The women’s track and field team may have sent a scaled-back squad to the Mount SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif., but those who did go had memorable performances in the four-day competition.
Redshirt junior Britney Henry shattered Oregon’s previous hammer throw record with a season-best throw of 221-7. Her throw, good for second behind New York Athletic Club’s Erin Gilreath (228-8), easily surpassed her previous season high and school record of 208-7, set in the Oregon Preview. She came within 2 feet and 1 inch of her personal best of 223-8, which she achieved last season when Henry competed unattached.
Brittany Hinchcliffe also competed for the Ducks and placed 12th with a throw of 190-3.
Staying close to her Pepsi Invitational performance, javelin thrower Rachel Yurkovich placed seventh with a throw of 161-7. The winner, Danish thrower Christina Scherwin, made a throw of 195-11. Yurkovich placed fourth among collegiate competitors including Akron’s Ashley Kaufman (third, 177-2), Air Force’s Dana Pounds (fourth, 174-2) and Georgia’s Krista Woodward (sixth, 161-7).
Yurkovich earned first the previous weekend in the Pepsi Invitational with a throw of 163-10.
Both Oregon heptathletes Lauryn Jordan and Kalindra McFadden met NCAA provisional marks in the second portion of their competition. McFadden earned 5,428 points to finish third and Jordan came in two points behind in fourth place.
The NCAA provisional standard is 5,000 points and the automatic standard is 5,500. McFadden finished first among college athletes. The event winner, Reidun Wallin of ASC Elite with 5,580, won by 112 points over the next closest competitor, Pocatello Elite’s Jackie Poulson, who had 5,468.
Jordan started the second day of competition in first place. She posted marks of 20-11 1/4 in the long jump, 2 minutes 36.74 seconds in the 800 meters and 104-1 in the javelin on day two. McFadden made marks of 18-0 1/2 in the long jump and 128-6 in the javelin.
Jordan opened the competition Wednesday with marks of 14.34 in the 100-meter hurdles, 5-7 1/4 in the high jump, 37-0 1/2 in the shot put and 24.59 in the 200. The 200 was Jordan’s heptathlete best by .66 of a second.
McFadden held her own with marks of 14.64 in the 100 hurdles, 5-2 1/2 in the high jump, 40-7 in the shot put and 25.01 in the 200.
The pair’s performances moved Jordan higher in Oregon’s record books and inserted McFadden’s name for the first time. Jordan is now sixth all-time and McFadden is fifth on a list led by current Oregon assistant coach Kelly Blair LaBounty (6,038, 1993).

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