Men's High Jump (Robinson, K., Tufty, Robinson, D.)
8:30 a.m.                    Men's Weight Throw (Flight 1 – Dent)
10 a.m.                        Women's Long Jump – Pit #1 (Flight 2 – Williams, Cook; Flight 3 – Richey)
11 a.m.                        Men's Long Jump – Pit #2 (Flight 1 – Robinson, D.; Flight 2 – Schmidt, Toku)
2 p.m.                          Women's High Jump (Garrity)
2:30 p.m.                    Women's Triple Jump – Pit #1 (Flight 2 – Richey, Cook)
2:30 p.m.                    Men's Triple Jump – Pit #2 (Toku)
 
Running Events
Start (MT)                 Event (PSU entries)
10 a.m.                        Women's 60 Meters – Prelims (Heat 3 – Settle; Heat 4 – White; Heat 5 – Williams)
10:20 a.m.                  Men's 60 Meters – Prelims (Heat 5 – Schmidt)
10:40 a.m.                  Women's 60-Meter Hurdles – Prelims (Heat 3 – Anderson)
10:55 a.m.                  Men's 60-Meter Hurdles – Prelims (Heat 1 – Robinson, K.)
11:30 a.m.                  Women's Mile (Section 1 – Gibson; Section 3 – De Luca)
11:50 a.m.                  Men's Mile (Section 1 – Richardson, Russell)
12:25 p.m.                  Men's 60-Meter Hurdles – Final
12:35 p.m.                  Women's 60-Meter Hurdles – Final
12:45 p.m.                  Women's 60 Meters – Final
12:50 p.m.                  Men's 60 Meters – Final
12:55 p.m.                  Women's 400 Meters (Section 1 – Diggs; Section 2 – Vinjamuri; Section 4 – Beng; Section 6 – Tollefson, Miller)
1:25 p.m.                    Men's 400 Meters (Section 1 – Gable; Section 5 – Wood)
2:05 p.m.                    Women's 200 Meters (Section 1 – Diggs, Settle; Section 5 – Vinjamuri, White)
2:45 p.m.                    Men's 200 Meters (Section 2 – Prince; Section 5 – Gable; Section 6 – Schmidt; Section 9 – Wood)
3:20 p.m.                    Women's 3,000 Meters (Section 1 – Trapp, Coleman; Section 2 – Medved, Martin, Reynolds, Hendricks)
3:50 p.m.                    Men's 3,000 Meters (Section 1 – Seibert, Cisneros; Section 2 – Wikler, Cotton, Hicks)
4:15 p.m.                    Women's 4x400-Meter Relay (Section 3 – Portland State 'A' – Tollefson, Beng, Vinjamuri, Diggs)
4:30 p.m.                    Men's 4x400-Meter Relay (Section 2 – Portland State 'A' – Gable, Robinson, Russell, Prince)
 
COMING UP:
The Vikings head back to Dempsey Indoor for the UW Invitational in Seattle, Wash., next weekend, Jan. 29-30.
 
UW INDOOR PREVIEW RECAP:
Senior sprinter Sheldon Prince picked up the Vikings' first Big Sky auto qualifying mark in the 400 meters, as he finished in 48.84 seconds to lead the Vikings at the UW Indoor Preview, Jan. 16, at the Dempsey Indoor Facility. Several other Vikings came close to auto marks, none closer than sophomore sprinter/jumper Spenser Schmidt, who came within one centimeter short of the distance needed to qualify for the meet, as he jumped 22-07.25 (6.89m). Senior high jumper Rockwell Tufty also took three attempts at what would have been a Big Sky qualifying mark of 2.05 meters, but missed on all three despite clearing his first two heights on his first attempt. Additionally, senior Spencer Russell and junior Ben Richardson came within a second of hitting the Big Sky auto mark in the 800 meters, as they finished within .03 seconds of each other at 1:54.70 and 1:54.73, respectively. Freshman sprinter Rachel Vinjamuri also had an impressive debut in the 400 meters, as she led three Vikings in the event with her time of 57.36 seconds, which moved her up to fifth all-time at Portland State in the event just one race into her PSU career.
 
ED JACOBY INVITATIONAL RECAP:
Senior Kevin Robinson completed his first heptathlon at Portland State, finishing fifth at the Ed Jacoby Invitational with 4,369 points, Jan. 16, at the Jacksons Indoor Track. Robinson went over 700 points in two events, as he tied for first overall with a clearance of 6-05.25 (1.96m) in the high jump to end the first day of the competition and then opened the second day of the competition with his time of 8.89 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles. Sophomore Donté Robinson also competed at the meet, but was unable to clear a height in the pole vault and did not finish. Donté Robinson had been off to a good start in the heptathlon, as he topped 700 points in the 60 meters (7.44 seconds) and high jump (6-04.00, 1.93m).
 
BIG SKY QUALIFIERS:
Senior sprinter Sheldon Prince hit the Big Sky qualifying mark in the 400 meters last Saturday at the UW Indoor Preview, assuring him of competing at the Big Sky meet in Bozeman, Mont., Feb. 25-27. The top 16 declared athletes in each event qualify for the meet, with the rest of the field after the auto qualifiers filled in following the descending order list within the conference. The combined events are the only ones that differ from that as only the top 14 declared athletes qualify in each of those events.
 
PSU BIG SKY AUTO QUALIFIERS:
Men:
Sheldon Prince – 400m – 48.84 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
 
VIKINGS IN BIG SKY TOP 16:
Women:
60m
1. Three way tie – 7.53 – multiple meets
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5. Genna Settle (PSU) – 7.69 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Samantha Raines (EWU) – 7.96 – Candy Cane VII Invitational (12/4/15)
 
200m
1. Natasha Brown (UND) – 24.39 – Bison Classic (1/16/16)
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7. Whitney Diggs (PSU) – 25.42 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
8. Genna Settle (PSU) – 25.43 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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11. Rachel Vinjamuri (PSU) – 25.75 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Maddison Ward (ISU) – 26.03@ – Snake River Open (1/15/16)
 
400m
1. Tianna McKinney (UND) – 57.05 – South Dakota State University Holiday Invite (12/4/15)
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4. Rachel Vinjamuri (PSU) – 57.36 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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8. Whitney Diggs (PSU) – 57.88 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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11. Dejuanae Toliver (PSU) – 58.99 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Victoria Lanza (ISU) – 59.71@ – Snake River Open (1/15/16)
 
800m
1. Cammy Sargent (UNC) – 2:13.55 – 2016 Holiday Inn Invitational (1/15/16)
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9. Nyalual Beng (PSU) – 2:20.19 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Kris Tollefson (PSU) – 2:22.72 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
 
Long Jump
1. Alisha Allen (UNC) – 19-00.00 (5.79m) – CSM Alumni Classic & Multi (12/10/15)
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12. Brandi Williams (PSU) – 17-08.25 (5.39m) – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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14. Ta'mara Richey (PSU) – 17-06.00 (5.33m) – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Natalie Migliozzi (UNC) – 17-04.25 (5.29m) – CSM Alumni Classic & Multi (12/10/15)
 
Triple Jump
1. Dominique Butler (EWU) – 37-00.25 (11.28m) – Candy Cane VII Invitational (12/4/15)
2. ChaQuinn Cook (PSU) – 36-11.75 (11.27m) – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Emma Furth (EWU) – 35-02.00 (10.72m) – Candy Cane VII Invitational (12/4/15)
 
Men:
60m
1. Jeremy VanAssche (EWU) – 6.84 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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15. Spenser Schmidt (PSU) – 7.04 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
16. Khalil Abdul-Hakim (ISU) – 7.05@ - Snake River Open (1/15/16)
 
200m
1. James Fisher (NAU) – 21.50@ - Lumberjack Team Challenge 2016 (1/16/16)
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9. Sheldon Prince (PSU) – 22.27 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Bryce Adams (UNC) – 22.69 – 2016 Holiday Inn Invitational (1/15/16)
 
400m
1. Ben Ayesu-Attah (UI) – 47.82 – Idaho Vandal Indoor Invitational (1/16/16)
2. Sheldon Prince (PSU) – 48.84 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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8. Mitchell Gable (PSU) – 49.65 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Brandan Harley (SUU) – 50.46@ – Lumberjack Team Challenge 2016 (1/16/16)
 
800m
1. Josh Hartford (WSU) – 1:52.68@ – Snake River Open (1/15/16)
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4. Spencer Russell (PSU) – 1:54.70 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
5. Ben Richardson (PSU) – 1:54.73 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Joseph Fenstermacher (UND) – 1:57.95 – Bison Classic (1/16/16)
 
60m Hurdles
1. Jonathan McUne (WSU) – 8:17@ – Wildcat Winter Open (12/4/15)
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16. Ryan Conan (SUU) – 8.84@ – Lumberjack Team Challenge 2016 (1/16/16)
17. Kevin Robinson (PSU) – 8.89 – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
 
High Jump
1. Anthony Gregory (WSU) – 6-10.75 (2.10m) – Wildcat Winter Open (12/4/15)
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T-4. Rockwell Tufty (PSU) – 6-06.75 (2.00m) – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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7. Kevin Robinson (PSU) – 6-05.00 (1.96m) – Ed Jacoby Invitational (1/15/16)
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12. Donté Robinson (PSU) – 6-04.00 (1.93m) – Ed Jacoby Invitational (1/15/16)
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T-15. Four tied – 6-02.75 (1.90m) – Several meets
 
Long Jump
1. Deante Gaines (ISU) – 23-10.25 (7.27m) – Snake River Open (1/15/16)
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6. Spenser Schmidt (PSU) – 22-07.25 (6.89m) – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
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16. Charlie Bush (UM) – 20-09.25 (6.33m) – Candy Cane VII Invitational (12/4/15)
 
Weight Throw
1. Justin Herbert (WSU) – 60-04.50 (18.40m) – Wildcat Winer Open (12/4/15)
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16. Tyler Dent (PSU) – 42-02.75 (12.87m) – UW Indoor Preview (1/16/16)
 
Heptathlon
1. Aaron Pullin (EWU) – 4,989 points – Candy Cane VII Invitational (12/4/15)
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6. Kevin Robinson (PSU) – 4,369 points – Ed Jacoby Invitational (1/16/16)
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15. Joshua Robinson (MSU) – 3,446 points – MSU, UM Multis (1/4/16)