As spring sports at UI conclude with the end of the school year, here is a final roundup of scores across golf, tennis, and track and field.
Men’s Golf
Men’s Golf approaches the end of their season with Joe Sykes being invited to the NCAA Men’s Golf Regional Tournament after his exceptional performance at the Big Sky Championship. UI placed third in the tournament, just four strokes under Sacramento State according to a press release.
However. Skyes had the single best performance and was the individual champion. He shot a 209 and will represent UI at the Division 1 regional tournament. The tournament’s location is still unknown, but it will occur on May 13.
Men’s Tennis
Men’s Tennis finished the season with the Big Sky Tournament held in Phoenix Arizona. The Vandals lost 2-5 against NAU.
According to a press release, NAU took the opening point of the match after winning on courts two and three in doubles play. The doubles team of Francisco Gay and Taiyo Kurata won their match 7-5 shortly after a 6-2 loss from Alex Asenov and Sebastian Medica. Mario Duron and Sebastian Medica earned the only victories for Idaho in singles. Duron went 6-1, 6-4 and Medica went 6-2, 6-1.
After back-to-back championship seasons in 2022 and 2023, this season ended in a disappointing overall record of 5-14.
Track and Field
The Vandal Track and Field season closed their 2024 season with meets at the University of Arizona and Oregon State University.
At the Oregon State High Performance Meet, two Vandal first-year students earned podium finishes on day one. Constanze Paoli ran a personal best of 10:36.90 in the women’s 3000 steeplechase for third place. McKenna Kozeluh also took third place in the women’s 10000m with a time of 36:30.91 and Nathalia Campos followed at a 36:43.46 mark for fourth place according to a press release.
Maya Kobylanski ran a season-best 4:37.57 in the women’s 1500m, finishing fourth. For the men’s 1500m, Shea Mattson and Tim Stevens took eighth and ninth place.
In the Desert Heat Class in Arizona, Justyn Rogers finished eighth in men’s long jump at 7.41m, just 0.08m shy of his personal record he scored at last year’s Desert Heat Classic. Rogers stands fourth in the conference heading to the Big Sky Championship.
First-year student Gioele Tengattini threw a new personal record of 50.03m in men’s discus for the seventh farthest mark in the conference.
In the men’s 800 Zac Bright and Lorenz Herrmann scored within the top ten. Bright took ninth with a time of 1:49.80 and Herrmann took tenth at 1:49. 88.
First-year student Hanna Tait finished eleventh in the women’s long jump with a new personal record of 5.89m. Tait has the Big Sky Conference’s eighth longest jump this year.
In the women’s high jump Annika Jozin got a mark of 1.65m and placed tenth. In men’s high jump Dante Cox got a mark of 1.95m and finished in ninth place.
Mia Slyvester finished thirteenth in women’s shotput and sixteenth in women’s hammer throw.
According to a press release, Vandal Track and Field will complete their season with the 2024 Big Sky Outdoor Track & Field Championships at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont. The meet will happen Wednesday, May 8. through Saturday, May 11.
After that, Vandal athletics will completely wrap up its 2024 Spring Season.
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