BERKELEY, Calif. –
NCAA Championship qualifiers Chandler Ault and Jonathan Birchman each posted top-10 marks in the nation this season as Washington had an impressive day of action at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational hosted by California.
Even with a smaller squad in action compared to last week’s outdoor opener at Stanford, Washington still had 17 athletes improve their marks from week one to week two. The group of jumpers, vaulters, throwers and sprinters also posted three new Top-10 marks in the program recordbooks.
Jumps
All-American Prestin Artis got going in the long jump for the first time in nearly a month, since his fifth-place finish at NCAA Indoors. Artis took just three attempts into a fierce headwind but had a solid opener of 24-9 ¼ to take third. Freshman Roman Hutchinson had a big season’s-best leap of 23-8 today for sixth-place.
Freshman Ava Washburn took fourth in the women’s long jump with her best mark in 2024, going 18-3 ¼ despite jumping into a -1.9 headwind.
In the triple jump, Lauren Heggen placed second and had the best wind-legal mark of her Husky career, as she went 40-10 ¼ into a headwind. That moves her up to No. 6 in school history outdoors.
Freshman Trevontay Smith got a second-straight victory in the men’s triple jump, backing up his PR last week with another strong jump of 50-7 ¼ into a headwind. Hutchinson was fifth at 46-1 ¼.
2023 Pac-12 co-Champs Sara Borton and Nastassja Campell went 2-3 in the pole vault, both making 13-7 ¼, while Avril Wilson was sixth going 12-9 ½. On the men’s side, Max Manson was third with a first-attempt clearance of 17-1 ¾, and Simon Park was fourth at 16-10.
Sophomore Leland Lieberg made 6-4 ¾ in the high jump for fourth-place.
Throws
Senior Chandler Ault had the best series of his career today to win the javelin competition with sophomore Jack Olsen taking second. Ault, the 2023 Pac-12 runner-up and a Second Team All-American, went over 70-meters on all six of his throws, and he had three throws farther than his old career-best of 237-feet. Ault went 241-1 in round two, then had his best of the day in round five at 243-3, then a final toss of 241-11.
That PR of 243-3 puts him ninth in the NCAA this season and ranks him sixth in school history.
Olsen had a season-best throw in his opening round, going 210-5. Brice Crider also finished fourth for the Dawgs with a PR of 196-9.
In the women’s javelin, senior Natalie…
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