Back to Austin

Sorry for the long break between posts.  Struggling a bit with my blog service, but seems to be back up and running again.  The picture above is the crowd at our home meet which was awesome.  Here is a quick recap of what you missed.

At the Pac-12 Championships we finished 11th led by Amanda Mergaert's fourth place finish in the 1500 meter race.  She was only .7 from winning in an outstanding race.  Rebekah Winterton was sixth in the 10K.  Rosalie Waller and Andrea Chavez were sixth and seventh in the 800 meter final.  Destanae Howerton Davis took eighth in the discus as well.  We had several other top ten finishes.  I thought the effort was there, but I know we were disappointed not to score in a few more events and push our point total over what we scored a year ago.

The final qualifiers for the NCAA Preliminary rounds were announced earlier this week.  We were fortunate to have 10 athletes qualify in seven events:

Seniors
Amanda Mergaert:  800/1500 (will only run 1500m)
Steph Jolley:  400H
Klaudia Rokossa: Pole Vault
Anneli Stahl:  Hammer

Juniors
Rosalie Waller: 800
Destanae Howerton Davis:  Discus

Sophmores
Ali Eisenbeiss: 800
Susannah Hurst: 10K
Rebekah Winterton: 10K
Aoife Hickey: Hammer

Congrats to these gals for advancing to the Preliminary round held in Austin, TX this coming Thurs-Sat.  The top 12 in each event will move on to the NCAA Finals held June 6-9 in Eugene, OR.

Busy, busy

It's been a busy couple of weeks with meets in LA (Mt Sac Relays and Long Beach St Relays) and Des Moines (Drake Relays and Robison Invitational).  We also had the Senior Banquet in between.  Lots of great performances and a celebratory evening mixed in.  We won two awards at the Senior Banquet with Candus Ford winning the top female academic award and Lauren McKay picking up the Community Service award for all of her efforts outside of the track and classroom.  Well deserved to say the least!

This is final exam week and we have a final tune up meet at Weber State tonight with a few athletes.  Followed by graduation this weekend for our 12 seniors.  Next week we will put our full focus on the Pac-12 Championship meet which starts on May 11th at USC.  Be sure to watch my weekly press conference for more information about our results from this past weekend which included two school records and two third place finishes at Drake.

Coach Bockman has also set up an instagram page.  Search UtahTrack to find those pictures.