Washington Huskies track and field athletes achieved six new top-10 performances during competitions at the Mt. SAC Relays and the Bryan Clay Invitational in Southern California, according to an April 17 announcement.
The results highlight significant achievements for both men’s and women’s teams as they competed in a range of events over several days. The Huskies’ jumps squad contributed three of these top marks, with personal bests recorded by Leland Lieberg in the high jump, Trevontay Smith and Roman Hutchinson in the triple jump.
At Hilmer Lodge Stadium during the Mt. SAC Relays, senior Leland Lieberg cleared 7-0 1/4 on his third attempt, tying him for tenth place in school history for high jumpers. In the triple jump event, Smith reached a distance of 51-7 1/4 in his fifth round to become tenth overall in the West Region while improving his own No. 3 mark on Washington’s all-time list; Hutchinson followed with a leap of 50-10 3/4 to move into seventh place all-time at Washington.
Sprinters also found success: Jonathan Frazier won the collegiate section of the men’s 400-meter hurdles with a season-best time of 51.39 seconds, while Mikayla Gardley posted her own personal record (PR) of 1:00.64 in her first race this year over that distance. Additional notable performances included Ava Washburn competing in both long (18-10½) and triple jumps (39-3), Addy Kelly reaching a mark of 37-8½ in triple jump, Avril Wilson clearing a height of 12-9½ in pole vault, and Yvonne Colson setting a new PR with a discus throw measuring at 151-7.
At Azusa’s Bryan Clay Invitational, Chloe Thomas ran her first race since breaking Washington’s school record for the women’s outdoor ten-thousand meters by finishing fifth all-time outdoors for Washington with her time of 15:32.36 over five thousand meters. Julia David-Smith continued consistent form by clocking another sub-sixteen-minute performance (15:38), while Evan Jenkins improved his outdoor five-thousand-meter best to move up one spot to fifth on Washington’s all-time list with his run of 13:32.34.
Other strong showings included Jenica Swartz (2:03.45) and Chloe Symon (2:03.84) running fast times over eight hundred meters—Symon’s effort placing her ninth outdoors among Huskies historically—and Abby DeVeau breaking sixteen minutes for five thousand meters for the first time with her run clocked at fifteen minutes fifty-nine point seventy-three seconds late into Friday night competition.
