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WAC ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
MEN
Grand Canyon's Ryan Girk and Scott Marshall have been named Western Athletic Conference Men's Track & Field Athletes of the Week, respectively, for Jan. 16-22.
Girk, a senior from Phoenix, ran a time of 6.83 in the 60-meter event at the MLK Jr. Invitational this past weekend. His time placed him in sixth out of 35 competitors and put him at the top of the WAC leaderboard for the season. Girk then went to run a 21.81 in the 200-meter dash for 12th place out of 65 competitors. He is now placed in third in the WAC for the time being.
Marshall, a senior from Tempe, Ariz., broke his own Grand Canyon school record in the pole vault event with a mark of 5.48 meters. His mark lands him in the automatic qualifying realm for the NCAA Indoor Championships if he stays in the Top-16 marks in the country. He is currently ranked seventh in the country and first in the WAC.
Other track nominee: Chicago State's Ricordo McKenzie posted a time of 6.94 in the 60-meter dash which was good enough for a second place finish against 22 competitors.
Other field nominee: Chicago State's Landis Houston recorded a season-best leap of 43-2.25 in the triple jump for a fifth-place finish.
WOMEN
NM State's Tanisha Scott and Grand Canyon's Kayla Finnegan have been named Western Athletic Conference Women's Track & Field Athletes of the Week, respectively, for Jan. 16-22.
Scott, a senior from Seattle, set a personal record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.70 seconds this past weekend in the MLK Jr. Invitational. Her time placed her ninth out of 75 competitors and puts her third in the WAC for the season thus far. Scott then placed 43rd out of 106 competitors in the 200-meter dash with a time of 25.54. She is also ranked third in the WAC in the 200-meter event. Scott also helped her 4x400 relay team run a WAC third best time of 3:59.37.
Finnegan, a fifth year senior from Moorelane, Okla., crushed the top mark in the WAC in the long jump by 15.25 inches in the MLK Jr. Invitational this past weekend. She jumped 5.92 meters on her very first jump of the meet to place ninth out of 69 competitors and 52nd nationally.
Other track nominees: Chicago State's Asia Johnson placed second in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.01 and later finished sixth in the 60-meter dash when she recorded a time of 7.99… CSU Bakersfield's Ariana Mariscal placed third in the 800-meter race with a time of 2:20.86 and helped her 4x400 relay team finish with a time of 4:12.00… Grand Canyon's Shanice Lewis recorded a WAC second-best time of 8.76 in the 60-meter hurdles.
Other field nominees: CSU Bakersfield's Julianne Finch won the pole vault event out of seven competitors with a mark of 11-11.75… NM State's Keyarha Wilson placed second out of 29 competitors in the high jump with a mark of 1.71, which also ranks her 67th nationally.