SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. - On saturday, May 7th, the Sonoma State women's track & field team finished day three of the CCAA championships and grabbed a top-10 finish out of the 12 competing schools. Their 10th place finish would go down as the program's best finish since the 2002 season where they earned 39 points as a team and finished alone in 8th place. Head coach
David Lawrence Jr. continues to take both the cross country and track & field programs to new heights and caps off an incredible athletic year with record finishes from both programs in their respective conference championships.
On day one, sophomore
Amber Lanza and freshman
Mia Oggenfuss highlighted the heptathlon as they competed in the 100 meter hurdles, 200 meters, 800 meters, long jump, high jump, javelin and shot put. Lanza and Oggenfuss would each record a top-3 finish in different events. Lanza earned a 2nd place finish out of 10 participants in the 100 meter hurdles as she recorded a time of 15.55 seconds. Oggenfuss would get her 2nd place finish in her trademarked event, the high jump, as she recorded a mark of 1.53 meters.
Throwers
Emma Lopez and Haley Azevedo would compete in the hammer throw early Thursday morning of the CCAA Championships. Each would place inside the top-20 out of 24 participants with Lopez placing 15th and Azevedo following in 16th place. Fellow teammate and thrower Brittney Glor would compete in the shot put on Saturday and record a mark of 9.47 meters (31'1'').
The Seawolves also earned points on the last day of the championships in the 4x100 meter relay and the 4x400 meter relay.
Nia Arceneaux,
Makayla Bernadez,
Katie Sheldon, and
Roxanne Foltz would make up the squad for SSU in the 4x100 and record a time of 49.93 seconds. Good for 7th place and 2 points to the team's total score. Later that day the Seawolves 4x400 team would include Bernadez and Sheldon with the addition of freshmen
Alex Boyle and
Sydney Lopes. As a team, they would record their best time of the season and finish 8th out of the 11 participating teams with a time of 4:04.13. They would earn another point toward the team's total as they finished the three-day championship event with 17 total points, the program's highest point total in the CCAA Championships since 2007.
The team's 17 points would earn them 10th place overall out of the 12 competing schools, going down as the program's best finish in the conference championships since 2002 when the Seawolves placed 8th out of 10 competing schools with 39 points. Congratulations on a terrific spring campaign from the Sonoma State women's track & field team, you can click
HERE for the full results and finishes from all the events in this year's CCAA Championships.
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