IUP Takes Eleven Event Titles at the PSAC West Challenge

Complete Results

Jermaine Clayton won three events, Gretchen Colwell won twice and Sean Strauman and Nicole Blaesser provisionally qualified for nationals to lead the IUP track and field team at the PSAC West Challenge hosted by California.

Clayton won the 100 meters and triple jump and tied for first in the long jump.  Strauman lowered his own school record in the 800 with a winning time of 1:51.50.

Colwell was the women's champion in the discus and hammer and was third in the shot put.  Blaesser had a provisional qualifying time of 10:11.40 in the 3000.

In the team standings, the IUP women were second with 166.25 points, trailing only Slippery Rock, which had 262.25.  On the men's side, IUP was third with 132, behind Shippensburg (230) and Slippery Rock (161.5).

Other men's winners included Adam Shinsky in the steeplechase, Chris Gardner in the high jump and Rob Conrad in the javelin. 

Jess Moyer tied for first in the pole vault, and Casie Williams and Katie Farnsworth scored in multiple events for the women.  Williams was second in both the long jump and high jump while Farnsworth placed third in the 800 and 1500.

IUP athletes will compete at the Bucknell Distance Carnival and the Slippery Rock Invitational next weekend.