Cougar Track Team All Over Leaderboard At PLNU Invitational Track Meet
March 24, 2007

Complete Results

On Saturday, The Cougar track team continued its excellent season by finishing up the three-day PLNU Invitational. CSUSM athletes placed high on the leaderboard in nearly every event on Saturday, and a few more qualified for Nationals.

First, the winners. On the men's side, Sergio Gonzalez continued his excellent spring by defeating the field in the 1,500m run. He easily won the seeding race by 8 seconds before running 4:03.68 in the finals to take the event. And Daniel Crescitelli gave a great performance in the long jump, tallying 6.60m to win the event by a pretty large margin.

On the women's side, the runners came out in force, with Namadhjlah McIntosh, B.B. Shey, Taliah Chatterfield, and Sarai Ivory all winning their events. McIntosh took the 100m dash in 12.46 seconds, just slightly off the mark required to qualify for Nationals. Shey won the 800m dash, an event in which she's already surpassed the "A" standard qualifying mark, with a time of 2:13.80. Meanwhile, Chatterfield and Ivory won the 100m and 400m hurdles, respectively. Chatterfield's 14.82 bumps her up to the A standard, while Ivory's 105.78 earned her the B-standard.

The Cougars also had plenty of second and third place finishers on the day. Billy Walker qualified for the B-standard in the 100-meter dash, running 10.77. He also took 3rd in the 200m dash with a time of 21.95, and helped the men's 4x100-meter relay team qualify for Nationals with a 42.31, good for 2nd place. The 4x400 team narrowly missed qualifying, but should do so easily before the season ends.

Nick Stein took 2nd in the 400m dash, running 49.86. Tony Guadagnini matched that finish in the 800-meter, with a time of 155.52. In field events, Crescitelli wasn't the only Cougar to perform well; David Frewal took 3rd in the pole vault, clearing 4.49 meters.

For the women, Lucia Asbury finished 2nd in the 400-meter dash, and appears poised to qualify for Nationals sooner rather than later. Already headed there is the 4x100-meter relay team, which ran 49.13 to finish 2nd.

Overall, the team looks great, and should continue to improve as the season progresses. Next up for the team is the Cal-Nevada Meet at Fresno on March 30-31.