CSC marks 19 season bests
Among a number of career bests, two Eagles excelled in one of their events to place themselves second best all-time in Chadron State history during the South Dakota State Indoor Classic, Saturday in Brookings.
Carlie Collier, junior of Dunning, put herself second best for CSC in the 200 meters with a time of 25.21 seconds, placing her third in the race. She also ran a career-best in the 400 meters at 58.71 seconds.
“I know going into the week we were all excited, coming off a good week of training and just to be on that track,” Collier said. “It’s a super-fast track, it’s cool just to go there and run. I think we had a lot of adrenaline going in.”
Logan Moravec, junior of Gering, was the other athlete to put himself second best all-time for Chadron State in the 800 meters with a time of 1:54.91, finishing seventh at the meet.
Through out the day, there were 19 marks that set season bests, 12 in the men’s events and seven in the women’s.
The jumping events saw two first places from Derrick Nwagwu, junior of Aurora, Colorado, in the triple jump and Jourdaine Cerenil, sophomore of Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, in the high jump. Nwagwu leaped 49 feet, 1 inch (14.96 meters) and Cerenil cleared the bar at 5 feet, 7 inches (1.7 meters).
Miranda Gilkey, senior of Lusk, Wyoming, finished second in the high jump at 5 feet, 5 inches (1.65 meters).
In the men’s triple jump, Brock Voth, senior of Berthoud, Colorado, finished fourth at 45 feet, 6.5 inches (13.88 meters), and Joss Linse, senior of Plattsmouth, finished fifth at 45 feet, 3 inches (13.79 meters).
In the men’s high jump, Hector Ortega, redshirt freshman of Northglenn, Colorado, tied for third place by clearing 6 feet, 6.75 inches (two meters).
Dan Reynolds, sophomore of Granby, Colorado, finished fourth in the weight throw with a toss of 58 feet, 1 inch (17.70 meters).
Other running events saw a sixth place from Creighton Trembly, sophomore of Longmont, Colorado, in the 60-meter high hurdles, timed for 8.37 in the finals. Trembly ran the race at 8.25 seconds in his preliminary run.
Chadron State’s 4×400 meter relay-consisting of Logan Peila, sophomore of Miles City, Montana; Greg Logsdon, sophomore of Torrington, Wyoming; Harley Rhoades, senior of Douglas, Wyoming; and Osvaldo Cano, junior of Oshkosh-finished fifth at 3:22.67.
A small group of Eagles will be sent to the next indoor meet, the last regular season meet, is the Stinger Open on Saturday hosted by Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota.