Lobos Wrap Up Competition at UNM Team Open
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – New Mexico Track & Field concluded Day Two of competition at the UNM Team Open Saturday, with six more PR’s and four more all-time Top 10 performances.
Lou-Anne Pouzancre Hoyer followed up the fifth-fastest 200m in history on Friday with the fourth-fastest 400m, Julia Kellner posted the eighth-best triple jump on the UNM indoor list and Dylan Burrows ran the seventh-fastest indoor 800m to highlight the day’s events — in total on the weekend, UNM athletes produced 21 new PR’s and 11 new Top-10 marks while racking up 31 Top-10 finishes in their respective events.
UNM’s home stretch at the Albuquerque Convention Center continues next week at the New Mexico Collegiate Classic Feb. 2-3. Next weekend’s events – as well as all of UNM’s collegiate home meets this season – will be exclusively live streamed via FloTrack, with live results available via GoLobos.com/TrackResults.
THE ACTION
In the women’s “A” pole vault, Maja Gebauer cleared 3.85 but scratched out at the 4.00m mark, placing eighth overall.
Up next, Jacob Cavanaugh finished fifth in the second heat of the 60m hurdles with an 8.48 time that moved the true freshman into the No. 8 spot on the event’s all-time list.
In the women’s triple jump, Julia Kellner posted the eighth-best indoor mark in program history (12.38m, 40′ 7½”) to finish fourth overall and Zennia Gonzalez (11.35m, 37′ 3″) picked up her second PR of the meet en route to a 15th-place finish. On the men’s side, Fabian Biondina finished eighth in his first triple jump action of the season with a 14.43m (47′ 4¼”) mark.
Victor Akhalu led three Lobos in the men’s 60m dash, finishing fourth overall with a 6.82 time – only three hundredths of a second behind overall winner Nathaniel Luna of Lubbock Christian (6.79). Elijah Jefferson (7.02) and Cavanaugh (7.09) finished 30th and 41st, respectively.
Lauren Fowler led the way on the women’s side with a seventh-place overall finish, winning Heat One with a 7.70 time ahead of Hanna Kiess (35th, 7.98), Mikyla Harkley (41st, 8.03), Ophelia Pulley (45th, 8.07), Carlotta Duenninger (57th, 8.40), Kora Pettengill (60th, 8.50) and Malia Dumlao (62nd, 8.63). Kiess shaved .11 seconds off her debut time last weekend for UNM’s first PR of the day.
In the women’s mile, Semira Mebrahtu put down a huge raw PR (4:57.86) that converts to a 4:51.37 time en route to a fourth-place overall finish ahead of Maleah Goldie (5:19.76), who also set a new personal best with her converted time.
A pair of Lobo newcomers – Gabriella K. Szabo and Harriet Tuson – finished second (2:09.69) and fifth (2:12.53) in the women’s invitational 800m, with Szabo shaving .97 seconds off her debut time from last weekend (2:10.66) after conversions. Szabo’s time would rank No. 48 on the most recent NCAA D-I Qualifying list.
Lou-Anne Pouzancre Hoyer followed up her big PR in the 200m on Friday night with another improvement in the women’s invitational 400m, finishing with a converted 54.23 that earned her the No. 4 spot on the UNM all-time list and would rank No. 30 on the indoor qualifying list.
Dylan Burrows finished second overall in the men’s 800m, crossing the finish line with a 1:49.70 time that converts to a 1:49.09 – that time moved him into the No. 7 spot on the all-time list and would put him at 16th on the indoor list. Osaze Williams added another new PR with a 1:51.57 converted time while finishing eighth.
In the final action of the day for UNM, a Lobo men’s 4x400m contingent comprised of Brodie Brodie Young, Tim Harris, Levente Soos and Jacob Cavanaugh finished in 3:15.41, good for eighth overall. The women’s relay – made up of Pouzancre Hoyer, Szabo, Kiess and Analisa Ibarra – finished 11th overall with a 3:47.76 time.