CSUN Track & Field Enters UCR/LBSU Invite This Week

Thursday, April 29

Riverside, CA

All Day

California State University at Northridge

UC Riverside Distance Invitational

Photo by: Braden Villanueva

4/27/2021 10:46:00 AM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field

Schedule For UCR

Schedule For Long Beach State

NORTHRIDGE, Calif.—The CSUN men's and women's track and field teams wrap up the regular season this week with a three-day meet that will be hosted by both UC Riverside and Long Beach State.

Action begins Thursday in Riverside with a set of distance events ranging from 800m to 5000m. The gun goes off at 6 p.m. Friday's competition will feature just sprint races that will range from 100m to 800m and will begin at 1 p.m. On Friday, the throwing events at Long Beach State will begin at 10 a.m. On Saturday, the opening jumping event at LBSU is set for 11 a.m.

Scheduled to compete this week are; Cal State Fullerton, CSU Bakersfield, CSUN, Long Beach State, San Diego State, UC Irvine, UC Riverside, and UC San Diego. All links to live stats will be available on GoMatadors.com.

The CSUN men's and women's track and field teams won five individual events as the program hosted the Matador Invitational Apr. 23. Junior Mathieu Tshani won the triple jump by posting a career-best performance of 50-11 3/4. This was Tshani's fourth individual victory of this season, his third coming in the triple jump.

Quinn Garity ran the fifth-fastest 1500m time by a CSUN freshman in school history as he won the race in a time of 3:55.02. Garity doubled-up in the 800m and he registered a season-best 1:54.30 to come in second. Garity has won four individual events this season including three in the 1500m.

Senior Eric Vivanco recorded a pair of career-bests on the day. He won the 200m by running his fastest Matador time of :22.24 after earlier in the meet going :48.75 to finish second in the 400m.

Senior Sonsoles Barba won the long jump with a career-best leap of 19-0 1/2. This was Barba's third win in the long jump in four tries this season.

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