{"id":15676,"date":"2020-03-14T14:35:18","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T22:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2020-03-14T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T22:35:18","slug":"track-and-field-start-outdoor-season-on-the-right-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/track-and-field-start-outdoor-season-on-the-right-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"Track and field start outdoor season on the right foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><strong>Hannah Greene<\/strong>\u00a0 | Sports Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As the Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships approaches, the Wolves got an early start to their outdoor season. Two meets were held last weekend, March 6 to 7, at Willamette University and Linfield College.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Both meets met the expectations of the Wolves with multiple runners making the top 10 across several events. To start, Sawyer Heckard, a senior, ran a new personal best in the Men\u2019s 10k with a time of 32:20.83 \u2014 placing ninth overall at Linfield. Another feat included Dominic Giordano, a senior, who won the Men\u2019s 3k steeplechase with a time of 9:28.49, followed by senior Hunter Mosman with a time of 9:37.94.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the Men\u2019s Shot Put, the Wolves were able to take first and second, as well as fifth through seventh \u2014 Nick Sieber, a senior, led the pack with a throw of 47-5 feet.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Men\u2019s 800 placed well and consisted of mainly Western Oregon runners as Trey Reed, a junior, and Bryce Mefford, a first year, took first and second place with times of 2:00.59 and 2:01.90.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>First-year, Jillian Greene stole the Women\u2019s 800 and 1500 meter runs with times of 2:22.71 and 4:54.92. Another robber of two races included Bethanie Altamirano, a sophomore, who ran a time of 27.20 in the Women\u2019s 200 meter race and a 59.89 in the Women\u2019s 400 meter race \u2014 not far behind Altamirano was senior Grayson Burke with a time of 1:00.57.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Wolves have officially sparked the match and outdoor season has begun.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Next up, March 13 through 14, four Wolves head to Birmingham, Alabama, for the NCAA DII Indoor Championships where senior Derek Holdsworth, senior Max Carmona, sophomore Gabe Arce-Torres and senior Justin Crosswhite will compete in the men\u2019s distance medley relay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:hgreene18@wou.edu\">hgreene18@wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Greene\u00a0 | Sports Editor As the Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships approaches, the Wolves got an early start to their outdoor season. Two meets were held last weekend, March 6 to 7, at Willamette University and Linfield College. Both meets met the expectations of the Wolves with multiple runners making the top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}