SPOKANE, WA – Warrior Track and Field opened its 2025 outdoor season on Tuesday at the Sam Adams Classic, hosted by NCAA Division III Whitworth. LC State finished the day with seven first-place finishes.
“A real good start to the outdoor season. We had a lot of our athletes hit conference qualifying marks which is a great way to start, and a lot of our returners hit marks that were really close to where they finished last year, so that is also quite encouraging,” coach Mike Collins said.
TRACK
Keith Uitdewilligen ran the fifth-fastest time in school history in the 3,000m steeplechase with a massive personal-best. The sophomore bettered his previous time by 11 seconds to win the event with a time of 9:52.26. Manuel Valdez finished second with a time of 10:50.18. Senior Jacob Adams finished first in the 3,000m with a time of 9:28.14.
Emily Collins won both the 100m (13.05) and 200m (26.08). The 100m was her first, while she was just off her personal-best in the 200m.
On the men’s side in sprints, Preston Cooper was second in the 100m (11.22) and 200m (22.30). Max Funk was 17th in the 100m (12.59) and Jordan Castillo was seventh in the 200m (22.94).
London Kirk won the 400m race with a time of 48.39 while teammate Castillo finished third (50.08). Griffen Parsells finished first in the 800m (1:53.25). In the 5,000m, Kobe Wessels ran a personal-best time of 14:58.19 to finish second. He shaved nearly a minute off his previous best, while Connor Alexander finished ninth (16:29.51).
Senior Grace McCormick ran a PR in the 1,500m to finish seventh (5:12.62).
The team of Brandon Decker, James Bogdanowicz, Cameron Carrara and Funk placed fourth in the 4x400m relay (3:35.88), and Alexander, Parsells, Wessels and Adams were seventh (3:38.83).
FIELD
In his javelin debut, Perry Severijnse threw the second-farthest in program history and just missed a national mark with a distance of 57.91m. He finished second in the field and Carrara in eighth (38.97m).
Sophomore Gianna Anderson also had a big day in the javelin with a personal-best of more than two meters. She finished seventh with a mark of 34.58m.
Bogdanowicz cleared his best outdoor height in the pole vault and won the event with a mark of 4.42m. Decker was third at 3.97m.
Haylee Appleford led the Warrior women in the discus and shot put to start the day in the field. The sophomore was third in the discus (36.63m) with Grace Osborne in sixth (34.94m), Hope Zollman in seventh (34.67m) and Jacklin Linnemeyer in 13th (27.55m). Appleford was third in the shot put (11.62m) with Zollman in ninth (10.36m), Linnemeyer in 11th (9.72m), Faith Wersland in 13th (9.57m) and Osborne in 14th (9.54m).
Osborne led the group in the hammer throw with a sixth-place finish (40.03m). Appleford threw a personal-best distance of 37.26m to place 10th, Wersland was 11th (36.87m), Linnemeyer finished 12th (35.64m) and Zollman placed 13th (28.92m).
Funk finished sixth in the long jump (5.62m) and Carrara was ninth (4.02m). In throws, Sam Weller led a pair of Warriors with a sixth-place finish in the hammer (44.24m) and 10th-place finish in the shot put (12.45m). Jr Mendoza was 11th in the hammer (36.58m) and 12th in the shot put (11.82m).
UP NEXT
LC State will split its team next weekend with a group of Warriors going back to Whitworth for the Bucs Scoring and Multi Mar. 20-21, and another heading to the Oregon Preview in Eugene, Ore., Mar. 21-22.
