Meet Schedule | Heat Sheets
LOGAN, Utah – Utah State will open the indoor portion of its track & field season on Saturday, Jan. 12, at the Boise-State hosted Bronco Invitational. The all-day meet will be held at Jacksons Indoor Track in Nampa, Idaho.
"We are excited to finally be getting on the road this weekend," said second-year USU head track & field coach
Matt Ingebritsen. "The start of a new season always brings big expectations and anticipation. It is a time to see how all of the reps, sweat and hard days has paid off. I am really excited to see how we get this season kicked off. We will have some great things happen this weekend that will set us up for another big year for Utah State track & field."
During the 2018 campaign, the quartet of
Clay Lambourne,
Dillon Maggard,
Jordan Beutler and
Brady Martin garnered first-team All-American honors by placing fifth in the DMR with a school-record time of 9 minutes, 32.31 seconds at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Maggard also earned first-team All-American honors by placing fifth in the 3,000 meters, while Lambourne captured second-team All-American honors in the 800 meters.
Overall, the men's team ended the NCAA Indoor Finals with eight points to place 29th, the best team finish since 1977, when Utah State took 21st.
Twelve Aggies, including five returners, earned all-Mountain West honors a total of 16 times at the 2018 Indoor Championships. Highlighting the group was jumper
Leaugen Fray, who won both the high jump (2.18 meters/7-1.75) and the long jump (7.38 meters/24-2.50), as a junior.
Multi-eventer
Hunter Simonsen, who is beginning his freshman season with the Aggies, also garnered an accolade in the high jump after his third-place finish with a mark of 2.12 meters (6-11.50).
On the women's side, thrower
Brenn Flint, now a senior, set the school's indoor shot put record as she won the event with a throw of 16.70 meters (54-9.50). She was joined in all-MW honors by
Maia Garren, now a junior, who placed third in the same event with a personal-best throw of 15.52 meters (50-11.00).
In the field,
Sam Nelson won Utah State's first men's pole vault title since 2005 by clearing a height of 5.15 meters (16-10.75) to garner all-MW accolades, while
Kyle Brost placed third in the long jump with a mark of 14.85 meters (48-8.75) to earn the Aggies' first all-MW selection in the men's triple jump since joining the league. Nelson is now a senior, while Brost is a junior.
Overall, the Aggie men finished third at the 2018 MW Indoor Championships with 116 points, while the women placed eighth with 44.67 points.
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