University of Washington
Baldy Castillo Invitational
Huskies Win Women's Team Title At Outdoor Opener
March 22, 2015 | Track & Field
TEMPE, Ariz. – The Husky track team took to the sunny skies and warm temperatures of Tempe just fine in its outdoor season opener today with a number of great performances at the Baldy Castillo Invitational, hosted by Arizona State at Sun Angel Stadium. The women's team had an especially well-rounded showing, as the Huskies captured the women's team title with 110 points, beating out perennial NCAA power Texas A&M for the win.
The scored meet featured the Huskies, Aggies, and Sun Devils along with Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Iowa State, Illinois and several smaller schools. Washington won the women's team title with 110 points, with Texas A&M second with 99 and Oklahoma third with 98. Texas A&M rolled to the men's team title with 187 points, with UW fifth with 59.
Event winners for the women included Kimberly Stueckle in the 100m hurdles, Kristina Owsinski in the pole vault, and Kennadi Bouyer in the long jump. Gianna Woodruff, Haley Jacobson, the 4x100m relay, and Alanna Coker all had second-place finishes for the women as well.
Stueckle, coming off an indoor season where she lowered her 60m hurdles PR by .27 seconds, set another big career-best in her first 100-meter hurdles, cutting more than three-tenths off her old PR with a time of 13.55 which was good for the victory today. Stueckle's time ties her with Claudine Robinson for third in school history. That time would have been an NCAA West Prelim qualifier last year. Stueckle's best entering the day was 13.87.
Kennadi Bouyer enjoyed a great first outdoor meet as a Dawg, as she won the long jump and was part of the second-place 4x100m relay. On the relay, running with Haley Jacobson, Gianna Woodruff, and Sierra Peterson, Bouyer and the Dawgs ran 45.22 seconds, the third-fastest relay in school history and the best since 1985. Bouyer then moved on to the long jump and won with a best of 19-5 ½, also getting a mark of 19-4.
Woodruff opened with a 58.62 in the 400m hurdles, by far the best outdoor opener of her career. The 11th-place finisher in the event at last year's NCAA meet, Woodruff was second overall by a hair to Iowa's Montayla Holder who ran 58.59. Junior Krista Armstead was fourth overall in the hurdles at 1:00.98, a new career-best by four tenths.
Along with the relay, Jacobson's day included two PRs in both the 100-meters and 200-meters and new top-10 times in each. She took second overall in the 100-meters in 11.77 seconds, fifth on the top-10 list, and then came back to run 24.29 in the 200m, good for sixth-place and eighth on the top-10 list.
Owsinski carried her momentum from the end of the indoor season into her first outdoor meet today. The junior won the women's pole vault with a clearance of 14-1 ¼, her second time over the 14-foot mark in her past three meets. Owsinski's career-best indoors or out was 13-6 ¼ just a month ago, but she then went 14-2 to win the MPSF Championships and 13-9 ¼ at NCAA Indoors to finish ninth and earn All-America Second Team. Today she hit 14-feet for the first time outdoors, and moved to No. 3 on the UW outdoor top-10 list, in the process beating out the third- and fourth-place finishers from NCAA Indoors: Stephanie Reichartz of Illinois who was second today, and her own teammate, Diamara Planell Cruz, who cleared 13-5 ¼ for fourth. Sophomore Elizabeth Quick also made 13-5 ¼ for third-place.
The one event win for the Husky men's squad came from a likely source, Jax Thoirs, who just a week after his fourth-place finish at NCAA Indoors went 17-4 ½ to win the pole vault. Junior Chris Williams had a great day in the vault as well, clearing that same 17-4 ½ bar, but on one more attempt, to finish second overall. That mark is a new outdoor best for Williams in the vault.
The javelin throwers let loose today for the first time, with junior Curtis Clauson leading the way for the men with a best toss of 217-feet, 2-inches. Junior Carson Fuller threw 208-2 and freshman Denham Patricelli had a nice debut with a mark of 203-7. On the women's side, sophomore Ashley Alexander had a solid opener with a throw of 143-0 on her first toss of the season.
Frank Catelli had a nice opener in the men's shot put, tossing 58-0 ¼ to take sixth overall and fourth among collegiates. Freshman Jack Lembcke threw 52-6 in his outdoor opener and sophomore Dan Boyden went 52-3 ¼, more than four feet better than his 2014 best. In the discus competition, Lembcke went 162-1 and Catelli threw a best of 160-4. Boyden also tossed 148-10.
The women's throwers were led by a strong opener from redshirt freshman Gina Flint who went 48-10 ¾ in the shot put to place fourth. That puts her to No. 8 on the Husky outdoor top-10. Flint also threw 148-8 in the discus, and freshman Lyndsay Leatherman threw 139-3.
In the jumps, Casey Burns finished third in the men's triple jump with a leap of 48-7 ½. In the women's triple, Alanna Coker went 39-10 ½ on her first attempt to take second overall. Chase Walker cleared 6-8 in the men's high jump.
Other impressive times in the sprints included a PR in the 200-meters from Quadelle Satterwhite, who was sixth in the 200-meters in 21.39. Lucas Strong ran 10.81 seconds for a 100-meters PR. Freshman Carolyn Birkenfeld was third in the 400-meters in 56.42, and Sierra Peterson had times of 11.94 in the 100m and 24.59 in the 200m.
The women's 4x400m relay closed out the day with a third-place finish in a time of 3:42.37, another new top-10 mark, ranking ninth. That team was comprised of Armstead, Alexis Ford, Rose Christen, and Birkenfeld.
Howard Lao was just off his PR in the 110m hurdles, going 14.68 seconds for fifth place. Williams and Eric Simpson each ran 14.75. Andrew Prentice led several Huskies in the men's 800-meters with a time of 1:51.84, and Joelle Amaral ran 2:13.70 in the women's 800m.
A couple events were held on Friday, including the men's and women's hammer throws. For the men, redshirt freshman Carey Campbell threw 169-3, a PR by nearly nine feet. For the women, Carolyn Gravelle was just off her career-best by less than a foot, going 159-3, and freshman Onyie Chibuogwu tossed 156-3 in her first try in the event, which puts her at No. 9 on the Husky top-10 list.
The 1,500-meters were also run on Friday evening, with Johnathan Stevens and Katie Knight each placing third overall. For Stevens it was the first 1,500m of the redshirt freshman's career, and he posted a great time of 3:44.87. That would have easily qualified for West Prelims a year ago. Knight, in her first race since running the 5,000m at NCAA Prelims last spring, turned in a strong finish of 4:26.21, second among collegiate runners.
Also running the 1,500m was Keith Williams, seventh overall in 3:46.69, a huge PR by over seven seconds. Tyler King also posted a 3:49.74, just a second off his best, and Andrew Gardner went 3:56.07. On the women's side, redshirt freshman Kelly Lawson crossed in 4:35.17.
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