KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. –
Sarah Pimblett set a new personal best overall heptathlon score to claim fourth place at the Cascade Collegiate Conference Multi-Event Championships hosted Thursday and Friday at Oregon Tech.
The junior from Medicine Hat, Alberta earned first in the high jump, helping to an overall point total of 4075, improving her previous best performance by 102 points while finishing six places higher than her appearance at last year's conference championship.
Alessandra Ionescu-Zanetti finished fifth with 3743 points while freshman
Audrey Vennesland claimed eighth with 3130 as all three T-Birds competing scored valuable points toward the overall conference championship team pursuit with the main CCC meet taking place May 9 and 10 in Ashland, Oregon.
The lone Thunderbird competing in the conference decathlon, freshman
Samuel McGee also claimed a point toward the team total with an eighth place finish in his second collegiate competition following last month's UBC Open.
McGee's 5085 total score also set a new personal best by 325.
In addition to her first place high jump, Pimblett claimed third in long jump with a top attempt of 5.00 metres, just five centimetres off a personal best. The last of the seven events saw her set a new lifetime best time in the 800 metres with a 2:47.79.
Ionescu-Zanetti began the heptathlon with a third place time of 16.06 in the 100 metre hurdles while facing a significant headwind.
Vennesland led all three T-Birds in the 200 metre dash, her time of 27.10 good for third in the field of ten. The freshman also claimed a personal best in the 800 metres with a 2:45.87.
McGee's best scoring event of the grueling ten discipline competition came courtesy of the 100 metre dash where the Vancouver native finished fourth with a time of 11.63. His sixth place high jump performance equalled his personal best as he cleared 1.76 metres.
The Kitsilano Secondary graduate managed a new personal best in javelin as well as a new 74 centimetre PB in pole vault, clearing 3.50 metres. McGee finished up with yet another personal best, claiming sixth in the 1500 metres in 5:18.42, bettering his previous mark by nearly six seconds.
Between Pimblett, Ionescu-Zanetti and Vennesland, the T-Birds have already put together 10 team points toward the women's CCC Conference Championship, tied with Southern Oregon. McGee's eighth place has earned one point for the 'Birds on the men's side.
While the 2025 conference Multi-Event Championships are now complete, plenty of other T-Birds remain in action this weekend in southern California as the Beach Invitational continues Saturday, wrapping up a trio of meets in the greater Los Angeles area.
Next weekend, much of the team will be back south of the 49
th parallel at Western Washington's Ralph Vernacchia Invitational as the main conference championship and the 2025 NAIA National Championships both are now just weeks away.
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