Moran, van Klinken Win Pac-12 Titles

WALNUT, Calif. – Shelby Moran and Jorinde van Klinken won Pac-12 titles in the hammer and shot put, respectively, for the Women of Oregon on day two of the 2023 Pac-12 Championships. The UO women scored 50 points Saturday and currently sit in second place in the team standings with 55 points. In the men’s competition, the Ducks enter the final day in fourth place with 35 points.
 
The Ducks are scheduled to have a combined 42 scoring opportunities—27 women, 15 men—Sunday at Hilmer Lodge Stadium.
 
Up Next: Day three of the Pac-12 Championships will air on the Pac-12 Network beginning at 1 p.m. (PT) with the 4×100-meter relays. The Ducks’ day gets started before the broadcast with Jonah Tactay in the men’s triple jump.
 
Moran wasted no time Saturday afternoon with a school-record measure on her first attempt. She got the hammer out to 69.28m/226-3, a mark that stayed atop the standings for the remainder of the day. The Sherwood, Ore., native topped the 17-year-old UO record of 67.54m/221-7 set in 2006 by Britney Henry.
 
All six of Moran’s throws Saturday eclipsed her season best of 66.60 meters from last week’s Oregon Twilight, including three beyond the previous school record. Moran becomes the third UO woman to win a conference title in the hammer, joining Henry (2007) and Jillian Weir (2014).
 
For a second-consecutive year, van Klinken and Jaida Ross finished 1-2 in the Pac-12 shot put but this time around, van Klinken was wearing an Oregon kit. Now a two-time champion in the event, she got also broke the school record with her toss of 18.59m/61-0 in round two. Ross wasn’t far behind with a day’s best of 18.46m/60-6.75 on her first attempt of the afternoon.
 
The win for van Klinken was the third in program history, and first since Brittany Mann went back-to-back in 2015 and 2016. The Ducks got their final point in the event from Mine De Klerk in eighth place.
 
All four are back in action Sunday for the discus where van Klinken is the two-time defending champ.
 
The Men of Oregon got in on the scoring Saturday with nine points in the decathlon. In his debut at the Pac-12 meet, freshman Rafael Raap scored 7,695 points to finish as the conference runner-up. He was aided on day two by a season best in the discus and a lifetime best of 59.61m/195-7 in the javelin. Raap led after nine events but was overtaken by Washington’s Oliver Thorner in the 1500 meters.
 
Coupled with Pac-12 results and national marks entering the day,…