LOS ANGELES -- The Washington State combined events competitors, sophomores Alissa Brooks-Johnson and Dino Dodig, finished the first day of the Pac-12 Championships with lifetime-best marks, achieved Saturday at UCLA’s Drake Stadium.
Brooks-Johnson (Doty, Wash.) is in third-place after the first four events in the heptathlon with a PR score of 3,356 points. UCLA’s Tatum Souza leads the heptathlon with a first day total of 3,407 points, with the 2014 heptathlon winner, USC’s Amalie Iuel, second with 3368 points.
Brooks-Johnson, who was the runner-up in the heptathlon at the 2014 Pac-12 Championships, opened the 2015 competition with a 100m hurdles PR time of 13.96 seconds which was third-fastest among the 14 participants. She high jumped a PR height of 5-feet, 7 inches (1.70m) which was the top bar clearance of the day, threw the shot put a PR distance of 37-5 1/4 (11.41m), and ran the 200m dash in a PR time of 24.91.
In the decathlon, Dodig (Novi Sad, Serbia) is in fifth place with a PR of 3,869 points. Arizona junior Pau Tonneson is leading the 14-man field after the first five events with 4,098 points, and the 2014 conference champion, Oregon’s Dakota Keys, is in fourth with 3,965 points.
Dodig opened the decathlon with a 100m dash time of 11.17, had a season-best long jump leap of 22-8 (6.91m), threw the shot put a season-best distance of 38-11 1/2 (11.87m), high jumped 6-7 1/2 (2.02m), and ran the 400m in 49.61.
At the Ken Shannon Invitational meet in Seattle, Brock Eager (freshman, Renton, Wash.) won the Friday hammer throw with a PR toss of 193-11 (59.12m). Saturday, Matt Wardell took sixth in the shot put with a heave of 53-5 (16.28m) and Jake Callaghan finished seventh with a PR throw of 50-0 1/2 (15.25m).
The Pac-12 Conference Combined Events Championships continues Sunday, May 10, with the first event set to start at 11 a.m. Live results tomorrow and next weekend can be accessed online at www.rtspt.com/events/pac12/track15/.
