Martinez Breaks UCR Mile Mark. Becomes 1st Highlander Indoor Qualifier

When last we saw Brenda Martinez in a track & field event she was competing in Olympic Qualifying eight months ago. On Saturday afternoon, she picked up right where she left off by breaking the school record in the mile with an NCAA provisional qualifying mark time of 4:39.92 at the University of Washington's Husky Classic. Martinez becomes the first UC Riverside track and field athlete to qualify for the NCAAs in Indoor competition, and that time places her in the top 10 in the nation in the mile.

But Martinez wasn't the only Highlanders track & field athlete taking aim at the record books: Lauren Reid set the school record in the long jump leaping 5.65m with her first jump of the day; Andrew Jacobson's 49.12 in the 400 meter dash established a new UCR mark; and the men's 4 by 400 team of Marcus Marbrey, Jacobson, Sean Ferrera and Greg Lemon ran their heat in a Highlander-best 3:18.25.

UC Riverside competed with over 50 other programs in Saturday's Husky Classic. The women's field featured seven ranked teams led by No. 3 Oregon, No. 6 Florida State, No. 9 Penn State, and No. 10 Arizona State. Additional ranked teams include Arizona (12), BYU (18), and Stanford (19). On the men's side, nine of the Top-25 teams in the USTFCCCA rankings were in attendance, including Arizona State (2), Oregon (3), Florida State (6), and Texas (7), BYU (12), Michigan (13), Stanford (16), Arizona (22), UCLA (23).

Complete Results

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UC Riverside Results

Women's Results
Event	Heat/Section	Athlete	Time/Distance
60m	Heat 4 Prelim	Molly Russell	7.94
200m	Section 8	Ashley Gatewood	26.15
	Section 11	Molly Russell	25.74
400m	Section 3	Diahann Williams	1:01.16
	Section 6	Michelle Macias	59.55
	Section 10	Ashley Williams	57.85
	Section 10	TreAna Hundley	58.27
1 mile	Section 5	Danielle Evans	4:52.33
	Section 6	Brenda Martinez	4:39.92 P
3000m	Section 3	Lisa Lopez	9:42.52
5000m	Section1	Cristina Olivas	17:16.51
4x400m relay	Section 2	Hundley, Marina Young, Macias, A. Williams	3:53.00
High jump	Flight 2	Karen Han	1.64m
Long jump	Flight 2	Ashley Gatewood	5.21m
	Flight 2	Chinwe Oniah	5.01m
	Flight 4	Lauren Reid	5.65m
Triple jump	Flight 2	Lauren Reid	11.17m
	Flight 2	Chinwe Oniah	10.73m
Weight Throw	Flight 1	Megan MacFarland	12.36m

Men's Results
Event	Heat/Section	Athlete	Time/Distance
60m	Heat 4 Prelim	Kevin Fashola	7.20
200m	Section 4	Kevin Fashola	22.96
	Section 8	Andrew Jacobson	22.80
400m	Section 3	Marcus Marbrey	50.03
	Section 3	Jerome Rideaux	51.59
	Section 4	Sean Ferrera	50.11
	Section 5	Greg Lemon	50.86
	Section 7	Andrew Jacobson	49.12
1 mile	Section 4	Talal Khan	4:17.24
	Section 5	Chad Hall	4:07.56
3000m	Section 1	Brett Valencia	8:37.97
	Section 2	Andrew Tachias	8:18.40
	Section 2	Daniel Lindstrom	8:28.83
	Section 2	Pedro Ramos	9:29.96
	Section 2	MIichael Buell	8:30.96
5000m	Section 2	Ulices Pina	14:20.75
4x400m relay	Section 2	Marbrey, Jacobson, Ferrera, Lemon	3:18.25
High jump	Flight 1	Reggie Jackson	1.95m
Long jump	Flight 1	Ryan Swafford	6.01m
	Flight 2	Terry Smoot Jr.	6.62m
Triple jump	Flight 1	William Ibekwe	13.35m

Martinez Breaks UCR Mile Mark. Becomes 1st Highlander Indoor Qualifier

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