Huskies Welcome Pac-12 Champ Transfer Lopes
September 23, 2019 | Track & Field
SEATTLE – A Pac-12 Champion in the high jump and one of the top heptathletes in the NCAA, Lyndsey Lopes is joining the Huskies for her final year of outdoor track while pursuing her Master's degree. Lopes gives Washington three women with heptathlon personal-bests of over 5,600 points.
A native of Clovis, Calif., Lopes comes to Washington from USC. She won the 2018 Pac-12 Championship in the high jump with a personal-best clearance of 5-10 1/2, while finishing fourth in the heptathlon that season with a PR of 5,719 points. She went on to qualify for the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships in both the high jump and the heptathlon.
Lopes also holds personal-bests on the track of 13.48 in the 100m hurdles, 24.08 for 200-meters, 55.86 for 400-meters, and 2:18.67 for 800-meters. Her long jump best is 19-9 3/4, and in the throws her PRs are 36-5 in the shot put and 126-9 in the javelin. She was third in the Pac-12 heptathlon in 2017 and fifth as a freshman in 2016. She also owns an indoor pentathlon PR of 3,978 that would rank first in UW history.
Lopes will be pursuing her Master's in Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership at Washington. She joins a women's multis group coached by Associate Head Coach Toby Stevenson that features defending Pac-12 heptathlon champion and school record-holder Hannah Rusnak (PR of 5,779 points) and World Junior Championships competitor Ida Eikeng (PR of 5,678 points).
A native of Clovis, Calif., Lopes comes to Washington from USC. She won the 2018 Pac-12 Championship in the high jump with a personal-best clearance of 5-10 1/2, while finishing fourth in the heptathlon that season with a PR of 5,719 points. She went on to qualify for the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships in both the high jump and the heptathlon.
Lopes also holds personal-bests on the track of 13.48 in the 100m hurdles, 24.08 for 200-meters, 55.86 for 400-meters, and 2:18.67 for 800-meters. Her long jump best is 19-9 3/4, and in the throws her PRs are 36-5 in the shot put and 126-9 in the javelin. She was third in the Pac-12 heptathlon in 2017 and fifth as a freshman in 2016. She also owns an indoor pentathlon PR of 3,978 that would rank first in UW history.
Lopes will be pursuing her Master's in Intercollegiate Athletics Leadership at Washington. She joins a women's multis group coached by Associate Head Coach Toby Stevenson that features defending Pac-12 heptathlon champion and school record-holder Hannah Rusnak (PR of 5,779 points) and World Junior Championships competitor Ida Eikeng (PR of 5,678 points).
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