Waves Set New Personal Records and Climb All-Time List at UC Riverside Invitational

Saturday, September 17

Riverside, Calif.

7:15 a.m. PT

Pepperdine University

UC Riverside Invitational

Will Bullock

Photo by: Jeff Golden

Waves Set New Personal Records and Climb All-Time List at UC Riverside Invitational

9/17/2022 1:01:00 PM | Cross Country

Results

By: by Athletic Communications

RIVERSIDE, California – In just the second race of the season there was a morning full of personal records for the Pepperdine men's and women's cross country teams on Saturday at the UC Riverside Invitational as graduate student Will Bullock, sophomore Megan LaCamera, freshman Joshua Bergers and freshman Abby Winter led the men and women in the four faces.

Additionally, Bullock and Elias Spence each marked their name on the Pepperdine men's 8K all-time list, while LaCamera moved up four spots on the women's 6K all-time list.

Bullock placed 84th out of 257 runners in the men's invitational in a time of 24:57.3, which puts him 13th on the all-time lists. Spence collected a time of 25:22.5, which was also 37.2 seconds faster than his personal best and notches him the 18th spot all-time. The men only had four runners in the 8K invitational and did not score. Bergers led the Waves in the men's open 8K with a 21st-place showing in a time of 25:32.0, which was only three seconds from 20th on the all-time list. This was Bergers' Pepperdine debut.

On the women's side, LaCamera led the Waves in the women's invitational placing 138th out of 268 runners. Her time of 22:18.0 is a new personal record by 10.1 seconds and moved her from 17th all-time to 13th all-time. Winter led Pepperdine in the women's open 5K with a 42nd-place finish in a time of 18:58.5, which beat her first 5K time by more than two minutes. The women's team placed 30th out of 34 teams (23rd among Division I teams).

Both the men's and women's team had a combined 19 runners set new personal records for themselves.

WOMEN'S 6K INVITATIONAL LEADERS

Sophomore Megan LaCamera (Burbank, Calif./Burbank HS) 22:18.0, 138th overall, beat her personal record by 10.1 seconds and moved from 17th all-time to 13th.
Senior Olivia Miller (Tallahassee, Fla./Lawton Chiles HS) 23:07.8, 208th overall.
Junior Elle Shrader (Boerne, Texas/Boerne-Samuel V Champions HS) 23:12.8, 214th overall, beat her personal record by one minute and 32.2 seconds.
Senior Skyler Danley (Easton, Pa./Easton Area HS) 23:15.7, 218th overall.
Sophomore Eden Mittelsdorf (Nashville, Tenn./Brentwood HS) 23:42.3, 237th overall.
Junior Skylar Davis (Savannah, Ga./Savannah Arts Academy) 24:12.6, 248th overall, beat her personal record by 12.5 seconds.

MEN'S 8K INVITATIONAL LEADERS

Graduate student Will Bullock (Marrieta, Ga./Kennesaw Mountain HS/Eastern Illinois) 24:57.3, 84th overall, and notched his name 13th on the all-time list.
Sophomore Elias Spence (Shippensburg, Pa./Shippensburg Area HS) 25:22.5, 137th overall, beat his personal record by 37.2 seconds and marked his name 18th on the all-time list.
Junior Nate Lannen (Southlake, Texas/Carroll HS) 26:24.6, 220th overall.
Junior Ryan Hemphill (Visalia, Calif./Redwood HS) 26:40.4, 234th overall, beat his personal record by one minute and 0.6 seconds.

WOMEN'S NOTABLE

Freshmen Savannah Shaw (Downingtown, Pa./Downingtown STEM Academy), Faith Talbott (McKinneny, Texas/McKinney Boyd HS), Hannah Renager (Clifton, Va./James W. Robinson Secondary School), Nicole Hartung (Santa Clarita, Calif./Saugus HS) and Hannah Doering (Yorba Linda, Calif./Orange Lutheran HS) each beat their 5K personal records in the women's open.
Sophomore CeCe Fleenor (Alexandria, Va./Bishop O'Connell HS) beat her 5K personal record in the women's open collecting a time of 20:57.2, which was 0.8 seconds faster than her previous record.
Freshman Ashley Eagan (St. Petersburg, Fla./St. Petersburg HS) made her Waves debut in the women's open 5K crossing the finish line in a time of 20:32.7.

MEN'S NOTABLE

Freshmen Patrick Thomas (Paso Robles, Calif./Mission College Prep), Spencer Mueller (Fresno, Calif./Clovis North HS), Kai Newman (Temecula, Calif./Linfield Christian HS), Ryan Fabian (Oxnard, Calif./Oxnard HS) and Daniel Whitaker (Lexington, Ky./Lafayette HS) beat their personal records in the men's open 8K.
Sophomore Jakob Knox (Bend, Ore./Bend Senior HS) set a new personal record with a time of 27:32.1 in the men's open 8K.

QUOTABLE

Head coach Lauren Floris said: "Our team always show up at UCR! It was incredible to see everyone's performances which included lots of PRs, and across the board solid improvements on our season opener. We ran all our freshmen in the open races to give them the chance to shine and they rose to the occasion. I'm especially impressed by Abby, Savannah, Joshua and Patrick's performances! Watch out for them to join our top 7 as we combine the groups going forward."

UP NEXT

The Waves will have one week off before hosting the Waves Invitational on Saturday, Oct. 1, for the first time since 2017. The meet will begin at 9 a.m. Prior to the first collegiate race there will be a community 5K. The Waves Invitational will take place at the picturesque Alumni Park.