Montana travels to Pocatello for conference preview

Saturday, April 10

Bozeman, Mont.

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Bobcat Qualifier

Kahsiah Benson - Bobcat Preview - 4/10/21

Photo by: Andrew Pedersen, Montana State Athletics

Montana travels to Pocatello for conference preview

4/15/2021 2:53:00 PM | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

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By: Montana Sports Information

Even before the season began, head track & field coach Clint May had this weekend's Bengal Invitational circled on his calendar.

The Grizzlies have competed in three meets over the past three weekends, and while all three stood out in their own ways, this weekend's competition feels different.

"Ever since our schedule was created, I always looked at this meet as a good barometer for our team," May said. "I love where the meet sits, in the middle of April, and I think it will give us a good feel for what we need to work on and what we can realistically hope for at the conference meet."

Montana opened the spring season in late March, hosting the Al Manuel Invitational in Missoula. The next two weekends, the Grizzlies were on the road, but due to COVID-19 protocols were only able to send one bus full of athletes to Spokane and Bozeman.

This weekend will be more representative to what the Grizzlies will see – and showcase – next month at the Big Sky Championships in Ogden, Utah.

For one, the competition will look similar. Competing this weekend will be athletes from Big Sky schools Idaho State, Montana State, Southern Utah and Weber State – not to mention BYU, Utah State, Utah Valley and others.

Second, Montana will send a larger contingent of athletes to the meet, with particular focus on putting athletes in events they might compete in at the Big Sky Championships.

Montana has had a strong start to the 2021 season. The Grizzlies have athletes ranked in the top eight in an event 30 times, leading the Big Sky in the women's hammer (Tanessa Morris) and men's javelin (Dylan Kipp), and ranking in the top three in a handful of other events.

Now the Grizzlies will have an opportunity to do it in a meet with a similar feel to the conference meet.

For the first time this season, many athletes will compete over multiple days, with 22 events taking place on Friday – spanning sprints, hurdles, distance, throwing and jumping – before 30 more occur on Saturday. Action begins at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, before starting back up at 11 a.m. on Saturday.

"It's an overnight trip, and the competition is really, really worth of a conference preview," May said. "I think that this meet will really create a feel that will help our athletes know that we're moving into the most competitive, conference-like time of the season."

Montana will be heavily represented in the women's 200 meters (eight athletes), women's javelin (eight), women's long jump (seven), men's 1,500 meters (six) and women's high jump (six).

Several female athletes will have busy weekends with Ailsa Gilbert, Whitney Morrison and Jansen Ziola competing in five events apiece, and Jaree Mane and Morgan Radtke competing four times.

Fans can follow the Bengal Invitational on Pluto TV (channel 1061), in addition to tracking live results.

Women's 100 meters – Emma Normand
Men's 100 meters – Kip Krebsbach, Cutter Thatcher, Jason Upton
Women's 200 meters – Ailsa Gilbert, Jaree Mane, Whitney Morrison, Emma Normand, Morgan Radtke, Faith Rebich, Holly Sudol, Jansen Ziola
Men's 200 meters – Cade Johnstone, Kip Krebsbach, Xavier Melice, Jason Upton
Women's 400 meters – Faith Rebich
Men's 400 meters – Cade Johnstone, Xavier Melice
Women's 800 meters – Carly Dahms
Men's 800 meters – Quincy Fast, Colton Hess, Jacob Lamb
Women's 1,500 meters – Beatrix Frissell, Olivia Lackland Henry
Men's 1,500 meters – Truman Cowan, AJ Eckmann, Quincy Fast, Jacob Lamb, Hunter May, Joel Mendez
Women's 5,000 meters – Beatrix Frissell, Olivia Lackland Henry
Men's 5,000 meters – Truman Cowan, Hunter May
Men's 10,000 meters – Kyle Peterson
Women's 100-meter hurdles – Ailsa Gilbert, Jaree Mane, Whitney Morrison, Morgan Radtke, Jansen Ziola
Women's 400-meter hurdles – Abby Harmon, Holly Sudol
Men's 400-meter hurdles – Colton Hess, Cutter Thatcher
Men's 3,000-meter steeplechase – AJ Eckmann, Joel Mendez
Women's 4x400-meter relay – A: Holly Sudol, Whitney Morrison, Jaree Mane, Jansen Ziola; B: Abby Harmon, Morgan Radtke, Carly Dahms, Ailsa Gilbert
Men's 4x400-meter relay – A: Colton Hess, Jacob Lamb, Cutter Thatcher, Quincy Fast
Women's high jump – Abby Dodge, Ailsa Gilbert, Jaree Mane, Whitney Morrison, Morgan Radtke, Jansen Ziola
Men's high jump – Jordan Stow, Jason Upton
Women's pole vault – Kahsiah Benson, Aly Tekippe
Men's pole vault – Zane Johnson
Women's long jump – Ailsa Gilbert, Jaree Mane, Whitney Morrison, Morgan Radtke, Holly Sudol, Aly Tekippe, Jansen Ziola
Men's long jump – Peterson Bohannon, Jordan Stow, Jason Upton
Women's triple jump – Abby Dodge
Men's triple jump – Zane Johnson
Men's shot put – Brent Yeakey
Women's discus – Holly Houston
Men's discus – Matt Ward, Brent Yeakey
Women's hammer – Ariel Clark, Holly Houston, Tanessa Morris
Men's hammer – Matt Ward
Women's javelin – Kimberly Earhart, Ailsa Gilbert, Jaree Mane, Tatum McNamara, Whitney Morrison, Autumn Morse, Holly Sudol, Jansen Ziola
Men's javelin – Everett Fred, Matthew Hockett, Dylan Kipp, Evan Todd