UAA's Registe Wins Record Five Events

Registe	Crofts

David Registe of Alaska Anchorage won a meet-record three individual titles to earn Most Outstanding Male Performer honors in the 2011 GNAC Track and Field Championships which were held May 13-14 at Monmouth, Ore. (PDF)

Registe swept the men's 100 meters (10.76) and 200 meters (21.69) Saturday after winning the long jump title (24-6 1/4) on Friday to set a men's meet record with 30 individual points.

Registe also set a GNAC record for career points, ending up with 82 in the three championship meets in which he competed.

He also led the Seawolves to wins in both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays in times of 42.20 and 3:17.93. He is the first athlete - male or female - to win five events (including relays) in a single conference meet.

Helen Crofts of Simon Fraser was voted the Most Outstanding Female Performer. Crofts swept the 400 in a meet-record time of 55.25 and the 1500 in a time 4:25.80.

She also ran the lead leg on SFU's 4x400 relay team that set a meet and GNAC record with a time of 3:46.17.

Other athletes to win more than one event in the meet included Micah Chelimo of Alaska Anchorage, Kishia Mitchell and Ali Worthen of Seattle Pacific and Torrie Self of Central Washington.

Chelimo added a win Saturday in the men's 5,000 meters in a meet-record time of 14:29.41 to the steeplechase title he won Friday.

Mitchell won both the women's 100 and 200 in times of 12.39 and 25.52. Meanwhile, Worthen had three individual victories to equal the GNAC record which had been accomplished on six previous occasions

She added a win in the high jump (5-5 3/4) Saturday to the long jump (18-5) title she won Friday and the heptathlon crown (4,904) she won last week.

Worthen also ran on SPU's winning 4x100 relay team which also included Kishia Mitchell, Emily Quatier and Crystal Sims. The foursome ran a GNAC meet-record time of 47.23 cutting one half second off the previous record.

That enabled Worthen to tie the women's meet record for most total victories (including relays) of four which had been accomplished on three previous occasions.

Self added a win in the hammer (175-5) Saturday to the discus title she won Friday. She also joined Western Washington hammer throw Michael Hoffman (179-9) as the only athletes to successfully defend their 2010 titles in Saturday's events.

In addition to Crofts, Chelimo Seattle Pacific's women's 4x100 relay team and UAA's men's 4x400 relay squad, UAA's Shaun Ward and Anica Knispel of Montana State Billings set meet records Saturday.

Ward won the 400 hurdles in a meet-record time of 52.23, Knispel won the women's shot with a record put of 46-0 3/4.

Western Oregon and Seattle Pacific won the team titles. The Wolves claimed their fifth championship outpointing defending champ Western Washington 203 to 173 1/2. WOU also won titles in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2008.

The Falcons also won their fifth team title as they cruised to a 206 1/2 to 121 point win over Western Washington. SPU also was the team champion last year and in 2002, 2006 and 2007.

Gruszecki, Welling Set Meet Records In Opening Day of GNAC Championships

Welling	Gruszecki

Monika Gruszecki of Western Washington set a meet record in winning the women's javelin in the opening day of the 2011 GNAC Track and Field Championships at McArthur Field in Monmouth (May 13).

Gruszecki won the event with a throw of 156-11, adding two feet, two inches to the previous mark.

Also earning a meet record was the Vikings' Jordan Welling in the 10,000. He was clocked in a time of 30:25.75 breaking the old record of 31:11.98 set four years ago by John Riak of Saint Martin's by 46 seconds.

Three other male athletes successfully defended their 2010 titles and another earned his third title.

David Registe of Alaska Anchorage won the long jump with a leap of 24-6 1/4. Registe also won that event in 2007 and 2008 before redshirting in 2010. No meet was held in 2009.

Micah Chelimo of Alaska Anchorage won the steeplechase in a time of 9:03.22 for the second year in a row. Jason Slowey of Western Oregon successfully repeated in the shot with a put of 53-5, while Ben Elder of Western Washington repeated in the discus with a throw of 167-1.

WWU's Sarah Porter won the women's 10,000 in a time of 36:33.87 earning her second title in that event. She also won the 10K three years ago in her freshman season.

Other winners Friday included Jaclyn Puga of Northwest Nazarene in the women's steeplechase (10:59.37), Torrie Self of Central Washington in the discus (143-8), Ali Worthen of Seattle Pacific in the long jump (18-5), Kati Davis of Central Washington in the pole vault (11-11 3/4) and Brennan Boyes of Central Washington in the men's high jump.

Boyes led a 1-2-3-4-5 Central sweep clearing 6-7 as the Wildcats, who have an 11-point team leader over Western Oregon (73-62), scored 33 points in that single event.

Seattle Pacific nearly matched the Wildcats in the women's long jump, claiming the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and fifth places for a total of 28 team points. The Falcons will take a 38 1/2 point lead into Day 2 over Western Washington (88 1/2-50)