PORTLAND, Ore. — No track & field venue in the United State has more history to it than Hayward Field in Eugene. The venue has stood in some form since 1919, hosted 19 NCAA national championships, eight U.S. Olympic Trials, and in 2022, the first World Outdoor Championships on American soil.
 
It's an appropriate setting, then, for the Portland State track & field program to chase its own history this Friday and Saturday at the Oregon Preview.
 
Tori Forst has her own history with Hayward Field. The Tigard High School product competed at Hayward Field at the 2021, 2022 and 2023 OSAA 6A State meets. She placed fourth in the 100 meters at the 2022 state meet, setting her current personal best at 12.02 seconds.
 
Forst will compete in the 100 and 200 meters Saturday. She opened her season with a win in the 100 meters two weeks ago at the L&C Electric Forest Opener, finishing in 12.14 seconds. Forst hasn't run a 200-meter race outdoors yet, but set an overall best in the 200 meters with her finish in 24.74 seconds at the Big Sky Indoor Championships on Feb. 28.
 
Daniel Coppedge and Noah Meucci will chase their own history at Hayward Field when they open the weekend for the Vikings with the men's hammer at 12 p.m. Friday. The pair will be looking to challenge a 54-year-old school record in the event, which Steve James set at 176-00 (53.64m) in 1971.
 
Meucci moved up to second all-time with a personal-best throw of 168-02 (51.27m) at the Rich Allen Classic on March 8.
 
Coppedge has yet to compete outdoors but already set one school record during the indoor season. Coppedge broke a 22-year-old record in the weight throw with a mark of 56-00.00 (17.07m) at the Riverfront Invitational on Feb. 7.
 
Coppedge owns a personal best in the hammer of 193-02 (58.87m), which he set at the 2023 NWAC Championships when he was competing at Clackamas Community College. If he were to match that mark Friday, then that'd put him more than 17 feet clear of the current school record.
 
Alison Calvin-Stupfel already has some history to her name, having entered the all-time top 10 in the women's outdoor high jump last season. She moved into a tie for ninth all-time with a clearance at 5-05.00 (1.65m) at last year's Oregon Preview. She had a lighter indoor season, only competing twice so far in 2025, but will only need to clear another bar or two to move up her ranking in the high jump.
 
Other history could come from Ashley Peterson in the women's 400 meters (Saturday, 2:34 p.m.). Peterson won the event at the L&C Electric Forest Opener on March 8 where she finished in 57.58 seconds. She only needs to shave two-tenths of a second off that time to enter top 10 at Portland State, which would make her the first new entrant to the top 10 since Rachel Vinjamuri and Roazena Miller in 2016.
 
Amir Ahmed nearly entered the top 10 in the men's 800 meters at the L&C Electric Forest Opener. Ahmed finished in a personal-best 1:52.99, beating his closest competitor by more than a second. He now only needs to shave another .35 seconds to pass PSU Hall of Famer Dave Robbins for 10th all-time in the outdoor 800 meters.
 
Emma Stolte produced another win for the Vikings on the women's side of the middle distances last time out. Stolte won the women's 1,500 meters at the L&C Electric Forest Opener by close to nine seconds in a new personal-best time of 4:35.64.
 
Stolte will run the 1,500 meters again Friday at 5:33 p.m. alongside teammates Ania Kapustka and Taylor Nichols. She's also entered in the 800 meters Saturday at 5:04 p.m. alongside Viola Alessandrini, Ahmeah Brown, Kapustka and Irina López. Stolte entered the top 10 in the indoor 800 meters earlier this season, setting a personal best of 2:14.55 at UW Invitational on Feb. 1.
 
Stolte will need to lower that time to 2:12 to enter the top 10 outdoors. Only one Viking – Bára Stýblová, who moved up to fifth with a time of 2:10.58 in 2023 – has entered the top 10 since 2014. But Hayward Field has a way of pulling out the best in the athletes that compete there.
 
There's no better place to make history than in a venue that has a wealth of its own.
 
MEET INFO
March 21-22 – Oregon Preview – Eugene, Ore. (Hayward Field)
 
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MEET SCHEDULE
Friday, March 21
Time (PT) – Event (PSU Entries)
12 p.m. – Men's Hammer (Flight 1 of 1 – Coppedge, Meucci)
2:30 p.m. – Men's High Jump (Flight 1 of 1 – Mathers)
5:33 p.m. – Women's 1,500 Meters (Section 1 of 5 – Kapustka, Nichols; Section 2 of 5 – Stolte)
5:35 p.m. – Women's High Jump (Flight 1 of 1 – Calvin-Stupfel)
6 p.m. – Men's Javelin (Flight 1 of 1 – Glad)
6:08 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters (Section 1 of 5 – Muradas; Section 3 of 5 – Ibrahim, Moore)
6:20 p.m. – Men's Triple Jump (Flight 1 of 1 – Mathers)
 
Saturday, March 22
Time (PT) – Event (PSU Entries)
1:45 p.m. – Men's Long Jump (Flight 1 of 1 – Becker)
2:05 p.m. – Women's 100-Meter Hurdles (Section 2 of 2 – Olivier)
2:17 p.m. – Men's 110-Meter Hurdles (Section 2 of 2 – Johnson)
2:34 p.m. – Women's 400 Meters (Section 2 of 4 – Peterson; Section 4 of 4 – Coté)
2:54 p.m. – Men's 400 Meters (Section 3 of 4 – Olubisi; Section 4 of 4 – Brost)
3:14 p.m. – Women's 100 Meters (Section 1 of 4 – Forst; Section 2 of 4 – Wheat; Section 3 of 4 – Rosario)
3:34 p.m. – Men's 100 Meters (Section 3 of 4 – Hawkins; Section 4 of 4 – Latscha)
4 p.m. – Women's Shot Put (Flight 1 of 1 – Cunningham)
4:12 p.m. – Men's 400-Meter Hurdles (Section 2 of 2 – Johnson, Timmins)
4:24 p.m. – Women's 200 Meters (Section 1 of 4 – Forst; Section 2 of 4 – Wheat)
4:44 p.m. – Men's 200 Meters (Section 2 of 4 – Migani; Section 4 of 4 – Brost)
5:04 p.m. – Women's 800 Meters (Section 2 of 4 – Brown, López, Stolte; Section 4 of 4 – Alessandrini, Kapustka)
5:24 p.m. – Men's 800 Meters (Section 2 of 4 – Ahmed)
6 p.m. – Men's 4x400-Meter Relay (Section 2 of 2 – Portland State 'A' – Olubisi, Timmins, Ahmed, Brost)