Results

DAVIS, Calif. - The UC Irvine women's track & field team finished third at the Big West Championships Saturday at UC Davis.
 
The Anteaters had eight podium finishes and compiled 101 points to place among the top-three at the conference meet for the first time since 2014.
 
Sophomore Kassidy Sani started the day off with a runner-up finish in the javelin. Her best throw of the afternoon came on her sixth and final attempt where she hit a personal-record 153-02. It was a nearly 10-foot improvement that moved her up to No. 2 in program history. Freshman Laura Lindquist also scored in the javelin, placing seventh overall (133-04).
 
Sani added five points in the discus where she was fourth with a toss of 153 feet.
 
Reyna Johnson, Aryel Coats, Mikaela Rosario and Zani Meaders kicked off the track events with a fourth-place finish in the 4x100 relay (47.09). They were .06 seconds off their season best.
 
Freshman Anna Vogtmann then topped her lifetime best from yesterday's prelim with a time of 4:25.64 to take second in the 1500m. She cracked UCI's all-time top-10 with her PR coming in at No. 9. Freshman Olivia Liuson also scored with a personal-best 4:33.01 (7th), while sophomore Claire Livengood was 10th (4:40.42).
 
Sophomore Amari Fraser led a pair of Anteaters in the 100m hurdles where she was fourth overall. Fraser established a personal-record 14.04, which is tied for 10th in school history. Freshman Reyna Johnson wasn't far behind in fifth (14.05). Fraser added another fourth-place finish in the 400m hurdles with a lifetime-best 61.40.
 
Senior Zani Meaders had a runner-up showing in the 400m, finishing just three-hundredths of a second behind Long Beach State's Natalie Tolento. It was Meaders' second career top-three Big West finish. Sophomore Mia Marquez contributed two points as she took seventh (57.90).
 
Graduate student Emma McCarthy placed second in the 800m with a time of 2:09.91. It was her second consecutive sub 2:10 race as she was .74 seconds shy of her PR from Friday's preliminary round. Sophomore Alexis Alexander scored as well, coming in seventh overall at 2:13.79.
 
Fraser, Marquez, Meaders and McCarthy closed out the meet with a third-place finish in the 4x400 relay. The quartet registered a season-best 3:46.50.