It was a strategy of divide and conquer by the Simon Fraser University outdoor track and field team.
Middle distance runner Lindsey Butterworth ran the second-fastest time ever in the Great Northwest conference, winning her heat in the 1,500 metres at the Stanford University Invitational on Saturday.
Butterworth, recently named SFU’s co-female athlete of the week, was clocked in a fast time of 4:18.24 – the eighth-fastest time in NCAA Division II history and second overall amongst all the top runners in several heats at Stanford.
Clan milers Cameron Proceviat, Travis Vugteveen and Marc-Antoine Rouleau all made NCAA Div. II provisional qualify standards at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival.
Proceviat finished runner-up in a time of 4:05.25, just one-tenth of a second behind Kyle Medina of Chico State. Rouleau placed fourth and Vugteveen was sixth just seconds back.
Proceviat also made qualifying standard in the 800m, with a 1:51.61 clocking.
In long jump, SFU freshman Vladislav Tsygankov posted the sixth-best effort in Great Northwest history, winning the event with a leap of 7.31m.
Sophomore Ella Brown won the women’s triple jump in 11.42m.
Another second-year athlete, Oliver Jorgensen, ran a 14:32.19 time in the men’s 5,000m.
Senior Ryley Carr placed second in the women’s hammer throw with a toss of 46.01m on her fourth attempt at the Linfield College Jenn Boyman Memorial Invitational in Oregon on the same weekend.
