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PORTLAND PILOTS at
Meet: Oregon Preview
Date: Sunday, March 18
Location: Eugene, Ore.
Facility: Hayward Field
Quick Hits...
• Portland continues its outdoor season on Sunday at the Oregon Preview in Eugene.
• The UW Final Qualifier is the Pilots last stop before next weekend’s NCAA Indoor Championships.
• Freshman Katherine Maus won the Long Jump and Triple Jump competitions in her first career outing at the Linfield Icebreaker in the last meet.
• Alfred Kipchumba won the men’s 5000m run with a time of 14:17.58 while the Pilots women’s team continued its season-long assault on program records in the final indoor meet of the season at UW Final Qualifier.
For the Record...
• Portland’s been busy reordering the program’s top ten results.
• The women have set 13 new marks spanning the 800m, 3000m, 5000m, and mile events.
• This year’s women’s roster features seven of the top 10 marks in the 5000m, with two athletes appearing twice on the list.
• Jarred Basset ran a 8:05.36 for the second fastest 3000m indoor time in school history.
• The women’s side saw four athletes post new top ten times in the 5000m run at the UW Final Qualifier, led by Merel Van Steenbergen’s 17:04.87 (fourth best).
