Crossing the finish line

The Portland State track and field teams set new records at the Husky Classic over the weekend, and are now ready to send 12 student-athletes to the Big Sky Indoor Championship later this month.

Sophomores Geronne Black and Tony Crisofulli led the Vikings pack at the meet. Crisofulli broke the school record and recorded the Big Sky Conference’s top time in the 800-meter with a time of 1 minute, 50.82 seconds. Black clocked the conference’s top time in the 60m with 7.58 seconds.

Black has consistently dropped her times throughout the season, and she is the third fastest in school history.

Freshman Nathan Lightner, who marked third fastest in the PSU record book for the 400m, saw his season end after clocking in at 49.26 seconds—just one-hundredth of a second short of qualification.

In only his second meet of the season, senior Jordan Brown competed in the triple jump for the first time this year and qualified with a mark of 45 feet, 5.75 inches—recording the school’s third-longest distance in the process.

The first Viking to compete in the 5,000m this season was junior Katie Blue, who qualified with a time of 18:26.26 to earn the second spot in the school’s books for the event.

The 4x400m relay teams both cut their qualifying times. The women clocked in at 3:55.53 to record the fifth-best in the records, and the men cut their time by nearly 12 seconds to make 3:24.00 their season best.

Up next for the Portland State track teams is the Big Sky Indoor Championship in Bozeman, Mont., on Feb. 26–27.