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Erica Birk-Jarvis (posed), who broke BYU's 3000m indoor record by more than three seconds in 9: 00.69 at the Iowa State Classic 2019, qualified for the final steeple of the NCAA.
BYU made another promising performance at the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Austin, Texas, allowing four athletes to qualify for Saturday's final.
After seeing the BYU men's team steal the show a day earlier, the women took their turn for another day devoted mainly to competition in the semifinals.
As expected, BYU's Erica Birk-Jarvis, who achieved the second fastest time of the nation, qualified for the steeplechase final. Birk-Jarvis, a senior from Coalsville, was seventh in the semifinal (third in her heat). Two-time NCAA champion Allie Ostrander of Boise State won the other heat with a time of 9: 44.32.
Whittni Orton of BYU, a Panguitch junior, was fifth in the heat to qualify for the 1500-meter final. She finished 12th fastest on 12 qualifiers. Jessica Hull of Oregon clocked the fastest time of the day, 4: 12.02.
BYU's Brenna Porter, a Logan senior, was second in her heat and fifth overall with a time of 57.03. Only 0.26 seconds separated second place from sixth place. Porter broke a long-standing school record a few weeks ago with a time of 56.89.
BYU's Anna Camp, a Fillmore junior with the 12th fastest time in the country before the competition, was one of eight women to qualify for the 800-meter final. She placed third in her heat (seventh overall) with a time of 2: 03.65. It was 0.04 of a second faster than his better life.
Meanwhile, second-year teammate Lauren Ellsworth, who clocked the nation's third fastest time (2: 02.49), was unable to qualify for the final. She found herself in slow tactical heat and finished 11th with a time of 2: 04.52. Penn's Nia Akins clocked the best time of the day, 2: 02.88.
Andrea Stapleton-Johnson, another BYU member in the competition, will not participate until Saturday. She has the best high jump mark in the nation.
The best performance of the day among local athletes was delivered by Tawnie Moore of Weber State. In the 100-meter hurdles, she finished seventh with a world-class time of 13.03, beating her own Big Sky conference record with 13.13.
Tiffany Lott-Hogan ran 12.72 in 1997 and Kirsten Bolm 12.86 in 1999. Lott-Hogan started coaching at Weber four years ago and seems to have made a difference. Moore's best time in high school was 14.53. Weber qualified two hurdles for this competition, the other being second, Kate Sorensen, who set a school record of 57.46 two weeks ago in the NCAA prelims. Nevertheless, Sorensen failed to qualify for the final.
Another local athlete also competed on Thursday. Simmons Mecham (Utah State), a senior from Soda Springs, Idaho, finished 20th in the steeplechase with a time of 10: 23.90 and failed to qualify for the final. She placed eighth in the NCAA finals last year with a record time of 9: 49.33.
In the only men's competition of the day, BYU's Brian Matthews finished 11th in the decathlon. He was ranked 24th.
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