{"id":596,"date":"2015-01-23T14:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=596"},"modified":"2015-01-23T14:22:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T22:22:34","slug":"records-fall-as-track-starts-indoor-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/records-fall-as-track-starts-indoor-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Records fall as track starts indoor season"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By GUY PERRIN\r\n Freelancer<\/pre>\n<p>The men and women of the Western Oregon track team showed just how hard they\u2019ve been working during the offseason in what was a historic day at Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle for the teams\u2019 opening meet of the year, the UW Indoor Preview.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the afternoon for the men was when the 4&#215;800 meter relay team comprised of Brady Beagley, Josh Hanna, Sam Naffziger and Josh Dempsey put together a school-record breaking time of 7:54.22 en route to a 5th place finish.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Cody Warner posted the second fastest time in school history in the 60-meter dash, running it in 6.96 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>On the women\u2019s side, Stephanie Stuckey set a school record herself, completing the 1,000-meter run in 3:02.96, narrowly beating the previous record by 1 second, to take home 16th place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt great. It was one of the first good races that I\u2019ve had in a long time. I didn\u2019t even know what the record was because I didn\u2019t want to worry about time. This season, I\u2019m all about having fun and running well. That race was a great example of how important that is,\u201d Stuckey said.<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to seeing my teammates compete and represent Western. Being a student athlete is hard. Heck, being a student is hard. It\u2019s all about doing what you love. If you don\u2019t love it, it gets really hard to keep going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 600-meter run, Suzanne Van De Grift finished in 1:41.14, not only cracking the top 10 all time at WOU, but also finishing 4th amongst non-Division 1 or club runners.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big day for the throwers, as Emmi Collier and Alex Green finished 11th and 15th, respectively. Green\u2019s throw of 12.45 meters was a personal best and with that, she joins Collier in the all-time top 10 for women\u2019s indoor shot put.<\/p>\n<p>The Wolves will take a week off before they look to build on their performance Jan. 30, at the Husky Invite in Seattle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By GUY PERRIN Freelancer The men and women of the Western Oregon track team showed just how hard they\u2019ve been working during the offseason in what was a historic day at Dempsey Indoor Facility in Seattle for the teams\u2019 opening meet of the year, the UW Indoor Preview. The highlight of the afternoon for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":190,"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-596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}