Jonny Anderson Field athlete junior Chris Randolph rises after practicing poll vault while track athletes round the track Monday afternoon in Wallace field.

The last couple of weeks have been busy for the Falcon track and field team, highlighted with a few accomplished athletes who were rewarded with a trip to Boston for the NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center on March 12. Junior Danielle Ayers-Stamper brought a national championship in the high jump home to SPU; the first indoor athlete to do so in eleven years. Ayers-Stamper entered the meet as the number one seed and cleared a bar set at five-feet-eight-inches to out-jump seven others tied at five-feet-seven-inches. The Falcons finished eighth overall, their best result since a sixth-place finish in 1993.

Sophomore sensation Karen Dickson was runner up in the 5,000 meter and, improved upon her own school record. Dickson also competed in the distance medley relay, in which the Falcons finished seventh. The other legs of the medley were run by freshman Karin Rohde, junior Josie Lavin and sophomore Kinyatta Leonhardt. Their time of 11.47.46 was a school and conference record. Also at the championships, junior pole vault qualifiers Amy Harris and Allison Hedges placed 11th and 13th respectively.

Other track and field athletes were busy garnering wins over break as well. On Saturday, the Falcons swept the top four spots in the javelin competition at the Vernacchia Team Classic at Civic Stadium in Bellingham. Led by freshman Lauren VerMulm with a throw of 150-feet-four-inches, the second, third and fourth spots were occupied by Molly Hornbuckle, Amy Taylor and Ayers-Stamper, respectively.

Senior Ally Studer won the pole vault en route to a team win for the Falcon women. For the second straight year SPU won the Classic by the skin of their teeth, beating Simon Fraser 93.5-92. The Falcon men placed sixth in the competition.

At the Stanford Invitational on March 28, Ayers-Stamper became the third Falcon ever to run the 100 meter hurdles in under 14 seconds.

Senior Tim LeCount broke a 23-year-old SPU record in the 10,000 meter run at the Willamette Invitational in Salem with a time of 31.27.54.

On March 24, junior Chris Randolph placed second in the Cal Multi-Event, excelling in the second day of competition after being sixth place the first day.

On Friday many of the Falcons will go to Cheney, Wash. to compete in the Pelluer Invitational.