MOSCOW, ID – Warrior Track and Field continued its outing at Idaho’s Lauren McCluskey Memorial Open on Friday. Perry Severijnse concluded the first multi of his career, and multiple LC State athletes had personal-bests on the day.

“Pretty pleased with how things have gone today,” coach Mike Collins said. “Really need to shake some of the rust off from Christmas break. It is tough to spend that time away from coaching and training before getting back together and competing as quickly as we do, but I think the kids came out and really performed well and we’re excited at where we’re at right now. A lot of the kids are way ahead of where they normally are at this time of the year when it comes to our returners. Women throwers looked exceptionally good today with some PRs, and a couple making the finals is real exciting there. We’ll come back tomorrow with a lot of athletes competing in their second event. We’ll see how well they recover tonight going in tomorrow, and that’ll help us better prepare next week.”

Severijnse finished ninth in the first heptathlon of his career with 3,584 points. He placed sixth in the pole vault (3.10m), eighth in the 60m hurdles (9.58) and 10^th in the 1,000m (3:16.71).

LC State men’s sprinters edited the record book with four PRs in the 200m. Preston Cooper bettered his hold on the No. 3 in Warrior history and was seventh overall in the  field with a time of 22.09. Jedidiah Barnaby was ninth (22.23) and Collin Wimer ran the fourth fastest time ever by a Warrior (22.36) to finish 13^th. Avery Seal was 16^th (22.65), Adian Greiner ran a PR to finish 18^th (22.69) and Luke Siler was 22^nd (22.85). Noah Carpenter ran a time of 22.90 to place 24^th in his collegiate debut, James Bogdanowicz was 43^rd (23.69), Michael Colvin placed 45^th (23.90), Milo Kunnap finished 51^st (25.10) and Brandon Decker ran a PR of 25.18 to place 52^nd.

Camille Ussher highlighted track events on the day for the LC State women. The senior clocked the third-best 1,000m time in program history to finish fourth in the field with a time of 3:01.57. Grace Tiegs was 11^th (3:06.89), Nuala Rollins placed 22^nd (3:16.75), Eva Lundgren finished 23^rd (3:17.66) and Leila Flannery was 26^th (3:22.27).

In field events, Faith Wersland led the Warrior women in the weight throw with a personal-best mark of 13.69m. She finished seventh in the field with Grace Osborne in eighth (13.58m) as both made the final. Haylee Appleford earned a 10^th-place finish with a personal best mark of 13.24m, Hope Zollman threw a career best 12.07m to finish 16^th and Shayvon Williams was 23^rd (10.48m).

Reid Thomas led a group of Warrior men in the weight throw with a 13th-place finish (15.31m). Alex Lambson (26^th, 12.16m), Zane Hearne (37^th, 10.70m) and Micah Fox (39^th, 10.21m) all made their LC State debuts in the event.

Senior Emily Collins led LC State in the women’s 200m with a 15^th-place finish (26.02). Freshman Claire Dooley was 17^th (26.56), Kailee Lerew was 26^th (27.35) and Olivia Yetter finished 37^th (30.49).

Isahi Salinas had his best day yet in the high jump. He hit a PR of 1.85m to finish seventh. Bogdanowicz and Decker finished in the top 10 of the pole vault. Bogdanowicz was sixth (4.30m) and Decker cleared a personal best of 4.15m to place 10^th.

Freshman Sven Druijff was the top Warrior finisher in the 3,000m with a time of 8:39.64. He placed 12^th with Kobe Wessels in eighth (8:46.82). Connor Alexander finished 31^st (9:03.63), Alexander Fry was 42^nd (9:12.64) and Ben Vernon ran a personal best of 9:14.03 to place 44^th. Dawson Welliver rounded out the group in 65^th (10:01.89). Damaris Kibiwot led the women in the event with a 20^th-place finish (10:57.80) and Lily Bennett was 28^th (11:28.12).