Cheney, Kemboi take home WAC Outstanding Track Performer titles at indoor championships
The Wolverines take home five WAC event championships from Spokane at the WAC Indoor Championships.
The Wolverines take home five WAC event championships from Spokane at the WAC Indoor Championships.
Kemboi captures win in the women’s 3000-meter run at the Stacy Dragila Open and now holds the fastest event time in WAC this season.
Krista Farley and Maysen Rollo both set new school records at the Washington State Open last Saturday.
The Utah Valley University track & field team won the most events at the Stacy Dragila Invitational on Friday and Saturday.
The Wolverines had several top-10 finishes and a few first-overall finishes in their second meet of the indoor track season.
After holding a commanding lead after day one on Feb. 27 over four-peat champions Grand Canyon University, the men’s team competed well individually. But, couldn’t bring the team score together for the win on day two, Feb. 28. Overall, the UVU men took second and the women took fourth at Jackson Track in Boise, Idaho.
Boise State hosted Utah Valley University and several other local teams at their annual Ed Jacoby indoor track meet on Jan. 24-25. The meet was by far the biggest so far for the Wolverines as they competed against 20 other teams. The Wolverines —who performed well over the weekend — showed that they’ll be able to compete as a complete team to potentially win the WAC championship next month.
Lynch recently finished up his final cross country season in 2019, a year where he dominated statistically. He ended the WAC season repeating in the 8K race at the WAC Championships and took home WAC Men’s Athlete of the Year honors for the second consecutive season. His victory helped the men’s team win the championship for the fifth time in seven years.
Utah Valley University track and field came into the Brigham Young University indoor invite on Jan. 9-11, with two things in mind. First, to compete against their rival in-state universities and second, to get a good idea of how things could shape up this indoor track season. The Wolverines accomplished both, leaving no doubt that the team has been working hard over the holiday season.
It has been nearly seven months to the day that the Utah Valley University track and field teams won the WAC championship on the men’s side and took second for the women. With another championship in mind, the team ventured to Weber State University on Dec. 6-7, to commence their indoor season. Though the meet wasn’t scored, the Wolverines showed some great potential on both the men’s and women’s teams.