UC Irvine Hosts Big West Championships This Weekend
May 13, 2009
Men's Heat Sheets / Women's Heat Sheets
IRVINE, Calif. --- The UC Irvine track and field teams host the 2009 Big West Conference Championships Friday and Saturday (May 15-16) at Anteater Stadium.
The event returns to the UCI campus for the first time since 2005. Cal State Northridge has been the meet host the past three seasons.
Field events begin at 11:00 a.m. and the track events at 4:00 p.m. each day.
Long Beach State won last year's men's team title and Northridge has captured the last three women's crowns.
Four UCI competitors lead the Big West in their events entering the conference meet.
Freshman Charles Jock tops the 800-meter list with a time of 1:48.73 recorded at the Asics/Steve Scott Invitational May 3. That time ranks third all-time at UCI.
Junior Matt Lahti is first in the hammer throw with a mark of 203-0 at the Big West Challenge Cup Apr. 10. That mark is also third on the Anteater career list.
Junior Lauren Collins leads the league in the high jump with a school-record mark of 6-0 set at the season-opening All-UC Meet at UCI.
Junior Alisha Misiaita ranks No. 1 in the Big West in the shot put with a school-record mark of 51-9 ¾ that she recorded at the Cal/Nevada Championships at UCLA's Drake Stadium Mar. 29.
All four competitors have qualified for the NCAA West Regional at Eugene, Ore., May 29-30.
Other regional qualifiers from UCI are junior Colin Hacker in the 1500 meters (3:47.70), senior Julian Eison in the high jump (7-0 ½), and seniors Lauren Chramosta (10:40.7) and Kendall Bruton (10:44.75) in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
Lauren Collins qualified for the NCAA Championships in the heptathlon with a school-record total of 5,549 points set at the Northridge Spring Break Open Mar. 19-20.
The national meet is at Fayetteville, Ark., June 10-13.
HACKER NAMED BIG WEST ATHLETE OF WEEK: Colin Hacker was named the Big West Conference Athlete of the Week in men's track after recording his regional-qualifying time of 3:47.70 in the 1500 meters at the Occidental College Invitational last Saturday.
This is the ninth time that a UCI student-athlete has received the honor this season.
