Trice, Gnepa Punch Tickets To NCAA Championships At Arkansas
Jazz Trice and Polly Gnepa became the first two UC Davis track and field athletes to qualify for the NCAA Championship finals since the program move to Division I last year, advancing in the 110-meter high hurdles at the West Regional at the University of Oregon on Saturday.
Trice and Gnepa finished third and fifth, respectively, in the high hurdles, garnering a top-five finish which guaranteed them a berth in the national championships at the University of Arkansas on June 10-14.
Trice was timed in 13.57 seconds while Gnepa crossed in 13.75 during the wind-aided race. Myles Bradley of Stanford took regional honors with a winning time of 13.53. | | 
Hurdlers Advance To Lead Aggies At Regional
UC Davis junior Sirena Williams qualified for Saturday's 100-meter hurdle finals in school-record time while Polly Gnepa, Jazz Trice and Alex Wilright advanced in hurdles events for the Aggie men during the first day of the NCAA Division I West Region Championships at the University of Oregon on Friday.
Gnepa and Trice qualified in the 110 high hurdles while Wilright moved on in the 400 hurdles. The quartet led 11 Aggie competitors in action on Friday, six of them racing in prelims and the remainder in finals either on the track or in the field. | | 
Jackson In Fifth In Hepathlon At Big West Multis
UC Davis' Anikia Jackson scored 2,891 points and is fifth after the first day of the heptathlon at the Big West Multi-Event Championships at UC Irvine while the Aggies' Will Guthrie tallied 3,477 after five events in the decathlon and is in seventh.
Jackson is joined by teammate Johanne Boulat in the hepathlon with Boulat in 11th after the opening day after scoring 2,400 points. UC Davis freshman Robert Neely had 3,275 in Friday's decathlon events and is 12th heading into Saturday's final five events.
Barbara Nwaba of UC Santa Barbara leads the heptathlon with 3,250 points while Robert Robinson of Cal State Northridge scored 3,909 points to take the midway lead of the heptathlon. | |
