LA JOLLA, Calif. – The CSUSB Coyotes scored 25 points at the CCAA Championships at UC San Diego over the weekend, their best performance at the conference championships in school history, beating their 22 points in 2016. The Yotes finished 10th, but were just seven points from the seventh spot.
The top finisher for CSUSB was Jordan Munford in the 100 meter hurdles, as she set the school record at 14.13 taking the runner-up spot. She hit the NCAA Division II Provisional mark in her prelims and finals, and stands 27th in the nation in the event.
Maya Price tied the school record and set her personal best with a third-place finish in the high jump at 5'3.75". She joined Munford on the All-CCAA team and became the first freshman in program history to be All-Conference.
Victoria Soto took 12th in the discus at 131'3", setting a school record and Valentina Sanabria set a school record in the long jump at 17'5.50", taking 10th in the event. Arianna Fuentes scored for CSUSB in the 3000 meter steeplechase, taking fifth at 11:19.06 and Kaylie Balvaneda scored in the 5000 meters, finishing sixth at 17:57.60.
Additionally, Tori Wiley set her personal best in the heptathlon with 3846 points, scoring for the Yotes, and setting the number two all-time score at CSUSB. The 4x400 relay team of Makenzie Matteson, Savannah Milner, Sanabria, and Price set the second-best time at CSUSB at 4:00.05, taking seventh, scoring two points. The 4x100 relay team of Destiny Colton, Sanabria, Wiley, and Price earned a point for taking eighth at 49.21, the fifth-best time in program history. Finally, Wiley finished 14th in the javelin at 104'6", marking the second-best throw in school history.
"I am so proud of this team. They have experienced so much adversity this season," head coach Lauren Reimer-Podgaysky said. "This team really came together, stepped up, and performed at their best at the CCAA Championships. The program is growing in the right direction and is becoming a bigger force in the CCAA. I look forward to the future and what the program will become in the upcoming years."