Nelson qualifies for Olympic Trials, Cyclones set personal bests
Photo: Rebekka Brown/Iowa State
Dani Stack (left) and Meaghan Nelson participated in the women’s 5,000-meter run. Stack finished fourth with a time of 15:57.20, and Nelson finished third with a time of 15:51.89.
April 8, 2012
After a weekend of three meets, multiple personal records and one Olympic Trial qualifying time, the women’s track and field team is headed back to Ames with its head high.
One of the meets the Cyclone women competed in this weekend was the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif. This meet is highly famous for its specialization of distance athletes that compete there.
The biggest news coming out of California was junior Meaghan Nelson qualifying for the Olympic Trials in the women’s 10,000-meter run, which is set to take place in June. Her time of 32:33.40 was the fastest debut time set by a Cyclone.
Junior Ejiro Okoro ran her own personal record of 2:05.02 in the women’s 800-meter run, in which she placed fourth overall.
ISU alumna Lisa Uhl placed second in the fast heat of the women’s 5,000-meter run at Stanford.
In other news in the South at the Sun Angel Classic, throwers Hayli Bozarth and Danielle Frere both finished in the top 10 for the women’s hammer throw.
At the San Francisco Distance Carnival, redshirt freshman Maddy Becker ran her own personal record of 17:13 in the women’s 5K.
Action continues next weekend at the Jim Duncan Invitational in Des Moines.
