WAC Women's Outdoor Track & Field Athletes of the Week
DENVER – California Baptist's Anett Somogyi and Grand Canyon's Madelyn Lundberg have been named Western Athletic Conference Women's Outdoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week, respectively, for March March 26 – April 2.
Somogyi, a junior from Veszprem, Hungary, ran the 10,000-meter in 34:06.91 destroying the old program record. She now holds the school record in the 3,000 and 10,000 meter. Somogyi leads the conference in the 10,000- and 5,000-meter runs.
Lundberg, a sophomore from Grand Canyon, posted the top mark in the WAC for Pole Vault this season. She jumped 4.03 meters for the third time in her career and earned gold. Lundberg ranks 41st in the nation.
Other track nominees: CSU Bakersfield's Riley Slayton took second in the 400-meter Hurdles finishing in 63.14… Dora Filipovic of Grand Canyon won the 400-meter and posted the second fastest time in the conference… NM State's La Shira Tremble ran the second fastest 100-meter time and third fastest 200-meter time in the WAC… Jennifer Zapata of UT Rio Grande Valley notched a new program record in the 3,000-meter Steeplechase crossing at 10:49.23… Utah Valley's Aisha Graham-Perez won the 800-meter in 2:14.63.
Other field nominees: Kansas City's Traci Mills earned the second-best Long Jump mark in the WAC while also posting the fourth-best 100-meter dash time… Hannah Smith of NM State took first place in the Triple Jump and posted the top mark in the conference for the Long Jump at 5.59 meters… UT Rio Grande Valley's Diamond Thomas took sixth in the discus tossing it 50.38 meters.