Track & Field Set For Pac-12 Championships

Saturday, May 11

Tucson, AZ

6:00 PM

University of Utah

Pac-12 Championships

5/7/2019 4:04 PM | Track & Field

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Utes make their way down to Tucson for two-day championship event

UP NEXT
The Utah track & field team will head to Tucson, Ariz., this Saturday and Sunday, May 11-12, to compete in the 2019 Pac-12 Conference Outdoor Championships. The meet will take place at Drachman Stadium on the University of Arizona campus.

ON AIR
The Pac-12 Network will broadcast live starting at 8:30 p.m. MT on Saturday, May 11, while programming on Sunday, May 12, will begin at 7:30 p.m. MT. For more information and television schedule, click here.

UTAH NOTES
• The majority of Utah's squad took lat week off, with a handful of runners competing in a pair of "last chance" meets, while senior Kolbi Sims got things going for the Utes at the Pac-12 Conference Multi-Event Championships.
• At the Weber State Twilight this past Wednesday, Kayla Rees set a new season-best time of 1:02.27 in the 400-meter hurdles, while Ruby Jane Mathewson notched a new personal-best in the event with a time of 1:02.74.
• Last Friday at the Portland Twilight, Jackie Martin took home the title in the 200-meter dash, while notching a new personal-best time of 24.71 ... Maya LeBar finished behind her in second-place with a new personal-best time of 24.74 ... Skyler Blair competed in the 400-meter event for the first time in her collegiate career, taking second overall with a time of 55.27 ... Sarah Newton notched a new PR in the 800-meters with a time of 2:05.88, as did Brooklyn James with a new personal-best time of 2:08.57 ... Cara Woolnough posted a new PR in the 1500-meters with a time of 4:24.89, while Scarlet Dale PR'd with a time of 4:25.31.
• Sims took fifth-place overall out of the 14 competitors in the women's heptathlon event this past weekend ... Sims set new PR's in the 200-meters (24.60), 800-meters (2:16.77) and the javelin throw (39.40m), while going on to score a new personal-best total of 5,477 points in the heptathlon ... the 5,477 points also sets a new school record at Utah, surpassing Amanda Feight's former No. 1 total of 5,328 points that was set back on May 10, 2007.

TRACK CHAT
Check out this week's edition of the Utah Track Chat Podcast with head coach Kyle Kepler. You can follow the podcast here or by clicking the embedded link below.

PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP HISTORY NOTES
• Utah earned a 12th-place finish, registering a total of 15 points in the 2018 Pac-12 Championships.
• Caitlin Faust (6th) and Sarah Newton (7th) notched points for the Utes in the 800-meters, while Grayson Murphy (2nd) hauled in Utah's largest point-total in the 3000-meter steeplechase event.
• Utah also earned points finishing seventh in the 4x400-meter relay.
• Utah's highest finish in the Pac-12 Championships came back in 2012 when the Utes scored 21 points to take 10th-place overall, and also in 2015, when Utah scored 14 points for a 10th-place finish.
• Utah's highest point total in the Pac-12 Championships was a 23-point effort back in 2014. The Utes would go onto finish 11th-place that season.

USTFCCCA #EVENTSQUAD RANKINGS
The newest USTFCCCA event rankings were released this week with Utah posting top-50 marks in the 800m, 5000m, 1500m, 400m hurdles and 400m. Utah also ranks among the nation's top 75 in the 100m.

No. 5 - 800m (8:30.16, Total; 2:07.54, Average)
No. 6 - 5000m (1:05.00, Total; 16:15.02, Average)
No. 11 - 1500m (17:27.16, Total; 4:21.79, Average)
No. 14 - 400m Hurdles (4:07.83, Total; 1:01.96, Average)
No. 48 - 400m (3:43.21, Total; 55.80, Average)

UTAH IN TOP-50 NCAA RANKINGS (WEST REGION)
No. 4 - Sarah Feeny, 1500-meters (4:13.53, school record)
No. 11 - Sarah Feeny, 5000-meters (15:41.81, school record)
No. 29 - Poppy Tank, 5000-meters (16:07.55, No. 4 in school history)
No. 20 - Sarah Newton, 800-meters (2:05.88, No. 5 in school history)
No. 35 - Brooke Manson, 800-meters (2:06.77, No. 8 in school history)
No. 37 - Skyler Blair, 400-meter hurdles (59.72, No. 5 in school history)
No. 47 - Kolbi Sims, High Jump (1.73m, No. 8 in school history)