@UNC_TrackField Goes All Out in Final Day of BSC Indoors

Saturday, February 25

Pocatello, ID

All Day

University of Northern Colorado

BIG SKY CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 2

2/25/2017 6:43:00 PM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field, Track & Field

The Bears had three athletes pick up All-Big Sky Honors, along with the women's 4x400 relay team

By: UNCBears.com

FINAL RESULTS

POCATELLO, Idaho – Northern Colorado came away with three medals after the final day of the Big Sky Indoor Championships.

The Bears held Top 3 finishes in the women's 200m dash, 800m run, triple jump and 4x400 relay team, coming away with a sixth place team finish with 51 points, the best finish the women's program has had since joining the Big Sky Conference in 2006.

Best Finishes:
Senior sprinter, Moriah Zachary donned All-Conference honors in the 200m dash. Zachary held the first place seed after the prelim, but came up just short in her quest for Big Sky gold, taking second place with a new program-best time of 24.02 seconds. The time also sat as the eighth best in Big Sky history.

Zachary earned points for UNC in the 60m dash as well. She broke the tape in 7.66 seconds, finishing in fourth place, just missing out on a Top 3 time by .06 seconds.

The next All-Big Sky performer for the Bears was sophomore middle distance runner, Cammy Sargent. Sargent continued to be model of consistency in the 800m run, placing third in the finals to the tune of 2:09.64. The finish was a new UNC indoor record, along with a new PR for Sargent.

The final Northern Colorado athlete to seal up individual All-League honors was Julliette Cossey in the women's triple jump. Cossey took home the silver in the event with a jump of 12.24m (40-02.00). The second place mark set a new program record for the Bears, as Cossey is the only UNC jumper in history to record a mark over 12 meters, which she's done twice this season.

The women's 4x400m relay team rounded out the meet for UNC with a third place performance. The squad of Alyssa Bettendorf, Cammy Sargent, Shalise Fernander and Mackenzie Howie exchanged the baton around the track in a time of 3:46.42, over three seconds faster than their original seeding time.

Other Finishes:
Junior sprinter, Alivia Ayres-Perry helped toward Northern Colorado's team points. Ayres-Perry boasted a sixth place finish in the 60m dash, breaking the tape in 7.67 seconds and an eighth place finish in the 200m, crossing the line in 24.98 seconds.

UNC came in seventh and eighth in the women's 400m dash. Mackenzie Howie and Shalise Fernander represented the Blue and Gold with times of 56.53 and 56.54 seconds, respectively.

Sophomore middle-distance runner, Alicia Thompson was the final trackster to aid toward the women's team points. Thompson was good for sixth in the 800m run with a time of 2:13.30, a new personal-best and a third place spot in the UNC indoor record book for the event.

On the men's side, Evan Keely was the only runner from the team to qualify for a final. Keely placed seventh overall in the 800m run coming across in 1:55.11.

As a team, the men came in 12th place with four points.

In Their Words:
Head Coach, Amanda Schick

"I'm so proud of this women's team, it was a day full of All-Conference performances, school records and our highest team finish. These women did a great job! It's a great way to end this season and we are in a great place going into outdoor, especially since we have some redshirt women returning. I just want to say thank you so much to my assistant coaches and all of our athletes, it's been a great indoor season."

On the men's finish
"Our men's team doesn't have a lot of depth this year, so when you lose three to four athletes to injuries, it has a major effect on team scores. We need to regroup and maximize our strengths for the outdoor season."

On the upcoming outdoor season
"We have three weeks before outdoor begins. So right now we are going to enjoy the victories we've accomplished, get some needed recovery and get then back to business."

Up Next:
The track and field team will now turn its focus to the outdoor season. The Bears will start new season with a trip to Las Vegas, Nevada on March 16-18 competing in the UNLV Invite and Multi.