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PORTLAND, Ore. — The stages keep on getting bigger from here for the Portland State track & field team. Two weeks removed from winning three titles and setting school and conference records on the Big Sky stage, the Vikings take a step up to the regional stage at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds, hosted by the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., May 26-28.
 
The Vikings will send five athletes to the regional meet, which serves as a direct feed into the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., June 8-11. The top 12 finishers in each event at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds qualify for the national meet, with events taking place over one or two rounds at the regional stage.
 
Genna Settle will have to advance past two rounds in both the 100 and 200 meters if she hopes to make the NCAA national meet in either event. If Settle can match the improvement she showed at the Big Sky Championships two weeks ago, then she'll have a good chance to qualify for the national meet. Settle knocked close to a quarter of a second off her personal best in the 100 meters while winning the event in 11.46 seconds at the Big Sky meet.
 
Jasmine Woods made a similar jump in the first round of the 100 meters last season before she qualified for nationals in the short sprint. Like Settle at the Big Sky meet, Woods shaved over a quarter of a second off her personal best in the 100 in the first round of the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds, going from an old PR of 11.62 to 11.35 in one fell swoop. Woods then nearly matched her time in the quarterfinals a day later, finishing in 11.36 seconds to advance to the national meet.
 
Like Woods last season, Settle will also compete in the 200 meters at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds, as she joins Woods as one of only five Vikings to qualify in both the 100 and 200 in the same season.
 
Settle qualified for the 200 after again setting a huge personal best in the event at the Big Sky Championships. Settle finished second in the 200 in 23.42 seconds at the Big Sky meet, nearly half-a-second better than her old personal best of 23.87, set in the prelims of the event a day earlier. Settle broke the school record in the 200 with her time at the Big Sky meet, as her time beat the old record of 23.46 that former world outdoor qualifier Karene King set in 2011.
 
Settle will first compete at the regional meet in the first round of the 100 meters at 6:30 p.m. (CT) Thursday. The top three in each heat will then advance automatically into the quarterfinals of the 100 meters the next day, as well as the top six times after that. The quarterfinals of the 100 meters will be at 6:30 p.m. (CT) Friday, with the top three of each heat advancing to nationals, as well as the next three-best times after that.
 
Settle will also compete in the first round of the 200 meters at 8 p.m. (CT) Friday, and 7:35 p.m. (CT) Saturday if she advances to the quarterfinals. The same qualifying procedures apply to the 200 as in the 100, both in the first round and quarterfinals.
 
Junior Akayla Anderson will also face the same qualifying procedures over two rounds potentially in the 100-meter hurdles. Like Settle, Anderson also stood outside of qualifying going into the Big Sky meet, but moved into qualifying position with her performance on the conference level. Anderson finished the prelims of 100-meter hurdles in a personal-best 13.59 seconds, before winning the conference title in the event with her time of 13.70 seconds.
 
Anderson will open her portion of the regional meet with the first round of the 100-meter hurdles at 5 p.m. (CT) Friday. If she advances, then she'll run with a chance to make nationals at 7:05 p.m. (CT) Saturday.
 
Things will be simpler for senior Amanda Boman, as she will only have to compete in one round of the women's 10,000 meters with the semifinals of the event at 9 p.m. (CT) Friday. Boman will only have to finish in the top 12 to make the national meet, which will be easier said than done, as the 12th-best time in the women's 10,000 this season stands as 33:46.71 going into the meet. Boman set her personal best in the 10,000 at 34:40.09 at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 14, but hasn't run a 10,000-meter race since then.
 
Boman will be coming off a strong performance in the women's 5,000 meters at the Big Sky Championships, as she led the race on the final lap before placing second overall. Boman's second-place finish gave her All-Big Sky honors in the 5,000 meters, the longest distance in which any Viking has earned All-Big Sky honors in school history.
 
Freshman ChaQuinn Cook will also only have to face one round of competition, as she competes in the women's triple jump at 6:30 p.m. (CT) Saturday. Cook moved up in the west rankings in the triple jump after winning the Big Sky title in the event with a personal-best mark of 41-02.50 (12.56m).
 
Cook will likely have to up her mark even more at the regional meet, however, if she hopes to finish in the top 12 and qualify for the national meet. The 12th-best mark in the west going into the meet stands at 42-07 (12.98m), close to a foot and a half better than Cook's mark at the Big Sky meet.
 
Sophomore Spenser Schmidt will also likely have to better his mark in the men's long jump if he hopes to advance past the first round, which will take place at 3:30 p.m. (CT) Thursday. Schmidt set his personal best in the long jump at 24-03.75 (7.41m) with a second-place finish at the Big Sky Championships, ranking him tied for 44th in the west this season. Like Cook, however, Schmidt's mark ranks close to a foot and a half behind the 12th-best mark in the event within the west, which currently stands at 25-08.00 (7.82m) going into the meet.
 
If any of the Vikings can qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships, then it'll mark just the second time the Vikings would have qualified athletes for the national meet in two straight seasons, following back-to-back qualifiers in 2009 and 2010.
 
MEET INFORMATION:
May 26-28 – NCAA West Preliminary Rounds – Lawrence, Kan. (Rock Chalk Park)
 
LIVE RESULTS:
Live results from the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds will be available. Fans can find the link to live results on the track & field schedule page on GoViks.com.
 
LIVE VIDEO:
The NCAA West Preliminary Rounds will be streamed online over all three days of the meet. Fans can find the link to live results on the track & field schedule page on GoViks.com.
 
NCAA WEST PRELIMINARY ROUNDS SCHEDULE:
Thursday, May 26
Field Events
Start (CT)                  Event (PSU entries)
3:30 p.m.                    Men's Long Jump – First Round (Flight 1 – Schmidt)
 
Track Events
Start (CT)                  Event (PSU entries)
6:30 p.m.                    Women's 100 Meters – First Round (Heat 2 – Settle)
9 p.m.                          Women's 10,000 Meters – Semifinals (Boman)
 
Friday, May 27
Track Events
Start (CT)                  Event (PSU entries)
5 p.m.                          Women's 100-Meter Hurdles – First Round (Heat 3 – Anderson)
6:30 p.m.                    Women's 100 Meters – Quarterfinal
8 p.m.                          Women's 200 Meters – First Round (Heat 3 – Settle)
 
Saturday, May 28
Field Events
Start (CT)                  Event (PSU entries)
6:30 p.m.                    Women's Triple Jump – First Round (Flight 3 – Cook)
 
Track Events
Start (CT)                  Event (PSU entries)
7:05 p.m.                    Women's 100-Meter Hurdles – Quarterfinal (Anderson)
7:35 p.m.                    Women's 200 Meters – Quarterfinal
 
COMING UP:
If the Vikings have athletes finish in the top 12 of their events at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds, then they'll advance to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., June 8-11.
 
BIG SKY CHAMPIONSHIPS RECAP:
The Vikings took home three Big Sky titles, set school and conference records, and improved NCAA West and U.S. Junior Outdoor qualifying marks at what proved to be a remarkable Big Sky Championships, May 11-14, in Greeley, Colo. Junior Genna Settle nearly pulled off a sweep of the 100- and 200-meter titles at the conference meet, as she won the 100 title and then came within one-hundredth of a second of the 200-meter title. Settle won the 100 meters in 11.46 seconds, tying the Big Sky Conference championship meet record and moving her up to third in the Big Sky in the event. Settle then returned to the track to place second in the 200 meters in 23.42 seconds, .01 behind Weber State's Aaliyah Crawford, who won the event in 23.41. Settle's time still broke the school record in the 200, which former world outdoor qualifier Karene King set at 23.46 in 2011. King's record also stood as the Big Sky Conference record, which Settle would have broken, too, if not for Crawford. Settle's times in the 100 and 200 also moved her into NCAA West qualifying position in both events, as she moved up to 26th in the NCAA West in the 100 and moved into a tie for 30th in the NCAA West with her finish in the 200. Besides Settle, junior Akayla Anderson took home the Big Sky title in the 100-meter hurdles, as she finished in 13.70 seconds, .16 seconds ahead of Sacramento State's Kristen Robinson, who finished second in 13.86 seconds. Like Settle, Anderson also moved up into NCAA West qualifying position in her event at the Big Sky meet, as her time of 13.59 seconds in the prelims of the hurdles moved her into a tie for 37th in the west region. Freshman ChaQuinn Cook, meanwhile, took home the Big Sky title in the triple jump, surpassing Montana's Samantha Evans on her final jump to win the event. Cook jumped 41-02.50 (12.56m) to win the triple jump, giving her the U.S. Junior Outdoor qualifying mark in the event and moving her up to 30th in the NCAA West. Additionally, Cook's outdoor title in the triple jump followed her title in the indoor triple jump, making her the first Viking to sweep the triple jump titles in a single year since Gayle Imran-Sideris in 2005. Outside of the Big Sky title winners, the Vikings also earned All-Big Sky honors in five more events at the Big Sky Championships. Amanda Boman and Spenser Schmidt placed second in the women's 5,000 meters and men's long jump, respectively, while the Vikings' women's 4x100-meter relay, Ben Richardson and Rockwell Tufty all earned All-Big Sky honors with third-place finishes in their events. The Vikings' men's 4x400-meter relay also closed the meet with a school record in the event, as they finished in 3:14.43.
 
OSU HIGH PERFORMANCE MEET RECAP:
The Vikings picked up four Big Sky qualifying marks at the OSU High Performance Meet in Corvallis, Ore., April 29-30, giving the Vikings 24 conference auto marks with the Big Sky Championships less than two weeks to go. Spenser Schmidt (men's 100 meters), Raquel Pellecer (women's javelin), Kevin Robinson (men's 110-meter hurdles) and Sydney Johnson (women's discus) added the qualifying marks for the Vikings. Schmidt, who has already qualified for the conference meet in the long jump, hit the Big Sky auto mark in the 100 meters with an overall personal best of 10.73 seconds. Schmidt had been dancing around the 10.75 he needed to qualify for the Big Sky meet with times of 10.83, 10.81, 10.82 and 10.80 this season, but couldn't quite break through until the OSU meet. Pellecer had a similar break through come in the javelin, as she hit the Big Sky qualifying mark after coming close earlier in the season with a throw of 139-03.50 (42.45m). Pellecer had been as close as two feet to the qualifying mark with her previous season best of 135-08 (41.35), but had been going the other way before hitting the qualifying mark at OSU. Robinson also came through with big a personal best in the 110-meters hurdles to hit the qualifying mark with his finish in 14.74 seconds, while Johnson hit the qualifying mark in the discus with a throw of 148-06.25 (45.26m). Outside of the qualifying marks, junior Ben Richardson improved his qualifying time in the 800 meters, as he ducked under 1:52 for the second straight week with a personal-best finish of 1:51.90. Fellow junior Akayla Anderson also lowered her qualifying time in the 100-meter hurdles as well, as she finished in 13.94 seconds Saturday, .02 better than the 13.96 she ran at the Oregon Relays two weekends ago.
 
TRITON INVITATIONAL RECAP:
Junior Genna Settle shaved close to a quarter of a second off her PR in the 200, giving her a PR in the event for the second straight week, as she led the Vikings at the Triton Invitational at Triton Track & Field Stadium in La Jolla, Calif., April 22-23. Settle ducked under 24 seconds for the first time in her career at the meet, finishing in 23.90 seconds. Settle now ranks second to only Weber State's Aaliyah Crawford within the Big Sky in the 200, and leads the Big Sky in the 100 after setting a personal best in the event at the Oregon Relays last week with her finish of 11.70 seconds. Junior Roazena Miller, meanwhile, added a Big Sky qualifying mark in the 400-meter hurdles, as she set a huge personal best in the event for the second straight week. Miller finished in a personal-best 1:01.85 at the meet, 1.25 seconds better than the PR of 1:03.12 she set a week earlier at the Oregon Relays. The Vikings also improved three of the team's Big Sky qualifying marks at the meet Saturday, starting with the men's 800 meters, where senior Spencer Russell and junior Ben Richardson each ducked under 1:52 for the first time in their careers. Russell finished in 1:51.86, while Richardson finished in 1:51.95, moving them up to third and fourth in the Big Sky this season, respectively. Freshman ChaQuinn Cook, meanwhile, won the triple jump with a personal-best jump of 40-07.25 (12.39m), improving on the 40-03.25 (12.27m) she jumped at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open at the start of the season. Cook's jump narrowed the gap between her and Big Sky-leader Samantha Evans of Montana, who leads the Big Sky with a jump of 42-00.75 (12.82m).
 
OREGON RELAYS RECAP:
Junior Genna Settle had the best meet of her Portland State career at the Oregon Relays, April 15-16, at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. Settle tied a personal best while winning the 100 meters in 11.70 seconds, and also placed second in the 200 meters in a personal-best 24.14 seconds. Settle's time in the 100 increased her Big Sky lead in the event at the time, while her time in the 200 meters moved her within a quarter of a second of the Big Sky lead. Fellow junior Akayla Anderson also lowered her Big Sky-leading time in the 100-meter hurdles, as she finished in a seasonal-best 13.96 seconds. Senior Kevin Robinson and junior Roazena Miller also set new personal bests in their own hurdle events at the meet. Robinson cracked 15 seconds for the first in his career in the men's 110-meter hurdles, as he finished in 14.98 seconds. Miller, meanwhile, finished the 400-meter hurdles in 1:03.12. Sophomore Hunter Pfefferkorn also added another Big Sky qualifying mark for the Vikings with an overall personal best in the 400 meters. Pfefferkorn finished the 400 in 48.66 seconds to give the Vikings a third qualifier in the men's 400, joining junior Mitchell Gable and senior Sheldon Prince. Fellow sophomore Nyalual Beng also set a personal best in the women's 800 meters for a second time this season, as she ducked under 2:14 in the 800 for the first time with her finish in 2:13.75. Senior Kris Tollefson tied her seasonal best in the 800 as well, as she finished in 2:16.10.
 
MT. SAC RELAYS RECAP:
Senior Amanda Boman shaved more than 34 seconds off her personal best in the 10,000 meters at the Mt. SAC Relays on April 14, putting her in good standing to qualify for the NCAA West Preliminary at the end of May. Boman's time of 34:40.09 moved her up to 23rd in the NCAA West at the time, well within the top 48 runners in the west in the 10,000, which stands as the qualifying cutoff for the NCAA regional meet. Boman entered the meet with a PR of 35:14.14, which left her vulnerable to being passed by other runners later in the season. The final qualifying time in the 10,000 meters last season, for instance, was 34:54.16, and the final qualifying time two seasons ago was 35:00.46. Boman also moved up to third in the Big Sky this season with her time at the Mt. SAC Relays, making her a title contender going into the Big Sky Championships in four weeks.
 
JOHN KNIGHT TWILIGHT RECAP:
The Vikings' relay teams shined again at the John Knight Twilight, April 8, at McArthur Field in Monmouth, Ore., as the Vikings swept the women's 4x100, men's 4x100 and men's 4x400 as part of seven event wins for the Vikings at the meet. The Vikings' men's 4x100-meter relay set a new meet record while winning the event in 41.70 seconds, a week after the Vikings' women's 4x400-meter relay set a new school record in the event at the Mondo Mid-Major Team Challenge. The Vikings also blew away the fields in the men's 4x400 meters and women's 4x100 meters, winning each event by several seconds. The Viking women accounted for the Vikings' other four event wins as well, as they finished first in the 200, 400, 1,500 and 5,000 meters. Junior Whitney Diggs led a 1-2-3 Viking sweep in the 200 meters, as she won in 25.41 seconds, while freshman Rachel Vinjamuri and senior Dejuanae Toliver followed in second and third, respectively, in times of 25.64 and 25.84 seconds. Junior Roazena Miller also won the 400 meters with a huge personal best of 57.13 seconds, 1.19 second better than her previous best of 58.32, which she set at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open at the start of the season. Sophomore Nyalual Beng also won the 1,500 meters by close to seven seconds, finishing in 4:43.68, while freshman Jocelyn Reynolds won the 5,000 meters in 19:16.59.
 
MONDO MID-MAJOR TEAM CHALLENGE RECAP:
The Portland State women's 4x400-meter relay team broke the school record in the event to highlight a competitive Mondo Mid-Major Team Challenge, a rare team-scored meet hosted by Sacramento State University at Hornet Stadium on April 2. The Vikings finished the 4x400 in 3:46.38, beating the previous school record of 3:46.96 that the Vikings set at the Big Sky Outdoor Championships last season. Roazena Miller, Dejuanae Toliver, Genna Settle and Rachel Vinjamuri set the record for the Vikings, and the foursome also moved up to third in the Big Sky this season in the event. As a team, the Viking women finished fourth out of four teams with 96 points at the meet, while the Viking men placed third out of three men's teams with 44 points. Additionally, the Vikings picked up four Big Sky qualifying marks at the meet, and improved on two others. Settle improved her qualifying times in both the 100 and 200 meters Saturday, finishing in 11.86 and 24.28 seconds, respectively. Fellow junior Akayla Anderson added another Big Sky qualifying standard for the Viking women, as she took over the Big Sky lead in the 100-meter hurdles with her finish in 13.98 seconds. The rest of the Vikings' new Big Sky qualifying standards came on the men's side, where Mitchell Gable and Sheldon Prince each ducked under the qualifying standard in the men's 400 meters, while Rockwell Tufty cleared the standard in the men's high jump. Gable and Prince picked up their qualifying times in the 400 meters while finishing second and fifth in the event in 48.05 and 48.90 seconds, respectively. Gable's time marked a huge personal best for the junior, as he shaved more than half a second off his old best of 48.65 seconds, and moved him up to third all-time in the event at Portland State. Tufty, meanwhile, cruised to a near-three-inch seasonal best in the high jump, as he cleared his first four heights on his first attempt and finished with a mark of 6-08.75 (2.05m).
 
SAN FRANCISCO STATE DISTANCE CARNIVAL RECAP:
Senior Amanda Boman took over the Big Sky lead in the 10,000 meters for a brief moment, as she finished the 10,000 in 35:14.14 at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival at Cox Stadium on April 1. Boman placed second in the 10,000 meters at the meet, narrowly missing out on the win as Kristen Rohde of High Performance West finished just over a second ahead of Boman in 35:13.12. Boman still finished as the top collegiate runner by over seven seconds, however, and moved up to fourth all-time in the 10,000 meters at Portland State with her time at the meet. Boman's time also gave her the Big Sky qualifying standard in the 10,000 meters, and redshirt freshman Sarah Medved and junior Cheryn Trapp joined Boman with qualifying times of their own. Medved and Trapp finished in 36:13.69 and 37:08.87, respectively, and moved up to seventh and 10th all-time in the 10,000 meters at Portland State as well. Senior Spencer Russell also lowered his Big Sky qualifying time in the 800 meters, finishing in 1:52.88, his best finish ever as a Viking. Sophomore Nyalual Beng and senior Kris Tollefson also debuted in the 800 meters in 2:14.02 and 2:16.10, respectively, while junior Ben Richardson debuted in the 1,500 meters in 3:54.63.
 
AZTEC INVITATIONAL RECAP:
Juniors Whitney Diggs and Genna Settle added two Big Sky qualifying standards for the Portland State track & field team at the Aztec Invitational, March 26, as the pair posted Big Sky qualifying marks in the 400 and 100 meters, respectively. Diggs posted her qualifying time while winning the event for the second straight week, and did so while making a huge improvement over her time from the season-opening meet a week ago. Diggs finished in 55.17 seconds at the Aztec Invitational, more than a second better than her time of 56.40 seconds at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open. Settle, meanwhile, finished the 100 in a Big Sky-qualifying 11.87 seconds, as she made her debut in the event at the meet. Settle's time gave her the early season lead in the Big Sky by .14 seconds. Junior Akayla Anderson, sophomore Ta'mara Richey and freshman Raquel Pellecer also narrowly missed Big Sky qualifying marks in the 100-meter hurdles, triple jump and javelin, respectively. Anderson made her season debut in the 100-meter hurdles in 14.55 seconds, while Richey finished with a mark of 37-05.00 (11.40m) in the triple jump, and Pellecer finished with a mark of 132-06 (40.39m).
 
PACIFIC COMBINED EVENTS RECAP:
Senior Kevin Robinson crushed his personal best while winning the decathlon at the Pacific Combined Events, March 21-22, beating his old PR by 556 points to finish with a score of 6,274 points and meet the Big Sky qualifying standard in the event. Robinson closed the competition with decathlon PRs in the final seven events at Hanson Stadium in Forest Grove, Ore., and beat his previous-best first- and second-day scores in the decathlon at the meet. Additionally, Robinsons' 6,274 points move him up to seventh all-time in the decathlon at Portland State, as well as third in the Big Sky this season. Robinson won the decathlon by 149 points over Corban's Jason Bracken, who had led Robinson by 77 points after the first day of the competition.
 
LEWIS & CLARK SPRING BREAK OPEN RECAP:
The Vikings hit eight Big Sky qualifying standards and won eight events at their first meet of the outdoor season, as they opened their outdoor schedule at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open, March 18-19, at Eldon Fix Track at Griswold Stadium in Portland, Ore. Senior Amanda Boman, junior Genna Settle, sophomore Ta'mara Richey and freshman ChaQuinn Cook hit qualifying standards in the women's 5,000 meters, 200 meters, long jump and triple jump, respectively, while sophomore Spenser Schmidt and freshman Jean-Luc Toku hit the standards in the men's long jump and triple jump, and senior Spencer Russell and junior Ben Richardson each ducked under the qualifying time in the men's 800 meters. Cook and Schmidt continued their strong finishes to the indoor season with their auto marks, as they are both coming off Big Sky individual titles during the indoor season. Cook, who won the Big Sky title in the indoor triple jump, won the outdoor triple jump at the meet with a personal-best mark of 40-03.25 (12.27m). Schmidt, meanwhile, followed his Big Sky title in the indoor long jump with a win in the outdoor long jump at the meet, finishing with a personal best of 24-03.50 (7.40) that beat the No. 2 mark at the meet by nearly a foot and a half. Schmidt's mark also put the sophomore in contention to qualify for the NCAA West Preliminary, as it would have been enough to qualify him last year. Additionally, freshman Jean-Luc Toku set the best mark in the men's triple jump by a Viking in 43 years while winning the event with a personal best of 47-07.25 (14.51m). Toku now ranks second only to school record-holder Don Hall, who set the triple jump record at 48-06.00 (14.78m) in 1973.
 
2016 INDOOR RECAP:
The Portland State track & field team's 2016 indoor season ended with a pair of Big Sky titles for the Vikings, as sophomore Spenser Schmidt and freshman ChaQuinn Cook claimed the Big Sky titles in the men's long jump and women's triple jump, respectively. Schmidt won his Big Sky title with a huge personal best of 24-07.00 (7.49m), more than a foot better than his personal best entering the meet. Schmidt's win in the long jump marked the Vikings' first Big Sky indoor title in the event since 2003, and also gave Schmidt the best mark by a Viking since Brown set the school record at 24-08.50 (7.53m) that same year. Cook, meanwhile, became the first Viking female athlete to win a Big Sky title in the indoor triple jump since 2005. Cook beat her nearest competitor by over a foot, cracking 40 feet for a personal best of 40-01.50 (12.23m). The Vikings also got seven more All-Big Sky performances, including two each for sophomore Ta'mara Richey and junior Genna Settle. Richey placed third in both the long jump and triple jump at the meet, while Settle earned All-Big Sky honors with a second-place finish in the 60 meters and a third-place finish in the 200 meters. Settle now has five All-Big Sky honors in her Portland State career, the most of any current Viking athlete. Juniors Akayla Anderson and Whitney Diggs also earned All-Big Sky honors with second-place finishes in the 60-meter hurdles and 400 meters, respectively. Ben Richardson pulled off the biggest surprise at the Big Sky meet, as he finished third in the 800 meters to earn All-Big Sky honors in an event in which he entered the meet ranked 14th in the Big Sky. Senior Rockwell Tufty did not earn All-Big Sky honors as he placed fourth in the high jump, but broke the school record in the event with a clearance of 6-09.50 (2.07m). Tufty's record gives him sole possession of both the indoor and outdoor records at Portland State, making him indisputably the best high jumper in school history.
 
VIKINGS IN NCAA WEST TOP 50:
The Vikings finished the season with five athletes ranked in the top 50 across six different events, giving them a large contingent at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds in Lawrence, Kan. Freshman ChaQuinn Cook ranks highest of the Vikings, as she moved into a tie for 34th in the west region after winning the Big Sky title in the triple jump with a mark of 41-02.50 (12.56m). Junior Genna Settle also moved into a tie for 36th in the 100 meters with her winning time of 11.46 seconds at the Big Sky meet, and also moved up to 42nd in the west with her time of 23.42 in the 200 meters. Amanda Boman, Spenser Schmidt and Akayla Anderson also qualified for the west regional, as they ranked 43rd, tied for 44th and 46th in the women's 10,000, men's long jump and women's 100-meter hurdles, respectively.