Event-by-event results

STANFORD, Calif. – The meet attracts some of the best in the country. And Brittany Aanstad proved she belongs with them.

The Seattle Pacific junior threw the javelin 140 feet even (42.67 meters) to take third place in that event on Friday at the Stanford Invitational.

Aanstad (Lake Stevens, Wash./Lake Stevens HS), coming off a fourth-place All-American finish at lastyear's NCAA Division II nationals, trailed only two Division I competitors in Friday's elite-level Invitational flight of the jav. Roxi Grizzle of Nebraska won with a toss of 150 feet, 5 inches (45.85 meters), and Stanford's Eda Karesin was second at 149-9 (45.64 meters).

Among those Aanstad topped on Friday was Western Oregon sophomore Amanda Schumaker. The current Great Northwest Athletic Conference leader had a top throw of 132-3 (40.31 meters) to finish sixth. Schumaker ranks second in all of NCAA Division II at 145-10 (44.45). Aanstad is No. 4 in the country with a season best of 143-5 (43.71).

Fellow Falcon javelin thrower Carly Andrews (Issaquah, Wash./Issaquah HS) also came up with a big day – and a third-place finish in the Collegiate flight. Andrews let loose with a toss of 137 feet, 2 inches (41.81 meters). That smashed her previous career best of 133-9, which she set just last week at the Oregon Preview in Eugene.

Andrews now has PR'd in each of her first three meets. Her career best coming into the season was 132-5 (40.36).

The distances by Aanstad and Andrews both were far enough for NCAA provisional qualifying.

Aanstad later tied for fifth in her flight and tied for 18th overall in the high jump at 5-1¼ (1.56 meters).

SPU junior Terra Schumacher (Sublimity, Ore.) set a personal-best time in the 100-meter hurdles with a 14.80 that was a full half-second better than her previous best. That put her 30th overall and elevated her from the GNAC provisional to the GNAC automatic qualifying list.

Also posting personal bests and making the move up to conference automatic were freshman sprinters Kishia Mitchell and BryAnne Wochnick in the 400 meters. Mitchell (Puyallup, Wash./Rogers HS) was 29th overall in 58.06 seconds, more than a full second better than her previous best of 59.03 set on March 12 at the Pacific Lutheran Invitational.

Wochnick (Portland, Ore.) was 33rd overall in 58.88, beating her previous best of 59.07 from last Saturday at the Oregon Preview. Wochnick needed to beat that time by just six hundredths of a second to get onto the GNAC automatic qualifying list, and she did so with room to spare.

Sophomore Emily Quatier (Portland, Ore.) finished right between Mitchell and Wochnick, placing 31st in 58.50.

Sophomore Trinna Miranda (Tigard, Ore.) leaped a season-best 17 feet, 4¼ inches (5.29 meters) for ninth place in the Collegiate flight of the long jump. Miranda easily beat her previous season long effort of 16-8. She was one of four jumpers who had the seventh-farthest mark on Friday. Two others officially finished ahead of her on the tiebreaker.

Seattle Pacific had just two men in action on Friday.

Ryan Endresen placed third in his heat and 18th overall in the 400-meter hurdles. Endresen posted a time of 55.43, off a bit from his season-best of 54.89 from last week's performance at the Oregon Preview in Eugene.

Freshman Dusty Duncan (Lynden, Wash./Lynden HS) ran 32nd in the 400 meters in 50.53 seconds.

The meet concludes on Saturday. On the women's side, Mitchell will race in the 200 meters, freshman McKayla Fricker (Canby, Ore.) goes in the 800, and Schumacher will be in the pole vault, along with senior Melissa Peaslee (Fox Island, Wash./Gig Harbor HS).

Sophomore Nate Seely (Lynden, Wash./Lynden HS) will run in the 800 for the Falcon men.

Another group of SPU athletes will be in the Club Northwest Spring Break Open at Husky Stadium starting at 10 a.m. on Saturday.


NCAA WOMEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
Stanford Invitational
Friday, March 25, 2011
Cobb Track and Angell Field/Stanford, Calif.

400 – 1, Shelise Williams (Arkansas) 52.50. SPU placers – 29, Kishia Mitchell 58.06!; 31, Emily Quatier 58.50!; 33, BryAnne Wochnick 58.88!.
100 hurdles preliminaries – 1, Chelsea Carrier (W. Virginia) 13.27. SPU placer – 30, Terra Schumacher 14.80!.
High jump – 1, Jessica Sargeson (Cal Poly) 5-5 ¼ / 1.66m. SPU placer – T18, Brittany Aanstad 5-1 ¼ / 1.56m*.
Long jump (Collegiate) – 1, Amy Skofstad (Oregon) 18-5 ¾ / 5.63m. SPU placer – 9, Trinna Miranda 17-4 ¼ / 5.29m*
Javelin (Invitational) – 1, Roxi Grizzle (Nebraska) 150-5 / 40.85m. SPU placer – 3, Brittany Aanstad 140-0 / 42.67m#.
Javelin (Collegiate) – 1, Amber Freeman (Brigham Young) 151-2 / 46.09m. SPU placer – 3, Carly Andrews 137-2 / 41.81m#.

# NCAA provisional qualifying
! GNAC automatic qualifying
*GNAC provisional qualifying


NCAA MEN'S TRACK AND FIELD
Stanford Invitational
Friday, March 25, 2011
Cobb Track and Angell Field/Stanford, Calif.

400 – 1, Brad Wall (E. Washington) 47.88. SPU placer – 32, Dusty Duncan 50.53.*
400 hurdles – 1, J Hopkins (Washington St.) 52.25. SPU placer – 18, Ryan Endresen 55.43!.

! GNAC automatic qualifying
*GNAC provisional qualifying