Meet: Linfield IceBreaker
Dates: Friday March 1, 2019
Location: McMinnville, Ore
Stadium: Linfield Erik Anderson Memorial Stadium
Live Stats: golinfieldwildcats.com
Video: None
 
Meet: Willamette Opener
Dates: Saturday March 2, 2019
Location: Salem, Ore.
Stadium: McCulloch Stadium
Live Stats: wubearcats.com
Video: None
 
LAST MEET: MPSF CHAMPIONSHIPS/ NCAA INDOOR QUALIFYING TIMES
• Rawlings placed third overall on the final day of the MPSF Championships in the women's mile to record a new personal record of 4:36.00, besting her previous school record time.
• Richardson (9:21.97) finished 16th overall in the women's 5000m to move up to third all-time in the UP records, followed by Howard who placed 23rd for a 9th all-time finish
• At the conclusion of the MPSF Championships, Portland waited to hear back from the NCAA committee on accepted student-athletes to the 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships. Lauren LaRocco and Taryn Rawlings were accepted to represent Portland in the 5000m and mile, respectively. This marks the first time in UP history that the women's track and field team has sent more than one Pilot to the Indoor Championships.
 
THIS WEEKEND: LINFIELD ICEBREAKER/WILLAMETTER OPENER
• The Portland Pilots men's and women's outdoor track and field teams will open the 2019 this weekend at the Linfield IceBreaker and Willamette Opener.
• The Portland men will first compete on Friday at the Linfield Icebreaker. Andrew Jenck and Cole Shugart will be the only Pilots racing that evening, featured in the 10,000m.
• The majority of Pilots will compete on Saturday at the Willamette Opener. There will be student-athletes competing in both long and short distance events.
 
THIS SEASON
• Redshirt seniors LaRocco and Rawlings opened the Indoor track and field season in December with both Pilots competing in the Indoor 5000m.
• LaRocco (15:33.20) broke the UP 5000m Indoor school record, which she had previously held, by 17 seconds.
• Rawlings jumped into to the all-time records at third all-time.
• Orndorf (3:59.94) produced a historic race at the UW Indoor Preview, becoming the first Pilot in UP history to run a sub-four minute mile. He surpassed Portland alum Ryan Poland (4:01.28) who last set the record for the indoor mile in 2014.
• The Pilots produced several record book worthy performances at the UW Invite, with redshirt Rawlings highlighting the day on the women's side, with a new UP indoor mile record, besting her previous time of 4:40.78 to 4:36.92.
 • Orndorf again posted an incredible performance to move up to second all-time in the indoor 3000m, finishing sixth in his heat with a time of 7:52.33.
• Junior Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse was right behind him in the fastest heat of the 3000m, crossing the line ninth overall in 7:55.05. Roudolff-Levisse records a new PR in the indoor 3000m, but remains at fourth all-time in the UP records.
 • Redshirt junior Caleb Webb also ran an exceptional 3000m, winning his heat, posting a new personal best of 8:04.73, and breaking into the indoor records at ninth all-time.
• Sophomore Evert Silva came close to winning the heat, for a second-place finish. Silva also posted a new personal best of 8:04.91 to clinch the 10th spot on the UP all-time records list.
• In the women's 3000m, Richardson led the women with a second-place finish in her heat to break into the women's 3000m records at eighth all-time.
• Taryn Rawlings moved up to second all-time in the UP indoor records at the Husky Invite, with a new 3000m personal record of 9:20.05.
• In the women's 5000m, junior Aoibhe Richardson moved up to fourth all-time in the UP record books with a new personal best of 16.16.98.
• Senior Michael Somers led Portland with an impressive 11th place overall finish and a time of 13:47.87, breaking into the indoor records at second all-time.
 
 
LAST SEASON
• Five Pilots earned All-American Honors at the 2018 NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships.
• Then-redshirt freshman Riley Osen finished eighth among an elite field in the final race of the 3000m steeplechase at Historic Hayward Field, garnering the first All-American (first team) honors of  his career.
• Then-junior Taryn Rawlings finished sixth in the women's 1500m final to conclude the final day of the 2018 Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Rawlings crossed the finish line at 4:11.37 to break her UP school record, again, and claim first-team All-American honors with her podium finish.
• Then-junior Lauren LaRocco finished 15th overall in the 10,000m final, marking her fifth All-American honor (honorable mention) of her career.
• Then-Senior Matt Welch and then-sophomore Emmanuel Roudolff-Levisse also competed in a strong 10,000m final, with Welch and Roudolff-Levisse holding strong through a challenging race to finish 17th and 20th, respectively. Both Pilots ended the meet by earning All-American honorable mention.

Linfield IceBreaker Schedule of Events (TENTATIVE)
Friday: March 1
8:00 PM - Men's 10,000m Andrew Jenck, Cole Shugart

Willamette Open Schedule of Events (TENTATIVE)
Saturday: March 2

11:00 AM - Women's 1500m Emily Bechen, Ellee Becker, Sofia Castiglioni, Ellie Misuraca, Alexandra Newsom, Grace Oswin, Emily Peterson, Grace Ritchie
11:10 AM - Men's 1500m Peter Allegre, Gabriel Haughey, John Kavulich, Reuben Kiprono, Jake Knoblich, Aaron Letcher, Tristan Peloquin, Malcolm Roux, Thomas Salas, Matt Schumann, Evert Silva, Michael Teran-Solono, Cameron Thompson, Caleb Webb
11:30 AM - Women's High Jump Maya Murphy-Cook
11:45 PM - Men's 5000m Andrew Jenck, Devin Wulff
12:40 PM - Women's 100m Sophia Biondi, Catlin Kirk, Isabel Leonard, Maya Murphy-Cook
1:00 PM - Women's 400m Caoline Dolan, Michal Jones, Samantha Walsh
1:15PM - Men's 800m Malcolm Roux
1:35 PM - Men's 200m Jack Welch
1:30 PM - Women's 200m Michal Jones, Catlin Kirk, Maya Murphy-Cook