Saturday, May 11
Santa Barbara, CA
9:00 AM PT
UC Irvine
at
Big West Championships
Photo by Lloyd Sicard
Photo by: Lloyd Sicard
Coward Wins Big West Hammer Title in Dramatic Fashion
May 11, 2019 | Women's Track & Field
Results
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Senior Barbara Coward won the hammer throw in dramatic fashion to highlight the final day of the Big West Championships for the UC Irvine women's track & field team Saturday at Pauley Track Facility.
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Coward, who entered the meet as the No. 1 seed, was locked in a back-and-forth battle with No. 2 seed De'Ondra Young of Long Beach State. Young held an early lead before Coward took over the top spot on her third attempt in the second flight where she recorded a distance of 194-10.
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Young would reclaim the advantage at 195-05 to start the final round. Then, on her last attempt of the competition, Coward came up big under pressure with a heave of 195-06 to edge Young for the title. It was Coward's second first-place finish of the weekend as she became the Big West's first double champion in the discus and hammer since 2015.
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Junior Brianna Villanueva added her second all-conference performance, coming in third in the hammer with a mark of 185-03.
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Senior Elizabeth Akindele also had a runner-up showing in the shot put as she moved into second place with a season-best 46-03.25 on her final attempt.
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Freshman Lorraine Nance scored in the triple jump where she was eighth overall (38-06).
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On the track, freshman Zani Meaders made her way onto the podium with a third-place finish. Meaders ran a personal-record 55.00, climbing one spot to No. 3 in program history.
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Senior Julia Sambvani scored in the 400m hurdles where she registered a season-best 61.44 (6th).
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Freshman Hannah Chau, who was coming off a top-eight finish in last night's 10K, picked up a couple more points in the 5000m as sheΒ notched a season-best 17:21.20 to come in seventh. Chau is the first Anteater to score in both the 5K and 10K since Carlotta Pham in 2013.
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The quartet of Natalie Koppel, Hope Bushnell, Sambvani and Mikayla Scott narrowly missed a top-three finish in the 4x100 relay with a season-best 46.76. They were just six-hundredths of a second behind third-place Hawai'i.
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Scott, Meaders, Sambvani and freshman Destiny Whitaker also combined for a season-best 3:47.64 in the 4x400 (6th).
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As a team, the 'Eaters finished seventh with 64 points.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Senior Barbara Coward won the hammer throw in dramatic fashion to highlight the final day of the Big West Championships for the UC Irvine women's track & field team Saturday at Pauley Track Facility.
Β
Coward, who entered the meet as the No. 1 seed, was locked in a back-and-forth battle with No. 2 seed De'Ondra Young of Long Beach State. Young held an early lead before Coward took over the top spot on her third attempt in the second flight where she recorded a distance of 194-10.
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Young would reclaim the advantage at 195-05 to start the final round. Then, on her last attempt of the competition, Coward came up big under pressure with a heave of 195-06 to edge Young for the title. It was Coward's second first-place finish of the weekend as she became the Big West's first double champion in the discus and hammer since 2015.
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Junior Brianna Villanueva added her second all-conference performance, coming in third in the hammer with a mark of 185-03.
Β
Senior Elizabeth Akindele also had a runner-up showing in the shot put as she moved into second place with a season-best 46-03.25 on her final attempt.
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Freshman Lorraine Nance scored in the triple jump where she was eighth overall (38-06).
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On the track, freshman Zani Meaders made her way onto the podium with a third-place finish. Meaders ran a personal-record 55.00, climbing one spot to No. 3 in program history.
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Senior Julia Sambvani scored in the 400m hurdles where she registered a season-best 61.44 (6th).
Β
Freshman Hannah Chau, who was coming off a top-eight finish in last night's 10K, picked up a couple more points in the 5000m as sheΒ notched a season-best 17:21.20 to come in seventh. Chau is the first Anteater to score in both the 5K and 10K since Carlotta Pham in 2013.
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The quartet of Natalie Koppel, Hope Bushnell, Sambvani and Mikayla Scott narrowly missed a top-three finish in the 4x100 relay with a season-best 46.76. They were just six-hundredths of a second behind third-place Hawai'i.
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Scott, Meaders, Sambvani and freshman Destiny Whitaker also combined for a season-best 3:47.64 in the 4x400 (6th).
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As a team, the 'Eaters finished seventh with 64 points.
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