ELLENSBURG, Wash. – Day one of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference Championships featured standout performances from the Seattle Pacific University track & field teams, including conference championships for
Maya Ewing and
Tawaf Aboudou.
DAY ONE
- Maya Ewing claimed the top spot in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 10:51.23.
- Tawaf Aboudou won the men's long jump with a leap of 24-06.25.
- Anna Purssian finished fourth in the conference in the 10,000-meter run with a time of 38:36.46.
- Avery Erickson finished sixth in the steeple chase with a time of 9:35.64.
- Lysandra Plant threw the javelin 128-06, finishing seventh in the conference.
- Justin Brooks had the fastest time in the 400-meter dash prelims, clocking a 47.60.
- The next-fastest time was 47.84 by Lucas Brenek of WWU.
- Justin's school record is 47.26 from the Bryan Clay Invitational.
- Aboudou clocked a 10:46 in the 100-meter dash prelims, the third fastest time of the day.
- Hannah Chang wins her 100 hurdles prelim heat in 13.93. It should be a three-way battle between her, Central's Ellie DeGroot (13.89 in her prelim heat), and UAA's Liv Heite (13.91). No one else came close (14.38 was next closest).
- DeGroot and Heite had very slight tailwinds; Hannah had a very slight headwind.
- Jada Sarrys was fifth fastest in the 200-meter prelims with a time of 24.78.
- Sarrys was seventh in the 100-meter dash prelims with a 12.05.
- Andrew Bell had a season-best 14.55 in the 110 hurdles, giving him the No. 6 seed for the finals.
- Bell entered the conference championships at 15:07.
- Robert Joshua was eighth in the 200-meter dash prelims, clocking a 21.67.
BEYOND THE RESULTS
- Ewing claimed the steeplechase title by finishing 12 seconds faster than the next-closest competitor.
- Ewing is the second Falcon to win the women's steeple (Karin Rohde 2006, '07).
- Aboudou's GNAC title in the long jump of 24-06.25 (7.47m) breaks the SPU record set by the late Steve Gough of 24-04.75 (7.43m) in 1970.
- It's his second 24-foot jump of the season (24-00.25 at Bryan Clay in April).
- He is one of just three Falcons all-time to top 24.
- Aboudou is the third Falcon to win the long jump (Peyton Harris in 2016; David Njeri in 2023).
- It's his fifth outdoor record (100, 200, and LJ), including being a part of two relay records (4x100, 4x400)
- Between the LJ (1970/56 years), the 4x100 (1968/58 years), the 4x400 (2005/21 years), the 100 (2025/1 year), and the 200 (2025/1 year), he has had a hand in taking down a combined 137 years of program history.
- Aboudou also set the indoor 60 dash record three times, the indoor long jump record, and was part of the indoor record 4x400.
- Aboudou also outdid his own 100-meter dash record in Monday's prelims with a 10.46.
- It's the third time this year he has broken the SPU record.
- The record was 10.70, then went 10.66 on March 21 in Corvallis and 10.57 on this same track in Ellensburg on April 11.
UP NEXT
The Falcons finish up the GNAC Championships tomorrow at the CWU Recreation Sports Complex in Ellensburg, Wash.
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