OGDEN, Utah — Senior sprinter Jazmin Ratcliff picked up her second straight Big Sky women's indoor track athlete of the week honor Tuesday as the conference announced its weekly awards.
 
Ratcliff earned her second straight weekly honor after winning the 60-meter hurdles at the Lobo Collegiate Invitational Saturday. Ratcliff won the event in a Big Sky-leading 8.42 seconds (8.44 after altitude conversion), a tenth of a second faster than the time she ran at the UW Indoor Preview the week before. Ratcliff's time Saturday extended her lead in the 60-meter hurdles within the Big Sky Conference to .23 seconds, the widest lead within the conference in any of the sprints 200 meters or shorter.
 
Additionally, Ratcliff moved into a tie for 31st nationally in the 60-meter hurdles, putting her closer to the top 16 in the event, which she'll have to reach in order to fulfill her preseason aspiration of making it to nationals.
 
Ratcliff and the rest of the Portland State track and field teams return to action Jan. 30-31 at the UW Invitational at Dempsey Indoor in Seattle, Wash.