2010 Track & Field Season In Review
4/24/2010 12:00:00 AM | Track
MALIBU, Calif. - Pepperdine's men's and women's track and field head coach Robert Radnoti honored his teams' efforts and highlighted the new school record holders at the annual year-end awards banquet held Friday night in the Jones Trophy Room.
"This season was another one of growth for our team," Radnoti said. "On the men's side our young runners performed very well with improvements in nearly every race for each student, and on the women's side we were pleased with the continued progress of our returners and newcomers. 2010 was a good year for Pepperdine track and field and 2011 promises to be even better."
Five varsity records were broken over the course of the 2010 season by four of Radnoti's student-athletes, led by junior Chelsea Wishard (Lawai, Hawai'i/Kauai HS) who lowered the standards in the 1500m and 3000m runs. Wishard broke the school's record in the 3K with a time of 10:04.01 at the Cal State Northridge Invitational, and two weeks later clocked a personal best 4:39.35 in the 1500m at UCLA's Cal-Nevada Championships.
Wishard, who has placed third at the last two West Coast Conference Cross Country Championships, enters her final year as a Wave in 2010-11 also holding the varsity record in the 800m (2:19.70).
On the men's side, two of Radnoti's freshmen Sean King (Potomac, Md./Winston Churchill HS) and Wesley Blundell (Brush Prairie, Wash./Prairie HS) set varsity records in the 800m and 10K, respectively.
King first broke the school's 800m record at the Cal-Nevada Championships with a time of 1:55.1, but then further lowered his mark two weeks later at the UCLA Invitational after finishing his race seventh in 1:55.33.
King recorded Pepperdine's top six times in the 800m and its top four marks in the 1500m, but finished just .36 seconds shy of matching Chris Ogle's school record of 3:59.28 in that event at last week's Mt. SAC Relays.
Blundell served as the Waves' top distance runner, recording the club's top times in the 10K and 5K. He established the school's 10K record of 32:13.13 at the Cal-Nevada Championships and clocked a personal best 5K mark of 15:25.68 two weeks later at the UCLA Invite.
In the field events, junior thrower Aneka Myles (Victorville, Calif./Silverado HS) continued to show improvement for the third consecutive year and broke her own school record in the shot put with a toss of 35-9 at the Northridge Invitational. Myles' discus record of 111-1 was posted at last year's Pomona-Pitzer Invitational.
