Lopes wrap up competition at Aztec Invitational

Friday, March 24

San Diego, CA

Grand Canyon

Aztec Invitational

3/25/2017 11:45:00 PM | Track and Field

By: Samantha Fell

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The GCU track and field team concluded competition at the 39th Annual Aztec Invitational today, hosted by San Diego State. The Lopes broke three school records during the second day of competition.

"I am pleased with our student-athletes performances this weekend," GCU head coach Tom Flood noted. "For a bunch of young men and women at the end of their spring break and they all performed exceptionally well during the couple days in San Deigo."

Three Lopes shattered school records during competition in San Diego. Nyomi Mosley got things started for the Lopes as she broke the school record in the hammer throw with Western Athletic Conference leading mark of 53.23m (174-8). Sam Proctor followed with a record-breaking 5000m performance with a time of 14:35.05. Yarithza Soto would round out the program breaking performances during the long distance events as the true freshman posted a 2:13.30 to rank second in the WAC.

Six additional Lopes posted conference leading marks and times as they continued to raise the standards in the WAC. Sarah Root led the charge in the 100m hurdles with a time of 14.22 seconds to lead in the WAC. Briana Myers followed with a time of 14.45 to rank second in the conference. Martina Cernochova posted WAC-leading time of 11.86 in the 100m. Her time leads all sprinters by .09 seconds.

In the 400m hurdles, Anthony Phelps ran a time of 52.48 seconds to also lead the WAC. Not to be outdone, Ryan Girk set the 100m conference standard with a time of 10.71 seconds.

In jumps, Ayodele Adeyemi posted a conference leading triple jump mark with a leap of 14.50 meters. Scott Marshall continued his dominant performace in the pole vault with a jump of 5.11 meters.

Sasha-Gaye Marston set the new WAC mark in the discus with a throw of 52.39 meters to round out the top GCU performances on the weekend.

"We will get back to business as usual this next week in practice and look to get even better in our next meet at the University of New Mexico," Flood added.

Up next, the Lopes travel to Albuquerque, N.M. for the Don Kirby Tailwind Invitational on Saturday, April 1 as they continue to set the bars high in the WAC.