CASCADE CONFERENCE MULTI-EVENT CHAMPIONSHIPS (La Grande, Ore.)
10 a.m. Thursday / 10 a.m. Friday | MEET CENTRAL
 
RAIDER INVITATIONAL (Ashland, Ore.)
3 p.m. Friday / 10 a.m. Saturday | MEET CENTRAL

ASHLAND – While two Raiders compete at the Cascade Conference Multi-Event Championships, the rest of the Southern Oregon University track and field team will be on display at its annual home meet Friday and Saturday in the Raider Invitational.

Junior heptathlete Abi Stevens, a nine-time All-American, and freshman decathlete Coleton Urquhart are SOU's representatives at the CCC Multis on Thursday and Friday in La Grande. Stevens – who placed fourth in the heptathlon at last year's NAIA Outdoor Championships and third in the pentathlon at this year's NAIA Indoor Championships – is aiming for her first conference title. She was the runner-up in 2023 to British Columbia's Rebecca Dutchak, who is also back at the meet. Dutchak currently owns the NAIA's top heptathlon score (5,029) while Stevens has yet to complete one this spring.

At Raider Stadium, Friday's events start at 3 p.m. in the field and 6 p.m. on the track, and Saturday's start at 10 a.m. in the field and noon on the track.

The Raiders are coming off their best outing of the year, last week's Lewis & Clark Larry Byerly Invite. There, they got NAIA automatic-qualifying times in the men's 5,000 meters from Frankie Maciel and Mason Weisgerber; a provisional-qualifying time in the women's 5K from Alejandra Lopez; and a provisional-qualifying mark in the pole vault from Carson Le Bel.

SOU's top distance runners will compete in Friday night's 1,500 races, including Lopez, who also has an NAIA 'A' time in the 10K. In the field, SOU record-holder Andrew Mitchell will work on his mark of 221 feet 7 inches that stands as the second-best on the national performance list on Saturday afternoon, while Le Bel – who currently tops the CCC list and is No. 7 in the NAIA – attempts to turn his 'B' standard pole-vault mark (15-7 ¾) into an 'A.'

The complete meet schedules and SOU's current conference qualifier marks follow:

CCC CHAMPIONSHIPS MEN'S DECATHLON SCHEDULE
10 a.m. Thursday – 100m, Long Jump, Shot Put, High Jump, 400m
10 a.m. Friday – 110m Hurdles, Discus, Pole Vault, Javelin, 1,500m
*Succeeding events start 30 minutes after the conclusion of the previous event.

CCC CHAMPIONSHIPS WOMEN'S HEPTATHLON SCHEDULE
10:30 a.m. Thursday – 100m Hurdles, High Jump, Shot Put, 200m
10:15 a.m. Friday – Long Jump, Javelin, 800m
*Succeeding events start 30 minutes after the conclusion of the previous event.

RAIDER INVITATIONAL SCHEDULE
Friday Field Events
3 p.m. – Discus (women first, men to follow)
5 p.m. – Women's Pole Vault
5 p.m. – Triple Jump (men first, women to follow)

Friday Track Events
6 p.m. – Women's 200m
6:20 p.m. – Men's 200m
6:40 p.m. – Women's 1,500m
6:55 p.m. – Men's 1,500m
7:10 p.m. – Women's 5K
7:35 p.m. – Men's 5K

Saturday Field Events
10 a.m. – Men's Pole Vault
10 a.m. – Shot Put (women first, men to follow)
10 a.m. – Hammer (men first, women to follow)
10 a.m. – Long Jump (men first, women to follow)
10 a.m. – High Jump (women first, men to follow)
12 p.m. – Javelin

Saturday Track Events
12 p.m. – Women's 4x100m
12:10 p.m. – Men's 4x100m
12:15 p.m. – Women's 100m Hurdles
12:30 p.m. – Men's 110m Hurdles
12:50 p.m. – Women's 400m
1:05 p.m. – Men's 400m
1:15 p.m. – Women's 100m
1:30 p.m. – Men's 100m
1:40 p.m. – Women's 800m
1:50 p.m. – Men's 800m
2:05 p.m. – Women's 400m Hurdles
2:20 p.m. – Men's 400m Hurdles
2:30 p.m. – Women's 4x400m Relay
2:40 p.m. – Men's 4x400m Relay

CASCADE CONFERENCE QUALIFIER RANKINGS (% - denotes NAIA 'A' mark; ^ - denotes NAIA 'B')
SOU WOMEN
800m – 10. Sarah Mauk, 2:19.13; 13. Abi Stevens, 2:20.50
1,500m – 17. Cammeo Ramirez, 4:45.41
5,000m – 2. Alejandra Lopez, 17:36.30^; 4. Cammeo Ramirez, 17:48.55; 5. Alyssa Johnson, 17:55.11; 9. Haylee Brodahl, 18:26.24
10,000m – 3. Alejandra Lopez, 36:53.25%
110m Hurdles – 11. Abi Stevens, 15.48; 15. Sienna Bauer, 15.79
400m Hurdles – 3. India Ortiz, 1:05.52; 8. Gracie Freudenthal, 1:07.86
High Jump – 4. Abi Stevens, 1.65m (5-5)^
Pole Vault – 3. Katherine Martinez, 3.48m (11-5)
Long Jump – 3. Abi Stevens, 5.57m (18-3 ¼); 10. Sienna Bauer, 5.12m (16-9 ¾)
Triple Jump – 5. Sienna Bauer, 10.95m (35-11 ¼)
Discus – 2. Ilyhia Greely, 39.26m (128-10)
Hammer – 6. Ilyhia Greely, 45.97m (150-10)
Javelin – 12. Katherine Martinez, 35.84m (117-7)

SOU MEN
200m – 11. Garrett Chaffee, 22.29; 17. Dylan Heath, 22.66
400m – 3. Garrett Chaffee, 48.70
1,500m – 9. Frankie Maciel, 3:56.75; 13. Mason Weisgerber, 4:00.19
5,000m – 2. Frankie Maciel, 14:23.27%; 4. Mason Weisgerber, 14:32.55%
10,000m – 6. Frankie Maciel, 31:27.77
110m Hurdles – 5. Jayden Christy, 15.57; 9. Coleton Urquhart, 16.54
High Jump – 3. Carson Le Bel, 1.95m (6-4 ¾); 8. Jayden Christy, 1.86m (6-1 ¼)
Pole Vault – 1. Carson Le Bel, 4.77m (15-7 ¾)^; 3. Keith Sorenson, 4.53m (14-10 ¼)
Shot Put – 3. Luke King, 15.12m (49-7 ¼); 7. Kobe Johnson, 14.30m (46-11); 12. Andrew Mitchell, 12.98m (42-7); 13. Derrick Bennett, 12.48m (40-11 ½)
Discus – 2. Andrew Mitchell, 46.94m (154-0); 11. Luke King, 39.68m (130-2)
Hammer – 14. Derrick Bennett, 40.47m (132-9)
Javelin – 1. Andrew Mitchell, 67.53m (221-7)%