Andrus settles for bronze, PR at Pac-lOs
Redshirt junior Abby Andrus makes a comeback
to finish third and earns a 151 -point personal best
Women’s track and field
Jesse Thomas
Sports Reporter
Nearly one year after redshirt junior Abby Andrus
transferred to Oregon, her heptathlon personal best has
skyrocketed by 400 points.
A larger university, a different state and a matchup
with the nation’s leading heptathlete all propelled Andrus
from her 4,903-point 2002 personal best.
This weekend’s Pacific-10 Conference Championships
at Cromwell Field in Los Angeles provided the scenery
for a third place finish and new personal best, 5,303
points.
The Peoria, Ariz., native earned the bronze, behind
NCAA leader Ellannee Richardson of Washington State
(5,766) and Stanford’s Lillian Bush (5,519).
Andrus jumped the gun from the start earning a per
sonal best in the first event, 13.99 seconds in the 100
hurdles, and finished off day one with 3,108 points, an
89-point improvement on her opening-day best.
The windy day had a positive influence on Andrus’
performance leading to more than one great success. She
also earned personal bests in the shot put and 200 me
ters with marks of 33 feet, 6 3/4 inches and 25.70, re
spectively.
“Abby had a really good first day,” Oregon assistant
coach and heptathlon mentor Mark Stream said Satur
day night. “She’s 121 points ahead of her first day at the
Oregon Invite, so that’s encouraging. One of our goals is
to improve on her final score from that meet and to
climb the NCAA list.”
“The other goal is to finish as high as possible, and a
couple of good athletes are in striking range.”
Day two offered much of the same as Andrus improved
by three inches in the long jump with a personal best of
18-2 1/2. She also dropped nearly three seconds off her
best mark in the 800 meters (2:14.93) to move her up
from the fourth position.
Andrus passed up Washington State’s Diana Pickier for
third, earning Oregon six points, after the Cougar fresh
man dropped two spots and had the third-lowest score
of the final day.
Yet Pickier and Richardson combined for 15 points to
propel Washington State into the lead at the conference
championships.
After hoping to finish second, Andrus must settle with
a 151-point jump from her previous season best and an
almost guaranteed entrance into the NCAA Champi
onships despite falling short of the automatic qualifying
mark of 5,500 points.
The 22-year-old will now have one month to recover
and reset before the NCAA Championships begin June
11 in Sacramento, Calif.
Oregon continued its successes at Cobb Track and An
gell Field on Friday, when two Ducks earned Pac-10 and
regional qualifying marks at Stanford’s Cardinal Qualifi
er.
Redshirt senior Carrie Zografos surpassed the 17
minute regional qualifying standard in the 5,000 meters,
running a 10-second personal best (16:51.10).
Junior Jill Hoxmeier said hello to her first Pac-10 and
regional invite after a 3 1/2-foot lifetime best in the dis
cus. Hoxmeier finished sixth (151-9) and overcame the
Pac-10 and regional marks of 150 and 150-11.
“It was a pretty good day for us,” Oregon women’s
head coach Tom Heinonen said. “We got two of the four
performances we were hoping for. Carrie looked good in
the last kilometer and easily made the regional standard.
Jill got it done on her last throw to get her regional and
Pac-10 invites.”
In the 800 meters, senior Eri Macdonald placed sev
enth in 2:08.71, and redshirt freshman Sara Schaaf
missed both qualifying standards after finishing 10th at
2:15.64.
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Jeff Lindsey and the other two high jumpers swept the top spots at Stanford.
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Abby Andrus couldn't overcome the nation's best heptathlete, but finished third.
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to keep his nerves.”
Slye improved on his fifth-place
finish from last year by finishing
strong along with Lorenzo. Slye
was fifth overall heading into the
1,500, but finished 16 seconds
ahead of Stanford’s Timi Wusu,
who was fourth heading into the
last event.
Young, knowing he needed to
beat Wusu by 38 seconds to slide
into fourth, finished 38.4 seconds
ahead of Wusu to knock the Cardi
nal decathlete ail the way down to
sixth. Young also won the event.
“That was huge, what Jason and
Andy did in the 1,500,” Lorenzo
said. “Andy just took off and never
looked back.”
Lorenzo’s point total of 7,564
points was 347 points short of his
personal best, but Lawson is being
careful with Lorenzo, who should
run some events at the regular por
tion of the Pac-10 meet next week
end. Lorenzo is peaking toward the
NCAA Championships and will be
among the favorites to win his sec
ond national title.
The Ducks also sent a handful of
competitors to Stanford’s Cardinal
Qualifier on Friday. Oregon’s trio of
freshman high jumpers swept the
top three spots in the Qualifier high
jump, freshman David Moore won
the pole vault, and James March
finished third in the discus with his
second-best mark ever.
In other Duck action, redshirt
freshman distance runner Erik
Heinonen finished the 5,000-meter
race 22nd of 26 runners in 14 min
utes, 58 seconds. Redshirt fresh
"Andy just took off and
never looked back "
Santiago Lorenzo
Oregon decathlete
man pole vaulter Jon Derby also
finished third in the pole vault.
The Ducks will send a contingent
of athletes to next weekend’s Pac
10 competition, which runs Satur
day and Sunday in Los Angeles.
The Ducks will attempt to finish
first after finishing second to Stan
ford last season.
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