UVU Breaks Another School Record at Blue & Orange Invite

The Wolverines broke the women's 4x400m relay school record by more than five seconds.

Jan. 24, 2009

Complete Results

NAMPA, Idaho - Utah Valley University men's and women's track and field teams competed well at Boise State's Blue and Orange Invitational Saturday as the Wolverines broke another school record, the women's 4x400m relay.

"Overall it was a really good meet for us today," UVU head track coach Scott Houle said. "We knew coming into the event that we would face good competition and be able to compete at a wonderful facility and our kids definitely performed well. We are slowly starting to get ourselves geared up and ready for the conference championships in the beginning of March."

Members of the women's 4x400m relay that set a new school record on Saturday by just over five seconds of the previous time were Chelsea Baker, Zandrea Nelson, Jessica Wortley, and Tierra Zaugg. The Wolverines placed third overall in the event with a time of 3:52.44. UVU's Jazmine Wittman was able to finish first in the women's 60m dash for the second consecutive meet as she finished with a time of 7.81. Utah Valley finished the women's 60m dash with four sprinters placing in the top six. Amanda Morse placed third, Natasha Martin fourth, and Zandrea Nelson sixth.

In the women's mile Utah Valley had four athletes that finished in the top 10 as Karinne Bentley led the way placing third, Shelise Walker finished fifth, Mary Nothum eighth, and Kalina Zufelt 10th. In the women's shot put Nicole Knighton finished second with a throw of 44'-06.25".

The Wolverine men were led by distance-runner Jared Keller as he won the men's 3000m run with a time of 8:42.39. Fellow distance-runner Danny Moody finished in the event right behind Keller as Moody placed second. Keller also led UVU in the mile run as he finished placing third in the event with a time of 4:16.69. Following behind Keller in the mile run was teammate Tim Rowberry who finished fourth.

At the Blue and Orange Invitational UVU competed against athletes from Boise State, Nevada, Utah State, Idaho State, Northwest Nazarene, Concordia, Mesa State, Eastern Oregon, and Warner Pacific. For complete results see the attached link at the top of this page.

Utah Valley will have a week off of action before traveling to Pocatello, Idaho on Feb. 6 and 7 to compete at the Mountain States Games.