Multiple Personal Bests Stand Out in Bobcat Track and Field’s California Finale

Saturday, April 15

Long Beach, CA

All Day

Montana State University

Beach Invitational

Cameron Carroll

Photo by: Kelly Gorham

Multiple Personal Bests Stand Out in Bobcat Track and Field’s California Finale

4/15/2017 8:57:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

Beach Invite Results Mt. SAC Relays Results

Four Bobcats earned lifetime bests as Montana State completes its run through California at several nationally-recognized meet

By: Andrew Pedersen

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Several Bobcats achieved personal-best marks to conclude Montana State track and field's four-day swing in California Saturday, April 15, at Jack Rose Track in the Beach Invitational.

Freshman McKenna Ramsay notched two lifetime bests on the women's side. Ramsay finished 13th overall in the 400-meter run with a time of 55.19 seconds. That mark tied her top collegiate mark during the indoor season and put her eighth in program history on the MSU all-time outdoor list. She also crossed the line in the 200 in 24.98 to place 31st out of 106 runners.

Junior Amanda Jaynes had the Bobcats' top showing of the day by taking third in the 400 hurdles with a time of 59.65. That mark topped her previous personal best by .15 seconds.

Alex Lewis had MSU's top performance for the men's team's Saturday appearance at the Beach Invitational.

The junior toppled his previous lifetime best in the long jump by leaping 24-01.75 (7.36m) for ninth overall. The mark shot him up the program all-time chart to third in the event.

Freshman Cameron Carroll earned a 19th-place finish in the men's 800 with the top time of his collegiate career (1:52.06). His time was just two one-hundredths of a second behind fellow Bobcat Samuel Bloom's mark that the sophomore set just a day ago, but still moved him to ninth in school history in the 800.

Bloom also raced in the men's 800 and finished 48th overall with a time of 1:53.87.

Senior Christie Schiel returned to competition a day after setting a school record in the 800 and finished 12th in the event with a time of 2:08.63.

Men's sprinters Jadin Casey and Mitch Horning raced in two events apiece. Casey participated in the 200 and 400, earning his best finish of 20th in the 400 by crossing the line in 49.05. Horning took part in the 100 and 200 with his best showing of 36th coming in the 200 (22.26).

Junior Kyle Douglass led the men's throwers by competing in the discus in the Beach Invitational and at the Mt. SAC Relays in Torrance later in the day. Douglass finished seventh in the Discus Elite Invitational at the relays with a throw of 183-07 (55.82). Alec Nehring wrapped up meet action at the Beach Invite by taking 35th in the shot put, while Calvin Root took 43rd and 45th in the shot put and discus, respectively.

The Bobcat track and field teams return to the Treasure State for their final three meets of the regular season. Montana State is set to compete in Missoula on April 22 and April 29, then hosts Senior Day at the Bobcat Track and Field Complex in Bozeman with the Tom Gage Classic taking place on Friday, May 5.