Results
FULL MEET RESULTS
AZUSA, Calif. -- The seventh annual Bryan Clay Invitational was the largest in the meet’s history, drawing almost 2,400 athletes to Azusa Pacific’s Cougar Athletic Stadium for 16 hours of competition, and the performances matched the field size as competitors broke 11 meet records and three stadium records in Friday’s competition.
Azusa Pacific junior Allison Updike was among the record-breakers, winning the women’s javelin by shattering the previous meet record by seven feet with a throw of 168-feet, 7-inches (51.38 meters), which is the second-best NCAA Division II mark of the season and ranks 14th on the 2015 U.S. national performance list.
Five of the 11 records came in running events of 800 meters or longer, including both the men’s and women’s 5,000 meters which were contested under the Friday night lights for the second straight year. In four events (men’s 800, men’s 5,000, women’s 1,500, and women’s 5,000), the previous record was surpassed by at least three competitors, with five athletes in the men’s 800 meters beating the previous standard.
In the women’s 1,500 meters, four athletes finished in meet-record time, and Azusa Pacific senior Staci Foster was the fifth-place finisher with a school-record time, Division II’s second-fastest this year, of 4:21.49.
In the men’s steeplechase, which featured a meet-record victory from Augustana (S.D.) College’s Adam Braun, who finished in 9:02.22, Azusa Pacific senior Peter Buscheck claimed third place with a time of 9:05.84. Buscheck’s effort was just six-tenths of a second off the program-record set by Terry Drake in 1979, and it knocked 15 seconds off his own previous NCAA Division II provisional qualifying time to propel him into 12th on the national list.
The first record to fall in the meet actually took place Thursday in the annual Hammer and Hot Dogs competition in Cerritos, where University of South Alabama’s Renaldo Frechou beat the previous meet record by over six feet with his throw of 225-feet, 6-inches. Azusa Pacific’s Danica Dobosy took third place in the women’s hammer throw with a personal-best of 186-feet, 5-inches, to move into sole possession of the second spot on the program’s all-time list.
Other top performances by Azusa Pacific athletes included Shujaa Benson, who claimed runner-up in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.05 seconds, which is the fifth-fastest Division II performance this season. Benson also registered a Division II provisional qualifier in the long jump as he registered a jump of 23-feet, 10.25-inches (7.27 meters).
The long jump featured another meet and stadium record when David Registe, representing the Caribbean island nation of Dominica, posted a jump of 27-feet, 2.50-inches (8.29 meters) on his fourth and final jump. Two of his other jumps also would have won the competition and broken the meet record, but his final jump took down the previous stadium record of 26-feet, 3-inches, set by Mike Powell in 1996.
In women’s pole vault, sophomore Zoe Wilkens cleared a personal-best height of 12-feet, 4-inches (3.76 meters), moving into the top 10 of Division II vaulters with her career-best.
New meet records are listed below, with new stadium records indicated by asterisk (*):
Men’s 800 meters
Edwin Herring (New Mexico): 1:49.71
Men’s 3000 meter steeplechase
Adam Braun (Augustana-S.D.): 9:02.22
Men’s 5000 meters
Kyle Eller (Air Force): 14:18.66
Men’s hammer
Renaldo Frechou (South Alabama): 225’-06†(68.74 meters)
*Men’s long jump
David Registe (Dominica): 27’-02.50†(8.29 meters)
*Women’s 100 meters
Ana Silva (Brazil): 11.07
Women’s 200 meters
Leslie Cole (Team F.O.C.O.S.): 22.99
Women’s 1500 meters
Annette Melcher (unattached): 4:20.15
*Women’s 5000 meters
Rochelle Kanuho (HOKA NAZ Elite): 16:29.11
Women’s 4x400 meter relay
Team F.O.C.O.S.: 3:37.29
Women’s javelin
Allison Updike (Azusa Pacific): 168’-07†(51.38 meters)
