Junior pentathlete Lauryn Jordan, senior long jumper Leonidas
Watson, junior heptathlete Ryan Voge and the men’s 4×400 relay team all qualified for NCAA provisional marks this past weekend.
Juniors Travis Anderson and Matt Scherer and seniors Kedar Inico and Roderick Dotts finished second to Arizona State at the Mountain T’s Invitational in Flagstaff, Ariz., in the men’s 4×400. The Ducks’ 3-minute, 7.55-second mark easily bested the NCAA provisional mark of 3:10.40 and was only seconds off the automatic qualifying mark of 3:06.10.
In Moscow, Idaho, Jordan
bested the provisional pentathlon mark of 3,700 points with
a 3,788 second-place finish to
Idaho’s Manuela Kurrat.
Also at the McDonald’s Collegiate in Idaho, Voge, a Hillsboro native, bested the NCAA provisional mark of 5,200 heptathlon points with his winning 5,238-point score. Voge, whose total was a personal best, will likely need closer to 5,500 points to qualify for the national indoor meet.
Also at the NCAA Indoor All-American, Watson won the meet’s long jump competition with a leap of 25 feet, 2 inches. Watson moved up to third on the NCAA’s provisional list with his victorious jump.
Duck athletes continue their indoor season next week in Boise, Idaho, Seattle and Ames, Iowa.

Beau Eastes is a freelance reporter for the Daily Emerald