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Northwest Conference Championships Women: 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1997 1998 1999 Men: 1971 1988 1989 1990 1991 1993 1994 1997 1998 1999 2000 |
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May 12, 2008 Araya Improves on NCAA Provisional Mark in 400-Meter Hurdles THIS WEEK: The Pacific Lutheran track and field team will compete at the Willamette Last Chance Meet on Thursday. The meet gets underway at 4 p.m. LAST WEEK: This past weekend the PLU thinclads competed at the Ken Shannon/Ken Foreman Invitational at Husky Stadium. The meet, co-hosted by Seattle Pacifc Unviersity and the University of Washington, honored the legendary former coaches at each school, Ken Foreman and Ken Shannon. Faven Araya highlighted the meet as she improved on her provisional mark in the 400-meter hurdles with a 1:02.14 performance. Araya’s time was a lifetime best and is currently the second fastest NCAA Division III mark in the nation. Lakia Arceneaux also posted a lifetime best in the long jump, 16-7, and she notched a solid 34-5 1/2 in her first effort in the triple jump. Lexie Miller shattered her own school record in the 3000-meter steeplechase, finishing in a time of 11:30.73. On the men’s side Colton Oliphant threw a personal best 145-0 in the hammer throw, moving the senior onto the all-time top 25 list. NATIONAL RANKINGS: With one meet left on the schedule PLU has two athletes who have essentially punched their tickets to the NCAA Division III national meet. Faven Araya is currently ranked second in the 400-meter hurdles and Taylor Hacker sits in eighth in the hammer throw. Neither athlete has met the automatic mark, but their provisional marks are high enough to ensure they’ll be selected to compete at nationals. Over the years PLU has had over 100 athletes earn All-American honors in track and field, but the Lutes have been in a slump the past few years. The last All-American produced by the PLU track program was in 2005 when now assistant coach Dan Haakenson placed seventh in the hammer throw. With Araya and Hacker both ranked in the top eight the chances of PLU chalking up two more All-Americans to the list looks good. RECORDS BOOK: Most track and field all-time lists go 10 deep, but here at PLU the lists dive a little deeper, 25 deep to be exact. A handful of athletes have produced marks that made the top 25 lists this season. - Faven Araya: #13 in the 400-meter dash (58.88), #14 in the 100-meter
hurdles (15.45), #5 in the 400-meter hurdles (1:02.14)
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