The Regals track and field team closed out the decade with a runner-up finish in the SCIAC in 2009 after taking third in 2008, breaking a streak of three consecutive fifth place finishes. The team began the new decade with a second consecutive runner-up placing in 2010.
CLU track and field team members Chris Brouillette and Toccoa Kahovec have been selected to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District VIII Team, announced earlier today.
Cal Lutheran track and field team members Eric Flores and Christa Youngern became United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Americans with their finishes at the National Championship meet this past weekend. Flores won the hammer throw title while Youngern earned runner-up in the hammer and eighth in the discus.
Christa Youngern wrapped up competition for Cal Lutheran participants at the three-day 2010 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday with an eighth place finish in the discus for her second All-American finish of the meet. On Friday Youngern and Eric Flores both took part in the shot put event and posted qualifying marks that kept them out of the finals.
On the first day of the 2010 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Cal Lutheran junior Eric Flores claimed the national title in the men's hammer throw in dominant fashion with an NCAA DIII championship record throw of 217 feet, 8 inches (66.25 meters) on Thursday. In the women's hammer throw, senior Christa Youngern used a mark of 186 feet, 11 inches (56.99 meters) to finish as the national runner-up, less than two feet shy of the first place throw.
CLU track and field team member Eric Flores and Assistant Coach Lucais MacKay were selected as U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Division III West Region Male Field Athlete and Women's Assistant Coach of the Year, announced earlier this week.
The Cal Lutheran men's and women's track and field teams will be sending six athletes to the 2010 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Berea, Ohio, May 26-28. The meet entries were announced early Sunday morning.
The CLU athletics department will be honoring its finest athletes over the past 10 years by releasing Cal Lutheran All-Decade Teams throughout the upcoming summer. The reigning SCIAC Champion football team will be the first of 19 programs to have its all-decade team announced, schedule to be released on Monday, May 24.
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