Warrior Women’s Track and Field Updates Record Book with Personal-Best Marks

(Spokane, WA), LC State Women’s Track and Field was in action on Saturday at the Inland Northwest Invitational at The Podium in Spokane. Multiple Warriors saw personal-best marks with a large portion of the team competing.

“No new national qualifiers today but a good day nonetheless,” coach Mike Collins said. “A lot of PRs for many of the athletes and a lot of season-bests as well, so we saw a lot of progress today which is what we want to see at this point in the season. New names in some of the records here and there so we feel pretty good about where we are at. We’ve got some things to work on and we will definitely be working on them and hopefully next weekend, we will see our national team grow a little bit.”

Senior Sydnie Zywina repeated a national qualifying mark in the triple jump with a leap of 11.79m. She won the event at the meet.

Karissa Lindner had a busy day with action in the 60m dash, 200m dash and long jump. The sophomore clocked a time of 18:03 in the prelims of the 60m dash to place 10^th and was 20^th in the 200m (26.76). Her best performance of the day was in the long jump where she leapt a distance of 5.20m which ranks fifth in the Warrior record book.

Camille Ussher clocked the fifth-fastest mile in program history with a time of 5:11.93 She placed eighth overall, Grace Tiegs was 10^th with a personal-best time of 5:14.97 and Grace McCormick was 29^th (5:52.94). Ussher also competed in the 800m where she finished 29^th (2:29.28).

Junior Emily Collins placed fourth in the 400m (59.18). Freshman Damaris Kibiwot was fifth in the 3,000m (10:22.66), Lily Bennet was 15^th (10:57.68) and Haileyann Johnson was 31^st (14:23.93).

In field events, Grace Osborne led the group in the weight throw with a 15^th-place finish (13.90m). Faith Wersland threw a personal-best distance of 13.47m to finish 18^th, Haylle Appleford was 32^nd (10.45m) and Hope Zollman was 36^th (8.81m).

Appleford went on to PR in the shot put and better her third-place mark in the LC State record book with a distance of 11.95m. She placed 10^th overall with Zollman in 24^th (10.65m) and Osborne in 33^rd (9.86m).