Arkansas Wrap-Up

Last weekend we send half our team to the John McDonnell Invite at the University of Arkansas. The other half stayed in town and competed at the Wisconsin Lutheran Warrior Relays. You can check out the GoMarquette.com recap as well as find results here. At Arkansas, the team had to deal with a thunderstorm and a 45 min delay during the middle of the meet. We had several strong performances, but we are still looking for the big breakthrough from a number of areas. Time is running out as we only have one more meet before the BIG EAST meet on May 1-3.

Here are a few pictures from Arkansas…

Senior Nick Van Deraa tied his outdoor PR with a vault of 15-1. Nick also anchored the 4x400m relay to a season best time of 3:15.73 with a spilt of 48.8.

Junior Jayne Grabinski improved her PR in the Steeplechase to 10:34.15. That mark is #2 in school history behind All-American Brianna Dahm. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel did a nice piece on Jayne in the Thursday April 23 edition. Check it out here.

Junior Michael O'Brien continued his consistent season running 54.59 in the 400 Hurdles. Mike also split 48.5 running the 3rd leg of the 4x400 that ran a seasons best time of 3:15.75.

Sophomore Alyssa Davis jumped 38'9.75" in the triple jump. That is the second best jump of Alyssa's career.

Sophomore Tyler O'Brien ran a season's best 200m with a time of 21.73 in a downpour (the rain is the reason for a smaller number of pictures this week). The meet was suspended for about 45 minutes due to lightening shortly after Tyler's race. Tyler came back later in the meet to lead off the 4x400m relay with a split of 49.4 and help the team run a season best time of 3:15.75.