PORTLAND, Ore. — Corvallis served as the backdrop for one of the Portland State track & field program's first meets of the 2026 outdoor season. It's only fitting, then, that the Vikings wrap up their regular season back at Oregon State's Whyte Track & Field Center for the OSU High Performance Meet this Friday and Saturday.
 
The Vikings first competed at OSU for the PNW Invite on March 20-21. It was at that meet that two basic themes emerged early … Emma Stolte and Jack Macdonald are both fast in their respective events.
 
Stolte broke a 12-year-old school record in the 1,500 meters at the PNW Invite, finishing in 4:21.80. She lowered that record to 4:20.17 at the Bryan Clay Invitational two weekends ago – a mark that ranks her fifth in the Big Sky and 65th in the NCAA west region this season.
 
She'll go for another re-set of the record Friday night in the invitational section of the 1,500 meters. That could serve as the preface for another record attempt Saturday, when Stolte will race in the first of two invitational sections in the 800 meters.
 
Stolte hasn't run an 800-meter race since the PNW Invite where she finished in 2:10.64 to move up to seventh all-time. She set the indoor record in the 800 with a finish in 2:08.51 back in January at the Inland Northwest Invitational. That's below the current outdoor record of 2:09.01 that Melissa Owens set in 2007.
 
Macdonald, meanwhile, broke or tied freshman records in the 100 and 200 meters at the PNW Invite back in March. He re-set both records two weekends ago, finishing in 10.62 and 21.17 seconds at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate and Bryan Clay Invitational, respectively. His 200-meter time of 21.17 seconds represented the fastest time by a Viking since 1999 when Ryon Edwards set the current overall school record at 21.00 seconds.
 
Macdonald will run the 200 meters Friday before coming back for the 100 meters Saturday.
 
Stolte and Macdonald figure to be on record watch this weekend, then. But the Vikings will also be looking to use the OSU High Performance Meet as a final tuneup for the Big Sky Outdoor Championships in two weeks' time. The Big Sky meet is a rare home conference meet for the Vikings – the first since 2013 – so the program will be eager to impress their peers.
 
To that end, a number of Vikings besides Stolte and Macdonald have shown recent improvements.
 
Savannah Beasley became the first Viking since Katie Baxter in 2018 to enter the all-time top 10 in the 400 hurdles. She did so while shaving two seconds off her personal best with a finish in 1:02.44 at the Leopard Invitational on April 17. She'll run the 400 hurdles again Friday alongside teammate Ashley Peterson, who she has been trading off the team lead in the event this season.
 
Irina López also entered the top 10 in the 800 meters at the Bryan Clay Invitational, finishing in 2:11.57. She'll return to the 800 Saturday, running in the second section of the invitational opposite Stolte.
 
Princess Fletcher moved up two spots in the all-time top 10 for the women's hammer her last time out. She threw 145-09 (44.43m) at the Leopard Invitational on April 16, setting a new personal best for the third time out of four meets this season. Fletcher and Avonlea Edwards – who ranks above Fletcher at fifth all-time in the hammer – will open the OSU High Performance Meet Friday at 10 a.m.
 
Those two can set the tone for the Vikings, then. A strong start Friday will help the Vikings close the regular season with a solid finish.
 
MEET INFO
May 1-2 – OSU High Performance Meet – Corvallis, Ore. (Whyte Track & Field Center)
 
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TENTATIVE MEET SCHEDULE
Friday, May 1
Time (PT) – Events (PSU Entries)
10 a.m. – Women's Hammer (Flight 2 of 2 – Edwards, Fletcher)
11:30 a.m. – Women's Long Jump (Flight 1 of 2 – Latu-Alves; Flight 2 of 2 – Rideout)
~12 p.m. – Women's Discus (Flight 1 of 2 – Edwards, Sayler; Flight 2 of 2 – Fletcher)
2:30 p.m. – Women's 400-Meters Hurdles (Beasley, Peterson – Sections TBD)
2:45 p.m. – Men's Long Jump (Flight 1 of 2 – Mathers)
2:50 p.m. – Men's 400-Meter Hurdles (Timmins – Sections TBD)
3:05 p.m. – Women's 200 Meters (Abdel Halim, Jolivette, Latu-Alves, Medina, Rideout, Rosario – Sections TBD)
3:30 p.m. – Men's 200 Meters (Bakkum, Brost, Cadengo, Jones, Macdonald, Stolp – Sections TBD)
4:15 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 1 (Brown, Chen)
4:22 p.m. – Women's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 1 (Wapsheli)
4:28 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 2 (Muradas)
4:34 p.m. – Women's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 2 (Schmitke, Zarrin)
4:40 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 3 (Arthur, Estrada)
4:52 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 4 (Ibrahim)
5:04 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 5 (Smith)
5:10 p.m. – Women's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 5 (Nichols)
5:16 p.m. – Men's 1,500 Meters – Open Section 6 (Abade)
5:55 p.m. – Men's 5,000 Meters – Open Section 1 (Sandoval, Sarver Huber)
6:45 p.m. – Men's 3k Steeplechase – Open (Thake)
7:40 p.m. – Women's 1,500 Meters – Invitational (Section 1 of 1 – Stolte)
7:50 p.m. – Men's 5,000 Meters – Invitational (Section 1 of 1 – Gillingham)
8:10 p.m. – Women's 5,000 Meters – Invitational (Section 1 of 1 – Nichols)
 
Saturday, May 2
Time (PT) – Events (PSU Entries)
12 p.m. – Women's High Jump (Flight 1 of 1 – Rideout)
12 p.m. – Women's Shot Put (Flight 2 of 2 – Fisher, Sayler)
~1 p.m. – Men's Javelin (Flight 1 of 2 – Glad, Green)
~2 p.m. – Men's Triple Jump (Flight 1 of 2 – Mathers, Parrow)
2 p.m. – Women's 4x100-Meter Relay (Portland State 'A' – Rosario, Abdel Halim, Medina, Beasley)
2:15 p.m. – Men's 800 Meters – Invitational (Section 2 of 2 – Ahmed)
2:25 p.m. – Women's 800 Meters – Invitational (Section 1 of 2 – Stolte; Section 2 of 2 - López)
2:35 p.m. – Men's 800 Meters (Abade, Arthur, Brown, Chen, Estrada, Gillingham, Muradas, Parks, Sandoval, Smith, Thake Walsh – Sections TBD)
3:05 p.m. – Women's 800 Meters (Amarillas, Butterfield, Nichols, Schmitke, Zarrin – Sections TBD)
3:40 p.m. – Women's 100-Meter Hurdles (Beasley, Rideout – Heats TBD)
3:50 p.m. – Men's 110-Meter Hurdles (Schall, Sweeney – Heats TBD)
4 p.m. – Women's 400 Meters (Abdel Halim, Medina – Sections TBD)
4:15 p.m. – Men's 400 Meters (Cadengo, Jones – Sections TBD)
4:35 p.m. – Women's 100 Meters (Beasley, Jolivette, Latu-Alves, Peterson, Rosario – Heats TBD)
5 p.m. – Men's 100 Meters (Bakkum, Brost, Macdonald, Stolp, Sweeney – Heats TBD)