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Utah Track and Field Heads to Southern California
4/17/2018 6:30 PM | Track & Field
The Utes to compete at Mt. SAC Relays and Long Beach State Invite.
SALT LAKE CITY – The Utah track and field team travels back to California this Thursday through Saturday, Apr. 19-21, where the team will split up and compete at the Mt. SAC Relays and the Long Beach State Invite. The Mt. SAC Relays will take place at Murdock Stadium located on the Campus of El Camino college due to construction on Mt. SAC's track.
"These are two very traditional meets at this time of year," head coach Kyle Kepler said. "They are kind of back-to-back so we will have some options on how we want to compete kids and it will probably depend on how they run on Friday at Mt. SAC, as to whether some of them will compete and double back on Saturday at Long Beach."
Included among the competitors is senior All-American Grayson Murphy, who will be competing for the second time this season. In her first meet of the year at Stanford, Murphy competed in the 3,000-meter steeplechase race where she placed third with a time of 9:51.36, which currently ranks third nationally in the event. She will compete in either the 5,000 or 10,000 at Mt. SAC. Murphy holds the Utah school record in the 5,000 (15:58.29) and ranks fourth all-time in the 10,000 (34:06.69).
Junior Caitlin Faust ranks in the top 50 nationally and seventh in the Pac-12 in the 800 with a season-best time of 2:07.90. Sophomore Sarah Newton is 14th in the league in the event with a time of 2:09.43. Both rank in the top 10 all-time at Utah in the event.
In the sprints, Alissa Atisme's season-best 400 time of 55.49 ranks 12th in the Pac-12 and she also ranks in the top 20 in the league in the 100 (11.81). Jackie Martin has also been strong for the Utes in her freshman season with a top-20 time in the league in the 400 (56.57). Both Atisme and Martin, along with Raynee Helm Wheelock and Madison Lanford, were part of the 4x100 relay team that set a school record earlier this year.
Utah has several likely competitors in the 5,000, led by senior Louise Mercer, whose time of 17:00.37 is 10th in the Pac-12 this year. Sophomore Poppy Tank (17:04.81), senior Jessica Sams (17:12.74), freshman Aubrey Argyle (17:33.05) and freshman Trina Moreno (17:38.06) all have times that rank in the top 20 in the Pac-12 this season. Tank, Sams and senior Hannah McInturff all rank in the top 10 all-time at Utah in the event.
Freshman Rachel Whipple leads Utah in the 400 hurdles (1:03.09) and has a top-20 time in the Pac-12. Junior Eliza Hansen's season-best high jump mark of 5'5" is the 12th-best in the league this season.
"It's a big weekend ahead and we are hoping that the weather holds up," Kepler said. "The kids are excited to get out of here and see if we can get into another big meet situation, all the heats will be really good, each flight will be really close in terms of their lifetime best and we all will be trying to do the same thing and that's generate NCAA preliminary marks."
Click below to listen to Kepler in his weekly podcast give a recap of the Mark Faldmo Invitational as well as a preview of this week's meets at the Mt. SAC Relays and Long Beach State Invitational.
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