| Title |
Mountain West Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships; May 14-16,2009 |
| Subject |
Track & Field ; College sports; Athletics: Mountain West Conference |
| Description |
Track & Field meet statistics |
| Additional Information |
Head Coach: Kyle Kepler |
| Creator |
University of Utah, Athletics Department |
| Publisher |
Digitized by: Athletics Department, University of Utah |
| Date |
2009-05-13 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Identifier |
2009.05.13_MWC-Outdoor-TF-Championships |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
Digital Image Copyright 2012, University of Utah. All rights reserved |
| Sport |
Track & Field |
| Opponent |
Participants included Brigham Young University, Colorado State University, University of New Mexico, U.S. Air Force Academy, San Diego State University, Texas Christian University, University of Wyoming |
| Spatial Coverage |
Louis S. Madrid Tack Complex, Laramie, Wyoming |
| Seasons |
2009 |
| Final Score |
The Utes earned a total of 76 points to finish fifth in the league, improving from last year's sixth-place finish (58 points). On the last day of the competition, Utah saw two event champions and four top-five finishes. Freshman Langley Iverson came through for the Utes in the high jump, clearing 5' 8.75" for first place a new personal record and a new regional qualifying mark. Senior Mandi Witherspoon cleared 5' 5.00" for eighth-place. Chelsea Shapard had another great day on the track in the 400-meter hurdles event, finishing in first-place and improving her personal record and regional qualifying time to 57.88. This is her third straight conference championship title in the event. Chelsey Kaplar came in seventh-place in the event with a time of 1:02.23. Shapard and Kaplar joined with Whitney Wellington and Ashley Patterson in the 4x400-meter relay to break another school record and finish with a regional qualifying time. The Ute relay team placed third overall with a time of 3:38.96. Each member of the relay team had outstanding splits: Shapard (53.8), Kaplar (55.0), Wellington (55.1), and Patterson (53.7). The previous best time in Utah school history was 3:41.60, which was set on May 5, 2009 at the Utah Twilight by Shapard, Wellington, Patterson, and Kaplar. The 4x100-meter relay team comprised of Haley McAllister-Birkeland, Wellington, Shapard, and Patterson finished in fifth-place overall with a time of 46.39. Chelsea DiGrazia, Janett Ern and Lauren Endersen competed in the distance events for the Utes on Saturday. DiGrazia competed in the 1500-meter run for a sixth-place finish after crossing the line in 4:39.53. Ern improved her personal record by four seconds in the 1500-meter run with a time of 4:46.86. Endersen ran the 5000-meter event with a time of 18:26.38 to earn seventh-place overall. In the javelin, sophomore Breanna Freestone threw for a personal record of 135' 10" to earn seventh-place in the conference championships. Her mark is a 14 ft. improvement from her previous personal best. |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6q85n10 |
| Setname |
uu_ath_2 |
| ID |
1371560 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6q85n10 |
