Women place second, men fourth at C2C Outdoor Championships

Friday, May 6

Newport News, VA

UC Santa Cruz Athletics

Coast-To-Coast Outdoor Championships

Women place second, men fourth at C2C Outdoor Championships

5/7/2022 11:59:00 AM | Men's Track and Field

Five school records set, ten conference champions crowned for UC Santa Cruz

NEWPORT NEWS, VA - UC Santa Cruz traveled to Virginia to compete in the 2022 Coast-To-Coast Outdoor Track & Field Conference Championships hosted by Christopher Newport University.

The women took titles in six of the 19 events to finish with 125 total points and placed second - two places better than their C2C debut in 2021. The men finished with 116 points, which was good for fourth place.

The host Captains won both the men's and women's team titles.

After a weather delay Friday afternoon moved the men's 10,000 meter race to the dawn's early light of Saturday, Super Senior Sean Riedel made the most of the extra rest and won the race with a PR of 33:07.22. It was 31 seconds better than the second-place runner and improved on Riedel's Conference runner-up finish last year in Salisbury, Maryland.

Ethan Bizzack was the first UC Santa Cruz runner to run under 50 seconds in the 400m, winning the Conference Title with a school-record 49.95.

On the women's side, Amaya Cummins finished off an amazing freshman year by adding the Conference's 100m and 200m titles to the 60m dash indoor title she won in February. She did the dash double in style, with school records of 12.44 in the 100 and 25.86 in the 200 to earn Female Track Athlete of the Meet.

Other Conference Champions included-

Cummins teamed with Chloe Solomua, Zoe Johnson and Abby McPhillips to win the 4x100 relay in a school-record 49.15, 1.67 seconds better than the second-placed Captains.
The women's 4x400 relay quartet -McPhillips, Sophia Cervantes Llamas, Caroleene Block and Solomua - repeated as Conference Champs with a time of 4:11.33.
The men's 4x400 team of Bizzack, Cole Pena, Rowan Davis and Aaron Hillberg won a close race in 3:24.74, surging ahead on the second leg when the closest team dropped the baton right before the exchange.
McPhillips also repeated as outdoor High Jump Champion, clearing 1.60m (5ft 3in )
School-record holder Eric Jackson won the 5000m in 14:40.4, a new Conference Meet record.
Ash Baudin ran away with the 3000m Steeplechase title in 11:30.34.

Other standouts included Riley Martel-Phillips, who was runner-up in both the women's 1500m and 5000m, and Camden Hebert, who turned in a PR of 9:52.62 to place second in the men's 3000m Steeplechase.

The Banana Slugs return to California for their final meets of the regular season next week.