Eagles run for season bests

The Eagle added another meet into their schedule with a Saturday meet hosted by Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado.

“Our results at Colorado Mines were exceptional,” Head Track and Field Coach Riley Northrup said in a message to The Eagle. “We went with the purpose of improving marks before conference, and basically every performance was a season best.”

Together, Morgan Fawver, sophomore of McCook; Emory Yoosook, freshman of Casper, Wyoming; Osvaldo Cano, sophomore of Oshkosh; and Brodie Roden, junior of Riverton, Wyoming, won the 4×100-meter relay with 40.8 seconds. 

Fawver finished the 100-meter dash with 10.62 seconds, earning him second. 

Roden also finished second place in the 200 meters with a time of 21.27 seconds, setting a new career best. 

Cano finished the 100 meters fifth, but he finished with a career best at 11.17 seconds. Logan Moravec, sophomore of Gering, also marked a career best in the 800 meters with a time of 1:54.64, placing him sixth.

“Anytime the results are improving leading up to the championships meet, we know the athletes are trending in the right direction,” Northrup said. “That should result in their best performances happening at the right time.”

Beating his career best by about 82 seconds, Garrett Avery, sophomore of Sheridan, Wyoming, finished the 5000 meters seventh with a time of 16:19.11 

Yoosook jumped 22 feet, 1 inch in the long jump, finished sixth and also setting a career best.

Creighton Trembly, freshman of Longmont, Colorado, finished fourth in the 110 hurdles with a run of 15.47 seconds. Harley Rhoades, junior of Douglas, Wyoming, finished the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 56.95 seconds, placing fifth.

Madison Watson, senior of Mitchell, finished fifth in the 5000 meters, timed at 19:23.76.

Twenty-four men and 13 women qualified for the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Championships meet, Saturday, that will travel to Pueblo, Colorado.

Northrup said that for the national meet, athletes that qualified are Roden in the 400 meters; Derrick Nwagwu, sophomore of Aurora, Colorado, in the triple jump; Shane Collins, sophomore of Bison, South Dakota, in the hammer throw and discus; and the 4×100 relay

“There are several others that are right on the cusp,” he said. “So hopefully this weekend’s amazing looking forecast, heightened competition, and previous week’s training will culminate in some more NCAA qualifying performances.”