LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Occidental Track & Field competed at the SCIAC Championships April 26-27 at Jack Kemp Stadium. 

DAY 1

While most events completed prelims on Saturday, Emerson Ames headlined the day as the SCIAC Champion in the long jump. His meet-best 6.81 was .4 meters better than his previous mark that was 13th best in the SCIAC. 

His teammate Oliver Yue earned an All-SCIAC second place finish. The 4th-ranked long jumper in the conference went 6.77 meters on his final jump.

Renn Stearns earned the Tigers final All-SCIAC finish of the evening. The senior was second in the steeplechase with a mark of 9:04.58. That was a personal-best by nearly three seconds.

PRELIMS

• Skylar Cottell, Phoebe Ogden and Elizabeth Hawley qualified for the 400 meter dash finals. Hawley ran the second-fastest mark at the meet – 57.54

• Mia Ness moved on to the 800 finals. She nabbed the last spot at 2:21.49.

• Jenna LeNay moved on to the 1500 finals and will compete in the 5k finals. Megan Cover advanced to the 1500 finals as well.

• Hawley moved on to the 200 finals at a mark of 25.43.

• Brooke Tompkins was fourth in the 400 hurdles, with a shot to podium in the finals.

• Shane Kawakami-Williams looks to podium in both the 100 and 200 meter dash finals after qualifying in the top-four in each.

• Zachary McGraw joins Kawakami-Williams in the 100 finals.

• Charles Service qualified for the 400 meter dash finals with a time of 50.65.

• Matthew Vickers' 1:57.08 mark got him to the 800 finals.

All told, the Tigers are looking at double-digit podium opportunities headed into day two.