Thomas Gets Season-Opening Mark in PV on Day One at Bobcat Invitational
SAN MARCOS, Texas — New Mexico Track & Field’s lone competitor on Wednesday at the Bobcat Invitational, Isabel Thomas picked up her first mark of the outdoor season in the women’s “B” Pole Vault (3.58m) to finish 12th overall.
In her outdoor debut, Thomas finished shy of her indoor personal best (3.83m) but got the all-important first mark after scratching out at the UNM Spring Invitational last Saturday. The rest of UNM’s vaulters will compete in the “A” sections tomorrow starting at 1 p.m., with Kiara Quezada-Arzate and Maja Gebauer competing on the women’s side and freshman Kyle Hatler on the men’s side.
Tomorrow is the busiest day of competition for the Lobos, who will compete at four different meets in two different states. Follow all the live results and streaming options for this weekend’s action in one place at GoLobos.com/TrackResults.
TOMORROW’S SCHEDULE
Friday’s competition takes place for over 12 hours across all four meets, beginning with the men’s 4x100m relay (Gal Arad, Victor Akhalu, Jose Cornejo, Elijah Williams) and the women’s long jump (Elizabeth White, Lauren Fowler) both getting underway at 8 a.m. over in Austin at the Texas Relays (All times MT).
Following pole vault action that gets started in San Marcos at 1 p.m. MT, 400m hurdles competition featuring Annamaria Leszczynska on the women’s side and Levente Soos, Jacob Cavanaugh and Tim Harris on the men’s side are up next at 4 and 4:40 p.m. before the final competition of the day at TSU.
In Palo Alto, seven heats of men’s and women’s 1500m action will run from roughly 1:30 p.m. until Samuel Field closes things out in the invitational section at 8:25 p.m., with Sophia McDonnell making her steeplechase season debut in the second section at 6:24 p.m. Simultaneously, four other Lobos — Kane Shields, Dylan Burrows, Harriet Tuson and Hanna Bruckmayer — will be competing in alternating men’s and women’s 1500m heats across the bay at San Francisco State that get going at 2:35 p.m.
Up next at Stanford, MW Indoor 5,000m Champion Mercy Kirarei will compete in her first collegiate outdoor 5K in the second-fastest heat at 8:56 p.m. before Hanna Bruckmayer and Nicola Jansen both take on their first collegiate 10,000m race in the invitational section. Night One at Stanford is set to wrap up close to midnight, with three Lobo men — Vincent Chirchir, Evans Kiplagat, Thomas Termote — closing things out in the fastest 10,000m race of the night.