April 28, 2007

Araya Hits Provisional Mark at Western Oregon Meet

Meet Results

Faven Araya- No. 8 all-time in 400 hurdles

MONMOUTH, Ore. – There was a small contingent of Pacific Lutheran track & field athletes that competed at the John Knight Twilight meet hosted by Western Oregon University on Friday night in Monmouth, Ore. Even though the numbers were small, the Lutes had some huge marks.

Sophomore Faven Araya had the biggest mark of the day in the 400-meter hurdles. Her time of 1:03.56 meets the provisional standard for the NCAA Division III national meet. Araya also moves up to number eight on the PLU all-time top 25 list. Katie Choate also had a good day, running 2:19.63 in the 800-meter run, less then half a second off her personal best.

On the men’s side Jeff Nielsen had his best throw of the season in the shot put with his toss of 40-8. On the track, Chris Ramirez and Mark Manske performed well in the 800-meter run, finishing with almost identical times of 2:03.10 and 2:03.19 respectively. Manske’s time was a lifetime best in that event.

The thinclads are in action next week at the Ken Shannon Invitational hosted by the University of Washington. Action will start at 4:30 p.m.

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