With the first weekend of February upon us, Lions athletes competing for their NCAA schools are another week closer to championship meets and this weekend’s results showed they are rounding in to form.
Staying undefeated this season was Colorado State junior Lauren Gale. The 400 metre specialist stepped down in distance as she took victory in the seldom run 55 metres at the Power Meet in Laramie, Wyoming. Gale’s winning time of 6.94 seconds ranks her fourth all-time in Colorado State history. Gale now holds top five school marks in four events indoors, including records in both the 400 metres and 4×400 metre relay.
Further east, at the Arkansas Qualifier, Keira Christie-Galloway continued to find her rhythm in the 60 metre hurdles. The Arizona State junior turned in a seasonal best performance of 8.31 seconds to finish fifth. The mark was a narrow improvement on her 8.32 clocking from a week ago. Christie-Galloway currently sits in 27th on the NCAA top list for this indoor season. As the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation indoor championships have been cancelled this year, the Glebe Collegiate grad will have one final meet next weekend at Texas Tech to post a top 16 performance if she is to qualify for March’s NCAA Championship. Currently, that cut-off is 8.21 seconds.
Rounding out the weekend’s participants was Kevin Robertson, who ran his first competitive mile at the Virginia Tech Elite meet in Blacksburg. The Syracuse University sophomore was fifth in his section with a time of four minutes and 15.86 seconds and placed 14th overall.