Women's Outdoor Track Season Thread

[goshox74]

The women got back into the winning of MVC titles this indoor season and now will look towards another one in the outdoor season ...

If the women win the outdoor MVC title it will be the 3rd triple crown in school history (MVC titles in CC, Indoor, and Outdoor).

Outdoor track adds the following events: 100m (replaces 60m), 3000m steeplechase (replaces 3000m), 10,000m, 400m hurdles, 4x100m relay (replaces DMR), Discus, Javelin, Hammer (replaces Weight Throw), Decathlon (replaces Heptathlon). The 1500m also replaces the mile which is virtually the same event.

The Shockers should be better in the 4x1 than the DMR as well as better in the throwing events, specifically Discus and Javelin but SIU will also be good in those events. The 10k will be another big event for the Shocks and after last week the Heptathlon looks good as well.

It will be another battle with SIU for the MVC title, the last 3 titles have been decided by 11 points or less between SIU and WSU. Indiana St has a good team on paper but probably can't challenge the top 2.

The multi eventers opened in Rice last weekend and the rest of the team will open at UT-Arlington Saturday. Lots of great meets on the schedule with the annual KT Woodman on April 9-10 in Cessna Stadium and the MVC in mid-May at Illinois State.

[goshox74]

Interesting opening weekend for the Shockers ....

MAJOR, MAJOR accomplishment out at Stanford as Tonya Nero smashes the WSU school record in the 10k with a 33:32. Old record was 35:16. For those of you that go and run 5k's on the weekend, that is TWO 16:46's back to back. That time will put her top-10 in the NCAA. Way to go Tonya!

Also at Stanford Leah Thompson ran 35:06, a time that would've broken the school record by 10 seconds, now she is over 90 seconds off the new record! Great run for Leah!

Down at UT-Arlington the Shocks had to deal with big-time wind. It was so windy that almost all of the pole vaulters no heighted. The sprints were also into several headwinds so I think the overall results were probably better than they apear on paper.

--Audacia Moore ran 11.85/24.69 the latter into a 3.2 headwind and the 4x1 ran 46.22, all good opening season marks.
--Irene Kosgei, fresh off not competing indoor ran 4:39 in the 1500, a good mark for her considering she is more of a 5k/10k runner.
--Olivia Martinez and Rachel York went 1-2 in the 5k, times weren't too impressive (18 min) but in the conditions probably pretty solid.
--La'Taish Brown LJ'ed right at 20 ft
--Two freshmen throwers had good debuts with Megan Fuller in the discus (147 ft) and Andrea Markel in the javelin (128 ft). Good to see the throwers having some early success.

The teams are at The Texas Relays and Emporia State Relays this week. Good luck Shockers!