Track Ready to Battle at WAC Indoor

Friday, February 24

Spokane, Wash.

All Day

Abilene Christian

WAC Indoor Championships

2/22/2023 10:13:00 PM | Track & Field

By: Ray Fink

ABILENE – Abilene Christian sends 44 athletes to Washington this weekend for the WAC Indoor Track and Field Championships.

Twenty-two women and 22 men from ACU are scattered across all 32 events of the two-day championship.

The Wildcats are predicted to place fifth in the men's meet and seventh in the women's with Grand Canyon picked to win the men's team title and New Mexico State selected by WAC coaches as the favorite in the women's events.

"I am really looking forward to the WAC indoor championships," said ACU Head Coach Jerrod Cook. "I want to see our teams rise to the occasion, compete, and perform to their potential. We have a lot of athletes that are going in ranked just outside of the top eight. The mindset is to fight for every centimeter, every 10th of a second. It doesn't matter where you are ranked going in. The outcome is determined by what we do there."

ACU athletes are expected to compete for several event championships, including a few with the best marks heading into the competition.

Ella Anttila carries in the best mark in the women's triple jump at 12.75 meters with Irene Rono owning the No. 5 mark in the 5000 meters at 16:43.84.

Jack Marshall has the fastest time coming into the 200 meters with a school record of 20.91 seconds. Jamal January brings the second-best mark, 7.92 seconds, into the 60-meter high hurdles.

Tyler Richardson owns the top mark coming into the shot put at 18.12 meters while Athan Huelskamp ranks second in the weight throw at 18.48 and third in the shot at 16.74.

ESPN+ coverage of event finals are televised here on Friday and here on Saturday. Live timing is available here.

ACU Schedule (Pacific Time)
Friday
9 a.m. – Women's Pent 60M Hurdles (Jessica Campbell, Skylar Harris, Natalie Poe)
9:15 a.m. – Men's Hep 60M (Ethan Christian)
9:45 a.m. – Women's Pent High Jump (Campbell, Harris, Poe)
9:50 a.m. – Men's Hep Long Jump (Christian)
11 a.m. – Women's Pole Vault FINAL (Mackenzie Blain, Payton Kirk)
11:15 a.m. - Women's Pent Shot Put (Campbell, Harris, Poe)
Noon – Men's Hep Shot Put (Christian)
12:30 p.m. - Women's Pent Long Jump (Campbell, Harris, Poe)
1:30 p.m. – Men's Hep High Jump (Christian)
1:30 p.m. – Women's Shot Put FINAL (Zoe Burleson)
2:30 p.m. - Women's Pent 800M (Campbell, Harris, Poe)
2:30 p.m. – Women's Long Jump FINAL (Kirk, Ja'Dasia Sims)
2:30 p.m. – Men's Pole Vault FINAL (Jacob Thomas)
3 p.m. – Women's Mile FINAL (Bella Evans)
3:15 p.m. – Men's Mile FINAL (Neal Helgerson, Maxwel Kiplagat)
3:30 p.m. – Men's Shot Put FINAL (Colt Cooper, Athan Huelskamp, Tyler Richardson)
3:35 p.m. – Women's 60M Hurdles Prelim (Paige Boucher, Kirk)
3:45 p.m. – Men's 60M Hurdles Prelim (Jamal January, Jeremy King)
4 p.m. – Women's 60M Prelim (Hannah Foster, Ja'Kaylon Sabbath, D'anna Smith, Savannah Walker)
4:10 p.m. – Men's 60M Prelim (Addison Franklin, William Harris, Jack Marshall, Tiras Reed)
4:30 p.m. – Men's Long Jump FINAL (Harris, January, Donovan Ramirez)
4:35 p.m. – Women's 400M Prelim (Sims)
4:50 p.m. – Men's 400M Prelim (Tyce Chaney, Matthew Mills)
5 p.m. – Women's 800M Prelim (Riley Pyeatt)
5:10 p.m. – Men's 800M Prelim (Cooper Goggans)
5:20 p.m. – Women's 200M Prelim (Foster, Sabbath, Walker)
5:40 p.m. – Men's 200M Prelim (Chaney, Franklin, Marshall, Mills, Reed)
6 p.m. – Women's 5000M FINAL (Tessa Holderman, Prudence Kiyeng, Irene Rono)
6:20 p.m. – Men's 5000M FINAL (Kevin Castruita, Levi Chambers)
6:40 p.m. – Women's DMR FINAL (Evans, Grace White, Courtney Latham, Sabbath, Foster)
6:55 p.m. – Men's DMR FINAL (Keaton Raney, Chaney, Goggans, Helgerson, Garrison Shindler, Gabe Embree Kiplagat, Reed)

Saturday
9 a.m. – Men's Hep 60M Hurdles (Christian)
9:50 a.m. – Men's Hep Pole Vault (Christian)
10 a.m. – Women's High Jump FINAL (Sims)
Noon – Women's Triple Jump (Ella Anttila, Luize Velmere)
Noon – Women's Weight Throw (Burleson, Kailey Roskop)
12:15 p.m. – Men's Hep 1000M (Christian)
2:30 p.m. – Men's Triple Jump FINAL (Harris, Ramirez)
2:30 p.m. – Men's Weight Throw FINAL (Huelskamp, Richardson)
2:55 p.m. – Women's 60M Hurdle FINAL
3:05 p.m. – Men's 60M Hurdles FINAL
3:15 p.m. – Women's 60M FINAL
3:25 p.m. – Men's 60M FINAL
3:40 p.m. – Women's 400M FINAL
3:50 p.m. – Men's 400M FINAL
4:10 p.m. – Men's 800M FINAL
4:20 p.m. – Women's 200M FINAL
4:30 p.m. – Men's 200M FINAL
4:40 p.m. – Women's 3000M FINAL (Evans, Holderman, Kiyeng, Rono, White)
5:10 p.m. – Men's 3000M FINAL (Castruita, Chambers, Embree, Helgerson)
5:40 p.m. – Womens 1600M Relay FINAL (Walker, Sims, Sabbath, Latham, Pyeatt, Foster)
5:45 p.m. – Men's 1600M Relay FINAL (Marshall, Chaney, Mills, Reed, Franklin, January)