2016 Women's Track and Field Roster

Loren Orr
Paul Merca
Loren Orr

Jalen Tims

  • Class Senior
  • Highschool Cleveland
  • Hometown Portland, OR

Biography

SPU: Two-year letterwinner. ... USTFCCCA All-American in 4x400 relay (2016). ... All-GNAC indoor 4x400 relay (2015) and 400 meters (2016). ... USTFCCCA All-West Region indoor 4x400 relay (2015, 2016) and 400 meters (2016). ... All-GNAC outdoor 400 hurdles (2015). ... USTFCCCA All-West Region outdoor 400, 4x400 relay (2016).

Senior (2016): INDOOR   Led off the 3rd-place 4x400 relay that clocked a school-record 3:42.44 at NCAA Division II nationals, earning her first All-American honor. ... Placed 17th in the 400 meters at nationals in 56.79. ... Earned a place in the NCAA 400 with a PR and provisional qualifying time of 55.21 to finish second behind teammate Jahzelle Ambus at GNAC. That was a whopping two-second drop from her previous PR of 57.37, set in the previous day's preliminaries. ... Led off the 2nd-place 4x400 relay at GNAC, followed by Lynelle Decker, Cheryl Hong,and Jahzelle Ambus -- the same group that would run in the same order at nationals. They came across in an NCAA provisional time of 3:46.40, essentially locking up a berth. ... Placed 8th in the GNAC 200 in 25.68. Set a PR of 25.49 in the prelims. ... Had not run the 200 indoors prior to this season. After initial time of 25.89 on Jan. 30 at the UW Invitational, dropped to 25.64, 25.55, and 25.49. ... Also had three consecutive PRs in the 400, starting with her first sub-58 on Feb. 5 at the Track Town USA High-Performance meet in her hometown of Portland. Went 57.68, followed by her 57.37 and 55.21 at GNAC. ... Participated in six meets.  OUTDOOR   Broke the school record in the 400 hurdles with a 1:00.06 on April 16 at the Beach Invitational. The old mark of 1:00.10 had stood since Jenny Vale set it in 1993. Tims broke in the 1:00s for the first time the previous day at the Bryan Clay Invitational when she clocked 1:00.87. All five of her 400 hurdles races were NCAA provisional qualifying times, starting with the 1;01.30 she ran on March 19 at the Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open. ... Also tried some different races throughout the season, doing the 100, 200, 400, and 100 hurdles. ... Did not participate at GNAC after injuring her hamstring on May 11, just two days before the meet. ... Still made it to NCAAs as the No. 10 seed, and traveled to Florida for the meet, but struggled during warm-ups and scratched out of the race.

Junior (2015): INDOOR  Ran the third leg on the victorious 4x400 relay at the GNAC Championships, combining with Jahzelle Ambus, Tasia Baldwin, and Jasmine Johnson for a final time of 3:50.68, good for a spot on the NCAA provisional qualifying list. ... Placed 6th in the 400 at GNAC in 58.56, one day after qualifying for the finals with an indoor personal-best of 58.18 in the preliminaries. ... Ran in just one regular-season meet, dong the 400 at the UW Indoor Open on Feb. 15.  OUTDOOR  Placed 3rd in the 400 hurdles at GNAC in 1:04.41. ... Ran third leg on the 2nd-place GNAC 4x400 relay. ... Competed in five meets, exclusively in the 400 hurdles and on the 4x4.

Lane Community College (sophomore, 2014): Posted outdoor PRs of 58.62 in the 400 and 1:04.20 in the 400 hurdles.

Clackamas Community College (freshman, 2012): Posted outdoor PR of 12.85 in the 100 and 26.19 in the 200. ... Posted indoor PRs of 27.32 in the 200 and 1:00.48 in the 400.

Cleveland High School (Portland): Posted PRs of 2:36.00 in the 800 and 13-5 in the long jump as a junior in 2010, 13.02 in the 100 in 2009, and 25.75 in the 200 and 58.45 in the 400 in 2008. ... Placed 13th in the 100, anchored the 7th-place 4x100 relay, and ran the third leg on the 9th-place 4x400 relay at the Oregon 5A state meet in 2010. ... Placed 9th in the 200, 7th in the 400, and anchored the 8th-place 4x400 relay at state in 2009. ... Placed 5th in the 200, 3rd in the 400, anchored the 5th-place 4x100 relay and the 3rd-place 4x400 relay at state as a freshman in 2008. ... Won the district titles in both sprint races with her respective PR times of 25.75 and 58.45, and helped the 4x100 win the district title that year, as well.


INDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
200: 
   25.49 (2/19/2016
400:     55.21 (2/20/2016)


OUTDOOR PERSONAL BESTS
100:
                   12.34 (4/30/2016)
200:                    24.98 (4/23/2016)
400:                    58.91 (3/26/2016)
100 hurdles:       15.17 (4/23/2016)
400 hurdles:     1:00.06 (school record, 4/16/2016)



CAREER RESULTS