FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (February 20, 2020) – In their final meet before next week's Big Sky Indoor Track & Field Championships, the Northern Arizona track & field team will host the NAU Tune Up in the Walkup Skydome on Friday.
The women's and men's pole vault events will open the meet at 12 p.m. with the rest of the field events beginning at 2 p.m. The women's and men's 60m hurdles preliminaries will be the first running events at 4:30 p.m.
The Lumberjacks will have a small group of athletes competing in the final home meet of the season with the majority of the expected competitors in the field events.
NAU's throwers will take one more shot at improving their season marks in the weight throw and shot put. In the men's and women's shot put, junior
Parker Joens and sophomore
Matilde Roe each rank third in the Big Sky with season-best marks of 18.25m and 14.74m respectively.
On the men's side, redshirt sophomore
Jake Arnold (16.92m) ranks sixth in the shot put, while freshmen
Carly Watts (14.17m) and
Alaina Diggs (13.89m) rank fifth and eighth respectively on the women's side.
Sophomore
William Beaudry leads the Big Sky, and ranks 40th nationally, in the men's weight throw with a best mark of 20.17m this season. Freshman
Kimberly Buchanan is coming off her best throw of the season last week of 16.95m, which places her eighth in the conference.
Moving on to the jumps, a group of NAU freshmen will all look to make one final leap towards the conference championships.
Freshmen Cameron Peters (6.74m) and
Kenya Coburn (5.25m) will aim to improve on their top marks of their first indoor season. Freshman
Lily Margolis is slated for the women's long jump as well as the women's triple jump where she will try to record her first mark of the season.
In the men's high jump, freshman
Bryan Campbell holds the NAU's top mark of the season at 1.93m, which places him 14th in the conference entering the week.
Freshman
Joseph Hylton leads the Lumberjack sprinters into the final weekend before the conference championships with an altitude-converted 60m time of 6.89, which puts him in sixth in the Big Sky. Similarly, junior
Carter Bracken ranks sixth in the 60m hurdles with an altitude-converted time of 8.09. Bracken will be among a slew of 'Jacks in the 60m hurdles.
Freshmen
Madeline Wilson (8.99) and
Marissa Milos (9.09) is targeted for the women's 60m hurdles as they hope to drop their season-best altitude-converted times that has them 11th and 17th respectively in the conference.
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