STANFORD, Calif.-Sunday, the Utah women’s track and field squad finished its second day of competition at the Pac-12 championships.
The Utes finished in 12th place with 15 points, far behind champion USC, as the Trojans netted 170 points as Oregon finished in second with 154 points.
For the men, Oregon decisively took the crown, posting 174 points as Stanford was second with 125 points, on their home track.
The women’s 100-meter dash crown was won by USC’s Twanisha Terry in 10.96 seconds and Makenzie Dunmore of Oregon won the 200-meter dash title for the Ducks in 22.37 seconds.
Kendall Ellis of USC netted another Pac-12 title for her squad in the women’s 400, posting a time of 49.99 seconds, which is a meet record. Incidentally, Makenzie Dunmore, who placed second, also set a meet record posting a time of 50.63 seconds.
The women’s 800-meter run was won by Oregon’s Sabrina Southerland in 2:02.18, and her teammate, Jessica Hull, posted a time of 4:21.65 in the women’s 1500-meter run to win the conference title. Also in the women’s 800, Utah’s Caitie Faust and Sarah Newton finished sixth and seventh, respectively.
Stanford’s Elise Cranny won the women’s 5000-meter run in a time of 16:28.54 while the women’s 100-meter hurdles championship was taken by USC’s Chanel Brissett in a time of 12.75 seconds.
USC’s Anna Cockrell won the women’s 400-meter hurdles race in a time of 56.47 seconds.
The USC women also swept the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 relays in times of 42.85 seconds and 3:30.45 respectively. In the 4 x 400, the Utah women placed seventh, posting a time of 3:42.26.
Jessie Maduka of UCLA won the women’s triple jump crown with a leap of 44-07.00.
For the men, Oregon’s Cravon Gillespie won the 100-meter dash in a time of 10.05 seconds and Michael Norman of USC won the 200-meter dash in a time of 19.84 seconds. Norman also earned the 400-meter dash crown in a time of 44.40 seconds.
Robert Ford of USC won the men’s 800-meter run in a time of 1:49.77 while Oregon’s Sam Frakel is the men’s 1500-meter run champion in a time of 3:40.20.
Ben Saarel of Colorado (a graduate of Park City High School) won the men’s 5000-meter run in a time of 14:11.23 and Orego’s Braxton Canady won the men’s 110-meter hurdles crown in a time of 13.57 seconds.
Rai Benjamin of USC won the men’s 400-meter hurdles title in a time of 48.46 seconds and the USC men’s 4 x 100 relay squad won the crown in a time of 39.38 seconds. In the 4 x 400 relay, the Arizona Wildcats’ men took the crown in a time of 3:07.46.
In the men’s high jump, USC’s Earnie Sears took the title with a leap of 7 feet and 2-50 inches. Sander Moldau of Washington State earned the pole vault crown with a jump of 17-02.25 feet.
Damarcus Simpson of Oregon was the men’s long jump champion with a leap of 27-04 feet while California’s Tuomas Kaukolahti won the triple jump crown with a jump of 52-08.25 feet.
Finally, in the men’s javelin, UCLA’s Simon Litzell won the Pac-12 title with a toss of 244-03 feet.
