Women's Track and Field

It's Back-to-Back for Ourega, Warwick Skims to Award

ART U's All-American Marie-Jeanne Ourega wins consecutive Field Athlete of the Week certificates. APU's Nicole Warwick posts the second fastest 100 hurdle time in the country for Track Athlete of the Week.

It's Marie-Jeanne Ourega again for Field Athlete of the Week. APU's Nicole Warwick flies over the hurdles to win Track Athlete of the Week.

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TRACK ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Azusa Pacific's Nicole Warwick, Multi's, 5-6, Sr., Modesto, Calif.                        
Azusa Pacific's Nicole Warwick won the 100 hurdles at the Pomona-Pitzer Invitational with red-hot time of 13.55 last Saturday. That is the second fastest time in NCAA Division II this year. Warwick also owns the best long jump thus far in Division II (20-5 3/4), set back in mid-February. The four-time outdoor All-American and 2023 indoor pentathlon national champion is a 10-time All-PacWest performer and three-time PacWest champion.

FIELD ATHLETE OF THE WEEK: Academy of Art's Maire-Jeanne Ourega, Jumps, 5-7, Jr., L'Hay-les-Roses, France
Academy of Art's Marie-Jeanne Ourega bettered her award-winning long jump from one week earlier to claim the Field Athlete of the Week award again. The French woman went 19-7 last week and flew past that mark this week at the Brutus Hamilton Invitational meet in Berkeley. Ourega won the event with a mark of 20-2.5 (6.16M), topping 17 other competitors including 11 Division I athletes. That bested the NCAA Division II provisional qualifying mark and is the fourth longest jump in D-II this season. 
 
PACWEST NEWS AND NOTES: PacWest athletes recorded some fast times on the track last weekend...Biola's Susanne Bruennig raced to a time of 10:44.02 in the steeplechase, the tenth fastest mark in the NCAA this year...Academy of Art's Katharina Goetschl circled the track in 16:40.54 in the five kilometers to win the race at Cal-Berkeley. That ranks seventh in Division II and ranks third all-time at ART U...Point Loma's Madelynn Worley broke a 32-year old school record in the 100 meters, racing to a time of 11.94.
 
LOOKING AHEAD: PacWest teams will be competing at four different meets this coming week, beginning Thursday and running through Saturday--the Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific, the Long Beach Invitational, a meet at San Francisco State and a event at CS Los Angeles.

PacWest Championships: The 2024 conference meet will be hosted by Westmont in Santa Barbara this year, April 26-27. Azusa Pacific will be chasing their eighth consecutive team titles for both men and women.