Track and Field Travels to Sac State Mondo Challenge, Stanford Invitational

Friday, March 30

Stanford, CA

8:00 AM

UC Riverside

Stanford Invitational

Track and Field Travels to Sac State Mondo Challenge, Stanford Invitational

3/29/2018 6:14:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

Sacramento & Palo Alto, Calif. – The UC Riverside Track and Field teams head north this weekend for two meets. Three athletes will participate in the Stanford Invitational on Friday, while the majority of the team will see action at the Sacramento State Mondo Team Challenge on Saturday.

STANFORD INVITATIONAL

Schedule | Entries & Live Results

UC Riverside's all-time record holder in the 3000m Steeplechase, senior Weslie Pearce, will be the first to compete tomorrow at the Stanford Invitational. Pearce recorded her fastest time this year of 10:40.21 at the UCSB/Cal Poly Meet. That was just shy of her all-time program record of 10:24.24, which she set while winning the 2017 Big West Championships.

Following Pearce will be fellow senior Faith Makau in the 1500m. Makau owns the Highlanders' best time this season (4:34.94), which also came at the UCSB/Cal Poly Meet. Closing out the day will be junior Emily Sanchez in the 5000m.

SACRAMENTO STATE CHALLENGE
Meet Information | Performance List | Final Schedule

Women
Kenady Jackson, Camille Deadwiler, Destiny Mitchell and Sirai Thompson will represent UCR in the 4x100 Relay. With the exception of Thompson, this is the same Highlander team that just last week set the all-time program record in the 4x200 Relay (1:38.46).

Deadwiler will also be competing in the 100m Sprint. The senior also owns the all-time UCR record in this event, which she set in 2016 with a time of 11.80 seconds. Her fastest time so far this year was 11.93, set at last week's UCR Spring Classic Invitational.

Makau will return to action for the second straight day, taking on the field in the women's 800m. Makau holds the third-fastest mark of all-time (2:05.93), set when she was a freshman in 2015.

Tayler Fleming and Dilini Amarasekara will be competing in the women's Long Jump and 100m Hurdles. Fleming sits atop the UCR record book with a 2016 long jump score of 20-11.75. She also owns the team's top 100m Hurdle mark this season of 14.60 seconds.

In the women's 200m, Kenady Jackson will lead a group of six Highlanders. Jackson's fastest career time of 24.32 seconds in 2017 was the fourth-fastest in program history.

Freshman Hana Johnson is set to compete in the triple jump. Last week, she recorded the Highlanders' best mark of the year (39-05.75), which was good for the sixth-best in UCR history.

Men
The men's 4x100 will consist of Ondrej Rapp, Michael Kojin, Nathan Noble and Carlos Wedlow. Their best time this year of 41.92 seconds came last week, and was six-tenths of a second shy of cracking the program's top-10.

Seven Highlanders will see action in the men's 800m, led by sophomore Heinrich Van Niekerk, whose time of 1:53.22 at the UCR Spring Classic is the fastest this year. Van Niekerk will also

Michael Kojin, the all-time record holder in the men's 200m (21.28s), will be one of five Highlanders competing in the 200m. His best mark so far in 2018 was 21.80 seconds, set at the UCSB/Cal Poly Meet.

Senior Wesley Braddock and sophomore Lawrence O'Hara will both see action in the men's discus and shot put. Braddock and O'Hara finished first and second, respectively, at the UCSB/Cal Poly Meet. Braddock's shot put score of 57-07.00 in 2017 was the fourth-best mark in program history.