SACRAMENTO, Calif. – One week after the end of the indoor season, Stanford opens its outdoor season at the Hornet Invitational today and Saturday at Sacramento State.
Only three Stanford athletes compete today, but Landon Ellingson will get the honor of opening the outdoor season when he competes in the third flight of the hammer throw. The event, which also includes Michael Painter and Tristen Newman in the fourth flight, begins 30 minutes after the women's hammer (11 a.m.) concludes, sometime in the afternoon.
Overall, the Cardinal should have 44 competitors – 25 men and 19 women. None of the 13 who competed at the NCAA Indoor Championships last weekend at Texas A&M will be here, but there are many notable appearances.
Canadian freshman Ashlan Best, the 2017 Pan Am Under-20 women's 200-meter champion, makes her Stanford outdoor debut. She is scheduled to compete in the 200 (5:05 p.m.) and 4x400 relay.
Best is among eight Cardinal making their outdoor debut. The other women doing the same are Brittany McGee (200, 100 hurdles, shot put), Valeris Przekop (high jump), and Aria Small (triple jump). Men making their outdoor debuts are Dion Brandt-Sims (400, 4x400), Steven Grolle (3,000 steeplechase), Jack Herkert (100 hurdles, high jump), Gabriel Navarro (100, 200, 4x400), and Louis Stenmark (400, 4x400).
Navarro and Stenmark, as well as Frank Kurtz (100, 200, 4x400) made up three-fourths of the school-record setting indoor 4x400 team that ran 3:09.38 at the Don Kirby Invitational in Albuquerque.
Those making their collegiate debuts are Will Kingsfield (men's javelin), Jake Koffman (men's discus), and Virginia Miller (women's javelin).
Two-time Pac-12 javelin champion Mackenzie Little headlines the Stanford contingent. The event begins Saturday at 9:30 a.m., with Little in the third flight.
Little placed fourth at the NCAA Championships last June. This will be her first competition since competing at the World University Games in Taiwan on August 23.
Little is among five Stanford All-Americans in action. The others, with their Saturday events in parentheses, are: Tom Coyle (men's 800), Brian Smith (men's 800), Michaela Crunkleton Wilson (100, 200, 4x400), and Gaby Gayles (100, 200, 4x400).
Meet Information:
Hornet Invitational
Where: Sacramento, Calif.
Site: Hornet Stadium
Meet schedule: Click here.
Live results: Click here.
Heat sheets: Click here.
Twitter: @stanfordXCTF
Stanford's Scheduled Competitors
Friday
Men's hammer: Landon Ellingson, Michael Painter, Tristen Newman.
Saturday
Men
100: Gabriel Navarro, Frank Kurtz, Terrence Alexander.
200: Gabriel Navarro, Frank Kurtz, Isaac Westlund.
400: Louis Stenmark, Isaac Westlund, Dion Brandt-Sims.
800: Tom Coyle, Brian Smith, Isaac Cortes, Scott Buttinger, Christian White, Nathaniel Kucera, Patrick Perrier.
110 hurdles: Jack Herkert.
400 hurdles: Daniel Brady, Colin Dolese, Lucas Ege.
3,000 steeplechase: Steven Grolle.
4x400 relay: Louis Stenmark, Frank Kurtz, Isaac Westlund, Gabriel Navarro; Daniel Brady, Colin Dolese, Dion Brandt-Sims, Lucas Ege.
High jump: Trevor Rex, Jack Herkert.
Triple jump: Fisayo Omilana.
Discus: Landon Ellingson, Jake Koffman.
Javelin: Trevor Danielson, Will Kingsfield.
Women
100: Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, Ashlan Best, Gaby Gayles, Marisa Kwiatkowski, Daryth Gayles.
200: Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, Ashlan Best, Gaby Gayles, Daryth Gayles, Brittany McGee.
100 hurdles: Brittany McGee, Hannah Labrie-Smith, Amber Lewis.
400 hurdles: Hannah Labrie-Smith.
4x400 relay: Michaela Crunkleton Wilson, Ashlan Best, Hannah Labrie-Smith, Gaby Gayles.
High jump: Valerie Przekop, Rachel Reichenbach.
Pole vault: Nicole Summersett, Jackie McNulty, Erika Malaspina, Kaitlyn Merritt.
Long jump: Daryth Gayles.
Triple jump: Aria Small, Marisa Kwiatkowski.
Shot put: Brittany McGee, Jaimi Salone.
Discus: Jaimi Salone.
Javelin: Mackenzie Little, Virginia Miller.
