Big Sky Meet Schedule
2/26/2004 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field
Big Sky Championships -- Schedule of Events
Friday, February 27
9:00 am Men’s Heptathlon: 55, long jump, shot put, high jump
9:30 am Women’s Pentathlon: 55 hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump, 800
1:30 pm Men’s Weight Throw, FINALS
3:00 pm Men’s Long Jump, FINALS
4:00 pm Women’s 55 Hurdles, Trials
4:15 pm Men’s 55 Hurdles, Trials
4:30 pm Women’s 55, Trials
4:40 pm Men’s 55, Trials
5:10 pm Women’s 400, Trials
5:25 pm Men’s 400, Trials
Men’s Pole Vault, FINALS
5:30 pm Women’s Long Jump, FINALS
5:55 pm Women’s 800, Trials
6:00 pm Women’s High Jump, FINAL
6:10 pm Men’s 800, Trials
6:30 pm Women’s 200, Trials
Women’s Shot Put, FINAL
6:50 pm Men’s 200, Trials
7:10 pm Women’s 5,000, FINAL
7:35 pm Men’s 5,000, FINAL
7:55 pm Women’s Distance Medley, FINAL
8:10 pm Men’s Distance Medley, FINAL
Saturday, February 28
9:00 am Men’s Heptathlon: 55 hurdles, Pole Vault, 1,000 meters
11:30 am Women’s Weight Throw, FINALS
1:00 pm Men’s Triple Jump, FINALS
Women’s Pole Vault, FINALS
2:00 pm Women’s 55 Hurdles, FINALS
2:10 pm Men’s 55 Hurdles, FINALS
2:20 pm Women’s 55, FINALS
2:25 pm Men’s 55, FINALS
2:45 pm Women’s Mile, FINALS
2:55 pm Men’s Mile, FINALS
3:00 pm Men’s Shot Put, FINALS
3:05 pm Women’s 44, FINALS
3:15 pm Men’s 400, FINALS
Women’s Triple Jump, FINALS
3:25 pm Women’s 800, FINALS
3:30 pm Men’s High Jump, FINALS
Men’s 800, FINALS
3:40 pm Women’s 200, FINALS
3:50 pm Men’s 200, FINALS
4:00 pm Women’s 3,000, FINALS
4:15 pm Men’s 3,000, FINALS
4:30 pm Women’s 4 x 400 Relay, FINALS
4:45 pm Men’s 4 x 400, FINALS
Event-by-Event Synopsis
Men’s 55 meters
Friday, 4:40 pm/Saturday, 2:25 pm
Josh Artis of Eastern (6th in ‘03) and ISU’s Skylar Stevenson (8th) are the only returning placewinners... Joey Thomas became MSU’s first all-conference 55 m or 60 yd sprinter last year.
MSU Entries: Brandon Roosevelt, Steve Heberly
Women’s 55 meters
Friday, 4:30 pm/Saturday, 2:20 pm
MSU has no athletes entered... league-leader Ena Shemi of PSU is the highest returner, having finished third last year... fourth-place finisher Nina Wade of Weber also returns.
MSU Entries: none
Men’s 55 hurdles
Friday, 4:15 pm/Saturday, 2:25 pm
NAU’s Bubba Edmonds leads the league this year, but finished second to fellow returner Wiley King last year... four of last year’s top five finishers return.
MSU Entries: Blake Barnes, Justin Schwartzenberger
Women’s 55 hurdles
Friday, 4 pm/Saturday 2 pm
Erin Jones is seeded second, .01 behind Weber’s Colby Foxley.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones, Kelsey Kirkpatrick
Men’s 200 meters
Friday, 6:50 pm/Saturday, 3:50 pm
NAU holds the top three seeds... a Lumberjack has won the 200 in the last three Big Sky Indoor meets... NAU’s Johnny Marshall, who finished fourth last year, is the highest returning finisher.
MSU Entries: Steve Heberly
Women’s 200 meters
Friday, 6:30 pm/Saturday, 3:40 pm
ISU’s graduated star Selena Frazier won the last two... 11th seeded Jessica Thomas of Sac is the only returning placewinner in a field that includes four freshmen.
MSU Entries: none
Men’s 400 meters
Friday, 5:25 pm/Saturday, 3:15 pm
No Bobcat has earned all-conference honors in the 400/440 since 1979.
MSU Entries: Michael Novotny, Ty Norris
Women’s 400 meters
Friday, 5:10 pm/Saturday, 3:05 pm
Montana freshman Loni Perkins is the top seed... Perkins, MSU’s Kelsey Kirkpatrick, and Tiffiny Williams of NAU are all frosh seeded in the top six.
MSU Entries: Leslie Baldus, Kelsey Kirkpatrick
Men’s 800 meters
Friday, 6:10 pm/Saturday, 3:30 pm
Defending league champ Brad Osguthorpe returns, but is seeded second behind ISU’s Kol Henrikson... EWU’s Josh Arnold is the only other returning placewinner.
MSU Entries: Nick Green, Ned Miller
Women’s 800 meters
Friday, 5:55 pm/Saturday, 3:25 pm
Johanna Nilsson of NAU returns to defend her title... five of the top six seeds are returning placewinners... Johanna and Ida Nilsson are the league’s only provisional qualifiers.
MSU Entries: none
Men’s Mile
Saturday, 2:55 pm
Three athletes -- Scott McGowan of UM, Jace Nye and Steve Shepherd of Weber -- have provisionally qualified, and MSU’s Kevin Clary is with .02 of qualifying... Scott McGowan is the only returning all-conference performer in this event... Scott McGowan is ranked fifth nationally, Weber’s Jace Nye is 14th, Weber’s Steve Shepherd is 16th, and Weber’s Riley Cook is 26th.
MSU Entries: Caleb Ambrose, Kevin Clary
Women’s Mile
Saturday, 2:45 pm
Last year’s champion, Johanna Nilsson of NAU, leads the league with a provisional mark of 4:45.05... three of last year’s top four finishers are entered.
MSU Entries: Ariana Lee
Men’s 3,000 meters
Saturday, 4:15 pm
Last year’s runnerup, Ken Richardson of Weber, is second this year, behind MSU’s Casey Jermyn... Jermyn and Richardson have each provisionally qualified, and Jermyn is ranked 25th in Division I.
MSU Entries: Kevin Clary, Casey Jermyn, Josh Ricardi,
Women’s 3,000 meters
Saturday, 4 pm
NAU’s Ida Nilsson, 2002 champion, has a provisional mark, and leads the league by nearly 30 seconds... Nilsson and MSU’s Ari Lee are the last two champions... Ida Nilsson is ranked 15th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Ariana Lee, Mayra Morgado
Men’s 5,000 meters
Friday, 7:35 pm
MSU’s Casey Jermyn and Kevin Clary have the best marks in the league this year, and Jermyn is two seconds from a provisional qualifying mark.
MSU Entries: Kevin Clary, Jonathan Gibson, Casey Jermyn
Women’s 5,000 meters
Friday, 7:10 pm
NAU holds the top two seeds... defending champ Ari Lee of MSU is seeded 10th.
MSU Entries: Ariana Lee
Men’s 4 x 400 Relay
Saturday, 4:45 pm
ISU leads Weber by less than 30 seconds.
MSU Entries: Brad Benjamin/Steve Heberly/Michael Novotny/Ty Norris
Women’s 4 x 400 Relay
Saturday, 4:30 pm
Weber leads the league at 3:53.74.
MSU Entries: Leslie Baldus/Erin Jones/Kelsey Kirkpatrick
Men’s Distance Medley
Friday, 8:10 pm
Montana leads the league at 9:49.23, within a second-and-a-half of the provisional mark.
MSU Entries: Caleb Ambrose/Brad Benjamin/Ned Miller/Josh Ricardi
Women’s Distance Medley
Friday, 7:55 pm
Idaho State and Weber State are within a half-second of each other for the league lead.
MSU Entries: Lindsey Burrington/Julie Ho/Mayra Morgado/Elisabeth Woody
Men’s Shot Put
Saturday, 3 pm
Former champion and two-time all-conference Blake Jackson has provisionally qualified... MSU holds the top three spots in the league standings... Blake Jackson is ranked 16th nationally.
MSU Entries: Josh Henigman, Blake Jackson, Justin Jessop, Tanner Rauk,
Women’s Shot Put
Friday, 6:30 pm
MSU holds the top five seeds... MSU’s Jen Allen is a two-time all-conference thrower in the shot put... Allen has provisionally qualified for the NCAA meet, and is ranked 38th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Jen Allen, Hannah Furlong, Carra Greyn, Megan Lee
Men’s Weight Throw
Friday, 1:30 pm
MSU athletes have won two straight hammer throw titles, but Josh Henigman is seeded second and Blake Jackson third behind NAU’s Karim Chester... Chester leads the league by five feet, and is the only provisional qualifier.
MSU Entries: Josh Henigman, Blake Jackson, Tanner Rauk
Women’s Weight Throw
Saturday, 11:30 am
MSU’s Jen Allen leads the league with an NCAA provisional mark of 61-10.5... MSU holds down spots 1-2-3-4-5-7-8... Jen Allen is ranked 24th nationally.
MSU Entries: Jen Allen, Lynn Craver, Karen Helvey, Ashley Jones, Mary Jo Kraft, Lisa Lord, Megan Lee
Men’s Long Jump
Friday, 3 pm
MSU has no entries... Weber State athletes hold three of the top four spots.
MSU Entries: none
Women’s Long Jump
Friday, 5:3o pm
Sacramento State holds three of the top four spots... half of last year’s eight placewinners return... five of the 13 entries are from Sac State.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones, Kelsey Kirkpatrick, Cassie Nollmeyer
Men’s Triple Jump
Saturday, 1 pm
ISU’s Ben Allen leads the Big Sky... Allen is the only senior among the Big Sky’s top six triple jumpers... no one has hit the provisional mark.
MSU Entries: Jesse Hanna
Women’s Triple Jump
Saturday, 3:15 pm
There are no seniors among the league’s top 10 triple jumpers... MSU’s Kelsey Kirkpatrick and Erin Jones are ranked in the top five.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones, Kelsey Kirkpatrick, Cassie Nollmeyer
Men’s High Jump
Saturday, 3:30 pm
Montana’s Dan Casey and Jas Gill are tied at the top of the league... MSU’s Brad Benjamin is the only Bobcat entered.
MSU Entries: none
Women’s High Jump
Friday, 6 pm
MSU’s Erin Jones is seeded third... last year’s top two finishers, Lanette Noble of Weber and Lisa Gunderson of PSU, are seeded first and second... Lanette Noble is ranked 17th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Amy Jones, Erin Jones,
Men’s Pole Vault
Friday, 5:25 pm
Two of last year’s top three finishers (Ben Allen and Paul Litchfield, ISU) return... Litchfield is a two-time all-conference choice, and is the league’s only provisional qualifier so far this year... Litchfield is ranked 11th nationally.
MSU Entries: Brad Benjamin, Shane Booth, Ed Keefe, Thomas Seely
Women’s Pole Vault
Saturday, 1 pm
MSU’s Michelle Hodge is the defending champion... Hodge is the only athlete in the league within six inches of the provisional mark of 12-9.5.
MSU Entries: Michelle Hodge, Cassie Nollmeyer
Heptathlon
Friday, 9 am/Saturday, 9 am
Four Big Sky athletes have provisionally qualified... Adam Matthews if ISU is ranked 16th in the nation, Weber’s Wiley King is 19th, Andrew Levin of UM is 21st, and Paul Litchfield of ISU is 24th... Andrew Levin of Montana is 21st nationally, and ISU’s Paul Litchfield is 24th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Brad Benjamin, Jim Evans, Steven Hodge
Pentathlon
Friday, 9:30 am
Erin Jones is ranked 13th in the nation, is the only Big Sky athlete to have hit the provisional qualifying mark, and leads the league by over 500 points.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones
Friday, February 27
9:00 am Men’s Heptathlon: 55, long jump, shot put, high jump
9:30 am Women’s Pentathlon: 55 hurdles, high jump, shot put, long jump, 800
1:30 pm Men’s Weight Throw, FINALS
3:00 pm Men’s Long Jump, FINALS
4:00 pm Women’s 55 Hurdles, Trials
4:15 pm Men’s 55 Hurdles, Trials
4:30 pm Women’s 55, Trials
4:40 pm Men’s 55, Trials
5:10 pm Women’s 400, Trials
5:25 pm Men’s 400, Trials
Men’s Pole Vault, FINALS
5:30 pm Women’s Long Jump, FINALS
5:55 pm Women’s 800, Trials
6:00 pm Women’s High Jump, FINAL
6:10 pm Men’s 800, Trials
6:30 pm Women’s 200, Trials
Women’s Shot Put, FINAL
6:50 pm Men’s 200, Trials
7:10 pm Women’s 5,000, FINAL
7:35 pm Men’s 5,000, FINAL
7:55 pm Women’s Distance Medley, FINAL
8:10 pm Men’s Distance Medley, FINAL
Saturday, February 28
9:00 am Men’s Heptathlon: 55 hurdles, Pole Vault, 1,000 meters
11:30 am Women’s Weight Throw, FINALS
1:00 pm Men’s Triple Jump, FINALS
Women’s Pole Vault, FINALS
2:00 pm Women’s 55 Hurdles, FINALS
2:10 pm Men’s 55 Hurdles, FINALS
2:20 pm Women’s 55, FINALS
2:25 pm Men’s 55, FINALS
2:45 pm Women’s Mile, FINALS
2:55 pm Men’s Mile, FINALS
3:00 pm Men’s Shot Put, FINALS
3:05 pm Women’s 44, FINALS
3:15 pm Men’s 400, FINALS
Women’s Triple Jump, FINALS
3:25 pm Women’s 800, FINALS
3:30 pm Men’s High Jump, FINALS
Men’s 800, FINALS
3:40 pm Women’s 200, FINALS
3:50 pm Men’s 200, FINALS
4:00 pm Women’s 3,000, FINALS
4:15 pm Men’s 3,000, FINALS
4:30 pm Women’s 4 x 400 Relay, FINALS
4:45 pm Men’s 4 x 400, FINALS
Event-by-Event Synopsis
Men’s 55 meters
Friday, 4:40 pm/Saturday, 2:25 pm
Josh Artis of Eastern (6th in ‘03) and ISU’s Skylar Stevenson (8th) are the only returning placewinners... Joey Thomas became MSU’s first all-conference 55 m or 60 yd sprinter last year.
MSU Entries: Brandon Roosevelt, Steve Heberly
Women’s 55 meters
Friday, 4:30 pm/Saturday, 2:20 pm
MSU has no athletes entered... league-leader Ena Shemi of PSU is the highest returner, having finished third last year... fourth-place finisher Nina Wade of Weber also returns.
MSU Entries: none
Men’s 55 hurdles
Friday, 4:15 pm/Saturday, 2:25 pm
NAU’s Bubba Edmonds leads the league this year, but finished second to fellow returner Wiley King last year... four of last year’s top five finishers return.
MSU Entries: Blake Barnes, Justin Schwartzenberger
Women’s 55 hurdles
Friday, 4 pm/Saturday 2 pm
Erin Jones is seeded second, .01 behind Weber’s Colby Foxley.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones, Kelsey Kirkpatrick
Men’s 200 meters
Friday, 6:50 pm/Saturday, 3:50 pm
NAU holds the top three seeds... a Lumberjack has won the 200 in the last three Big Sky Indoor meets... NAU’s Johnny Marshall, who finished fourth last year, is the highest returning finisher.
MSU Entries: Steve Heberly
Women’s 200 meters
Friday, 6:30 pm/Saturday, 3:40 pm
ISU’s graduated star Selena Frazier won the last two... 11th seeded Jessica Thomas of Sac is the only returning placewinner in a field that includes four freshmen.
MSU Entries: none
Men’s 400 meters
Friday, 5:25 pm/Saturday, 3:15 pm
No Bobcat has earned all-conference honors in the 400/440 since 1979.
MSU Entries: Michael Novotny, Ty Norris
Women’s 400 meters
Friday, 5:10 pm/Saturday, 3:05 pm
Montana freshman Loni Perkins is the top seed... Perkins, MSU’s Kelsey Kirkpatrick, and Tiffiny Williams of NAU are all frosh seeded in the top six.
MSU Entries: Leslie Baldus, Kelsey Kirkpatrick
Men’s 800 meters
Friday, 6:10 pm/Saturday, 3:30 pm
Defending league champ Brad Osguthorpe returns, but is seeded second behind ISU’s Kol Henrikson... EWU’s Josh Arnold is the only other returning placewinner.
MSU Entries: Nick Green, Ned Miller
Women’s 800 meters
Friday, 5:55 pm/Saturday, 3:25 pm
Johanna Nilsson of NAU returns to defend her title... five of the top six seeds are returning placewinners... Johanna and Ida Nilsson are the league’s only provisional qualifiers.
MSU Entries: none
Men’s Mile
Saturday, 2:55 pm
Three athletes -- Scott McGowan of UM, Jace Nye and Steve Shepherd of Weber -- have provisionally qualified, and MSU’s Kevin Clary is with .02 of qualifying... Scott McGowan is the only returning all-conference performer in this event... Scott McGowan is ranked fifth nationally, Weber’s Jace Nye is 14th, Weber’s Steve Shepherd is 16th, and Weber’s Riley Cook is 26th.
MSU Entries: Caleb Ambrose, Kevin Clary
Women’s Mile
Saturday, 2:45 pm
Last year’s champion, Johanna Nilsson of NAU, leads the league with a provisional mark of 4:45.05... three of last year’s top four finishers are entered.
MSU Entries: Ariana Lee
Men’s 3,000 meters
Saturday, 4:15 pm
Last year’s runnerup, Ken Richardson of Weber, is second this year, behind MSU’s Casey Jermyn... Jermyn and Richardson have each provisionally qualified, and Jermyn is ranked 25th in Division I.
MSU Entries: Kevin Clary, Casey Jermyn, Josh Ricardi,
Women’s 3,000 meters
Saturday, 4 pm
NAU’s Ida Nilsson, 2002 champion, has a provisional mark, and leads the league by nearly 30 seconds... Nilsson and MSU’s Ari Lee are the last two champions... Ida Nilsson is ranked 15th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Ariana Lee, Mayra Morgado
Men’s 5,000 meters
Friday, 7:35 pm
MSU’s Casey Jermyn and Kevin Clary have the best marks in the league this year, and Jermyn is two seconds from a provisional qualifying mark.
MSU Entries: Kevin Clary, Jonathan Gibson, Casey Jermyn
Women’s 5,000 meters
Friday, 7:10 pm
NAU holds the top two seeds... defending champ Ari Lee of MSU is seeded 10th.
MSU Entries: Ariana Lee
Men’s 4 x 400 Relay
Saturday, 4:45 pm
ISU leads Weber by less than 30 seconds.
MSU Entries: Brad Benjamin/Steve Heberly/Michael Novotny/Ty Norris
Women’s 4 x 400 Relay
Saturday, 4:30 pm
Weber leads the league at 3:53.74.
MSU Entries: Leslie Baldus/Erin Jones/Kelsey Kirkpatrick
Men’s Distance Medley
Friday, 8:10 pm
Montana leads the league at 9:49.23, within a second-and-a-half of the provisional mark.
MSU Entries: Caleb Ambrose/Brad Benjamin/Ned Miller/Josh Ricardi
Women’s Distance Medley
Friday, 7:55 pm
Idaho State and Weber State are within a half-second of each other for the league lead.
MSU Entries: Lindsey Burrington/Julie Ho/Mayra Morgado/Elisabeth Woody
Men’s Shot Put
Saturday, 3 pm
Former champion and two-time all-conference Blake Jackson has provisionally qualified... MSU holds the top three spots in the league standings... Blake Jackson is ranked 16th nationally.
MSU Entries: Josh Henigman, Blake Jackson, Justin Jessop, Tanner Rauk,
Women’s Shot Put
Friday, 6:30 pm
MSU holds the top five seeds... MSU’s Jen Allen is a two-time all-conference thrower in the shot put... Allen has provisionally qualified for the NCAA meet, and is ranked 38th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Jen Allen, Hannah Furlong, Carra Greyn, Megan Lee
Men’s Weight Throw
Friday, 1:30 pm
MSU athletes have won two straight hammer throw titles, but Josh Henigman is seeded second and Blake Jackson third behind NAU’s Karim Chester... Chester leads the league by five feet, and is the only provisional qualifier.
MSU Entries: Josh Henigman, Blake Jackson, Tanner Rauk
Women’s Weight Throw
Saturday, 11:30 am
MSU’s Jen Allen leads the league with an NCAA provisional mark of 61-10.5... MSU holds down spots 1-2-3-4-5-7-8... Jen Allen is ranked 24th nationally.
MSU Entries: Jen Allen, Lynn Craver, Karen Helvey, Ashley Jones, Mary Jo Kraft, Lisa Lord, Megan Lee
Men’s Long Jump
Friday, 3 pm
MSU has no entries... Weber State athletes hold three of the top four spots.
MSU Entries: none
Women’s Long Jump
Friday, 5:3o pm
Sacramento State holds three of the top four spots... half of last year’s eight placewinners return... five of the 13 entries are from Sac State.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones, Kelsey Kirkpatrick, Cassie Nollmeyer
Men’s Triple Jump
Saturday, 1 pm
ISU’s Ben Allen leads the Big Sky... Allen is the only senior among the Big Sky’s top six triple jumpers... no one has hit the provisional mark.
MSU Entries: Jesse Hanna
Women’s Triple Jump
Saturday, 3:15 pm
There are no seniors among the league’s top 10 triple jumpers... MSU’s Kelsey Kirkpatrick and Erin Jones are ranked in the top five.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones, Kelsey Kirkpatrick, Cassie Nollmeyer
Men’s High Jump
Saturday, 3:30 pm
Montana’s Dan Casey and Jas Gill are tied at the top of the league... MSU’s Brad Benjamin is the only Bobcat entered.
MSU Entries: none
Women’s High Jump
Friday, 6 pm
MSU’s Erin Jones is seeded third... last year’s top two finishers, Lanette Noble of Weber and Lisa Gunderson of PSU, are seeded first and second... Lanette Noble is ranked 17th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Amy Jones, Erin Jones,
Men’s Pole Vault
Friday, 5:25 pm
Two of last year’s top three finishers (Ben Allen and Paul Litchfield, ISU) return... Litchfield is a two-time all-conference choice, and is the league’s only provisional qualifier so far this year... Litchfield is ranked 11th nationally.
MSU Entries: Brad Benjamin, Shane Booth, Ed Keefe, Thomas Seely
Women’s Pole Vault
Saturday, 1 pm
MSU’s Michelle Hodge is the defending champion... Hodge is the only athlete in the league within six inches of the provisional mark of 12-9.5.
MSU Entries: Michelle Hodge, Cassie Nollmeyer
Heptathlon
Friday, 9 am/Saturday, 9 am
Four Big Sky athletes have provisionally qualified... Adam Matthews if ISU is ranked 16th in the nation, Weber’s Wiley King is 19th, Andrew Levin of UM is 21st, and Paul Litchfield of ISU is 24th... Andrew Levin of Montana is 21st nationally, and ISU’s Paul Litchfield is 24th in the nation.
MSU Entries: Brad Benjamin, Jim Evans, Steven Hodge
Pentathlon
Friday, 9:30 am
Erin Jones is ranked 13th in the nation, is the only Big Sky athlete to have hit the provisional qualifying mark, and leads the league by over 500 points.
MSU Entries: Erin Jones
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