Pepperdine Heads to Northridge for Outdoor Meet

MALIBU, California – The Pepperdine men's and women's track teams are back in action after a two-week break and will race at the CSUN Invitational on Saturday, April 2.

MEET DETAILS

The meet is hosted by CSUN at the Matador Track & Field Complex in Northridge, Calif. The running events will begin at 10:00 a.m.

LAST MEET

The Waves finished their third outdoor meet at the Oxy Distance Carnival and Spring Break Classic on March 12 and Karl Winter and Kyle McCabe competed in the Astro Ai Distance Carnival on March 11.

Sophomore Ryan Hemphill (Visalia, Calif./Redwood HS) highlighted the Oxy Distance Carnival and Spring Break Classic with a second-place finish in the 800 meters, collecting a time of 1:53.61, which was a personal record and also only 2.14 seconds away from the school record. Sophomore William Watkins (Mill Valley, Calif./Marin Catholic HS) competed in the 400 meters and ran in a time of 50.48, which was a personal record. Junior Jaad Abduljawad (Jeddah, Saudi Arabia/Cal Coast Academy) was the top performer for the men in the 100 meters, collecting a time of 11.36.

Freshman Kaley Peterson (Sunnyvale, Calif./Saint Francis High School) had the top time for Pepperdine in the 400 meters, crossing the finish line at 59.51, which was good for fifth place. Peterson also competed in the 100 meters and was the Waves top performer notching a time of 12.69. Senior Tiffany Egbo (Gilbert, Ariz./Highland HS) also competed in the 400 meters and won her heat in a time of 1:00.52. Junior Skyler Danley (Easton, Pa./Easton Area HS) had a fifth-place finish in her debut in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, clocking in at 11:48.13.

Seniors Karl Winter (Stockton, Calif./Saint Mary's HS) and Kyle McCabe (Westminster, Colo./Family HS) each set new school records at the Astro Ai Distance Carnival. Winter, who set the 5,000 meter record in 2021, beat his record by notching a time of 13.57.52. His time that he collected was 30.6 seconds faster than his previous record of 14:31.58. Winter also marked a first-place finish in the 5,000 meters. McCabe broke his own school record in the 10,000 meters finishing in a time of 29:45.99, which was 38.24 seconds faster than his own previous record that he set last year in 2021 in a time of 30:24.23.

Winter also raced in the Bob Larsen Distance Carnival hosted by UCLA last weekend and set another new school record. He ran in the outdoor one mile and finished in a time of 4:02.81, which beat the school record by 1.99 seconds that was set in 1970.

QUOTABLE

Head coach Lauren Floris said: "It's been awesome to have a bit of a break since our last race at OXY. All our runners have had a solid three weeks of training and they are ready to run some fast marks this weekend at CSUN. It's also exciting to be racing so close to home and I know that we'll have a lot of fan support there this weekend which is always nice."

UP NEXT

The Waves will head south of Malibu and compete at the Triton Invitational hosted by UC San Diego in La Jolla, Calif., on Saturday, April 9.

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Players Mentioned

Jaad Abduljawad

Skyler Danley

Tiffany Egbo

Ryan Hemphill

Kyle McCabe

Kaley Peterson

William Watkins

Karl Winter

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