PORTLAND, Ore. — This past January, former Portland State track & field athlete Genna Settle was inducted into the Portland State Athletics Hall of Fame. Her credentials? Five Big Sky Conference individual titles.
 
Four of Settle's five titles came during her senior season in 2017, when she swept the Big Sky indoor 60, indoor 200, outdoor 100 and outdoor 200 titles. The last two of those four titles came at the 2017 Big Sky Outdoor Championships, which took place at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento.
 
This year's meet location? Hornets Stadium in Sacramento. So, it's a site of former glory for the Vikings that the Portland State track & field program will return to this Friday and Saturday at this year's Big Sky Outdoor Championships.
 
The Vikings will have representation again in the short sprints this year. Dieumerci Migani and Dillon Brost will both run in the men's 100 meters, while Brost will also compete in the 200 meters. Sienna Rosario will represent the Viking women in the 100 meters, while she'll join Ashley Peterson in the 200 meters.
 
Migani made some waves in the prelims of the men's 100 meters at last year's Big Sky Outdoor Championships. Despite running on the inside lane, Migani broke the first of two school records he'd set that weekend while finishing in 10.51 seconds. He approached that time again earlier this season, finishing in 10.59 seconds at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational on April 5. That goes down as Migani's best time at sea level, as last year's school record came at around 5,000 feet of elevation in Bozeman, Mont.
 
Migani will also be coming off his best time ever in the 200 meters last week at the Pac-12 Open. The junior shaved nearly a second off his previous best in the event while vaulting up to fourth all-time at Portland State with his finish in 21.46 seconds.
 
Brost also set a seasonal best last week, finishing in 22.24 seconds to move up to sixth in the freshman rankings.
 
Rosario ranks in the freshman top 10s for both the 100 and 200 on the women's side. She set her best times of the season in both events at the OSU High Performance Meet two weekends ago. Rosario finished the 100 meters in 12.46 seconds to rank eighth in the freshman record book. Her 200-meter finish in 25.24 seconds represented an overall best for her in the event while ranking her seventh in the freshman top 10.
 
Migani will also feature for the Vikings in the men's long jump and triple jump. Last year, He scored in all three events – the 100 meters, long jump and triple jump – while following up his school record in the 100 meters with another in the triple jump. He became the first Viking to ever crack 50 feet in the triple jump with a mark of 50-00.75 (15.26m) last year.
 
He's only competed in one triple jump so far this season, jumping 46-03.25 (14.10m) at the OSU High Performance Meet. His better event at the OSU meet came in the long jump where he won the event on his last attempt, jumping 24-04.50 (7.43m). That moved him up to fourth all-time in the event at Portland State.
 
The better triple jumper going into the Big Sky meet this season has been Edward Niyongere, who will join Migani in the long jump and triple jump this weekend. Niyongere had his own clutch, last-attempt mark at the OSU High Performance Meet, going from eighth to second in the triple jump standings with a jump of 48-00.75 (14.65m). That marked a new overall best for Niyongere in the event while also moving him up to fifth all-time at Portland State.
 
Those two – Migani in the long jump, Niyongere in the triple jump – represent the Vikings' highest ranked athletes within the Big Sky going into the conference meet. Migani ranks second in the long jump with his mark from the OSU meet, less than three inches behind Montana State's Destiny Nkeonye, who jumped 24-07.25 (7.50m) at the UNLV Rebel Elite on April 4.
 
Niyongere, meanwhile, heads into the weekend ranked fourth in the men's triple jump behind Kellan Quinley of Sacramento State, Shawn Twumasi-Ampofo of Idaho and Kaliff Guevara of Northern Colorado. Quinley has a sizable lead among those four, having jumped 50-04.75 (15.36m) at the Hornet Invitational, 17 inches past Twumasi-Ampofo at No. 2. Migani ranks ninth in the men's triple jump with his mark from the OSU High Performance Meet.
 
Daniel Coppedge represents the highest ranked Viking outside of Migani and Niyongere, as he heads into the conference meet ranked seventh in the men's hammer. Coppedge set his mark at the Oregon Preview on March 21, breaking a 54-year-old school record with his throw of 186-10 (56.96m). He's surpassed 180 feet three other times since then, including at last week's Pac-12 Open, but has yet to pass his mark from the Oregon Preview.
 
Elsewhere, Deghlan Johnson ranks 12th in the men's 400-meter hurdles, having finished in 55.15 seconds at the Oregon Preview on March 22. That ranks Johnson ninth all-time in the event at Portland State.
 
Ania Kapustka and Amir Ahmed both rank 13th in their respective primary events between the women's 3k steeplechase and men's 800 meters. Kapustka lowered her best in the steeplechase by 18 seconds while finishing in 10:49.74 at the OSU High Performance Meet. That was only Kapustka's second attempt in the event after making her debut at the John Knight Twilight on April 11.
 
Ahmed has been a savvy racer within the 800 meters this season, posting two overall wins between the L&C Electric Forest Opener on March 8 and L&C Larry Byerly Invitational on April 19. He set his overall best in the 800 at 1:52.15 at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational on April 5, ranking him ninth all-time in the event at Portland State.
 
Emma Stolte has proved herself as another savvy racer for the Vikings. She has five heat wins to her name this outdoor season, including sweeps of her 800- 1,500-meter heats at both the Oregon Preview and OSU High Performance Meet.
 
Stolte will run the 1,500 and 5,000 meters at the Big Sky meet this weekend. She's already advanced to the final of the 1,500 meters with only 14 athletes entered in the race.
 
Expect her to beat her place on the form chart (24th), as will several other Vikings as they chase podiums this weekend.
 
They only have to look back at one of Portland State's newest Hall of Famers (Settle) to see what can be done at Hornet Stadium.
 
MEET INFO
May 16-17 – Big Sky Outdoor Championships – Sacramento, Calif. (Hornet Stadium)
 
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MEET SCHEDULE
Friday, May 16 – All field events are finals; Track events designed prelims/final
Time (PT) – Event (PSU Entries)
12 p.m. – Men's Javelin (Flight 1 of 1 – Glad, Wurz)
12 p.m. – Men's High Jump (Flight 1 of 1 – Mathers)
2 p.m. – Women's 3k Steeplechase – Final (Heat 1 of 1 – Kapustka)
2:30 p.m. – Women's Javelin (Flight 1 of 1 – Garcia)
2:55 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters – Prelims (Heat 2 of 2 – Moore)
3 p.m. – Men's Discus (Flight 1 of 2 – Coppedge, Meucci, Wurz)
3:40 p.m. – Men's 110-Meter Hurdles – Prelims (Heat 1 of 2 – Johnson, Timmins)
3:55 p.m. – Women's 400 Meters – Prelims (Heat 1 of 2 – Peterson)
4:30 p.m. – Women's 100 Meters – Prelims (Heat 1 of 3 – Rosario)
4:45 p.m. – Men's 100 Meters – Prelims (Heat 1 of 4 – Migani; Heat 2 of 4 – Brost)
5 p.m. – Women's 800 Meters – Prelims (Heat 2 of 3 – López)
5:20 p.m. – Men's 800 Meters – Prelims (Heat 1 of 4 – Ahmed)
5:30 p.m. – Women's Discus (Flight 1 of 2 – Cunningham)
6 p.m. – Men's Long Jump (Flight 1 of 2 – Becker, Niyongere; Flight 2 of 2 – Migani)
6:10 p.m. – Men's 400-Meter Hurdles – Prelims (Heat 1 of 2 – Timmins; Heat 2 of 2 – Johnson)
6:25 p.m. – Women's 200 Meters – Prelims (Heat 1 of 3 – Rosario; Heat 2 of 3 – Peterson)
6:35 p.m. – Men's 200 Meters – Prelims (Heat 2 of 4 – Brost)
7:35 p.m. – Men's 10,000 Meters – Final (Heat 1 of 1 – Ibrahim)
 
Saturday, May 17 – All events are finals
Time (PT) – Event (PSU Entries)
10 a.m. – Men's Hammer (Flight 1 of 2 – Meucci; Flight 2 of 2 – Coppedge)
11 a.m. – Women's Shot Put (Flight 1 of 2 – Cunningham)
12:20 p.m. – Women's 1,500 Meters (Heat 1 of 1 – Stolte)
1:35 p.m. – Men's 100 Meters (Migani)
2 p.m. – Men's Triple Jump (Flight 1 of 2 – Mathers; Flight 2 of 2 – Migani, Niyongere)
2:50 p.m. – Women's 5,000 Meters (Heat 1 of 1 – Stolte)
3:15 p.m. – Men's 5,000 Meters (Heat 1 of 1 – Ibrahim, Moore)
3:45 p.m. – Women's 4x400-Meter Relay (Heat 1 of 2 – Portland State 'A' – Rosario, Peterson, Kapustka, López)