EUGENE, ORE. – Arizona Track and Field travel up to Eugene to battle the rest of the conference at the Pac-12 Championships. Last year, the Wildcats finished with three event winners including current Wildcat Samantha Noennig, who won the women's shot put.

49 athletes will compete at the Championships including Shannon Meisberger, Talie Bonds, Lillian Lowe, Skylar Sieben, and Samantha Noennig, who place in the top-25 in the NCAA in their events as they head into the end of the season.

The Cats will duel several teams ranked within the USTFCCCA top-25. On the men's side they will face No. 7 Oregon, No. 8 USC, No. 11 Stanford, No. 19 Washington, No. 22 Arizona State and No. 25 California, while the women will compete against No. 9 Oregon, No. 15 Washington, No. 16 Arizona State, No. 18 Stanford, No. 21 USC, No.24 California, and No. 25 Colorado.

A complete recap of the meet will be posted to ArizonaWildcats.com. You can also follow @ArizonaTrack on twitter throughout the day for live updates.
 
In their last competition, the Wildcats competed at home in the Desert Heat Classic at Roy P. Drachman Stadium.  Shannon Meisberger led the way by bringing home another event win with a time of 57.15 in the 400m hurdles. 

Noennig put up two top-five performances at the Desert Heat Classic. In the discus, she placed fourth with a mark of 53.95m (177'0") while also finishing second in the shot put with a 17.47m throw (57'-3.75"). The high jump squad continued to dominate with three Cats in the top-three. Alexa Porpaczy won the event with a 1.78m jump with Lillian Lowe and Diana Ramos tying for third.

Katie Daily followed suit by tying for second in the women's pole vault with a 3.85m vault. Tanner Kippes logged a huge PR in the pole vault with a sixth-place finish on a vault of 5.20m.

Jenica Bosko put up the eight-best mark in school history in the long jump with a second-place PR mark of 6.10m (20'-0.25"). Three men's long jumpers landed in the top-seven with Reinaldo Rodrigues jumping a third-place mark of 7.57m followed by Razeen Khaldun tying his PR in sixth and Jacorey Jones jumping a season-best to place seventh.

Talie Bonds put up a great time for the Cats with a second-place finish in the 100m hurdles with a 13.25. Freshman Zachary Extine placed fourth with a new PR of 14.39 in the 110m hurdles.

Women's Side
Dior Asemota, Talie Bonds, Jenica Bosko, Maddy Christopher, Katie Daily, Ava David, Grace Driskill, Anna Foreman, Grace Hala'ufia, Neysia Howard, Meggie Karp, Ajaysha Lewis, Lillian Lowe, Alisa Lyesina, Shannon Meisberger, Johnnie Mitchell, Presley Money, Athena Montgomery, Samantha Noennig, Mackenna Orie, Rylee Perkins, Tiana Poirier-Shelton, Alexa Porpaczy, Hollan Powers, Diana Ramos, Skylar Sieben
Men's Side
Jaisen Brown, Jakob Chamberlin, Zachary Extine, Dominic Gehr, Carl Hicks, Jacorey Jones, Jacob Kauffman, Razeen Khaldun, Timothy Kibet, Tanner Kippes, Youssef Koudssi, Zach Landa, Diego Marquez, Jared O'Riley, Reinaldo Rodrigues, Ian Sanchez Lopez, Iker Sanchez Lopez, Ayden Schilb, Trent Stimac, Trayvion White-Austin, Maj Williams, Calvin Wilson, Ivan Zaharchenko


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