MOSCOW, Idaho - Idaho Track and Field is set to compete at the Riverfront Invitational this weekend at The Podium in Spokane, Washington.

The men's heptathlon and women's pentathlon will take place Thursday and Friday, while the Vandals will open up with field events at 12:30 pm and track events at 3:00 pm on Friday.

The Vandals secured six first-place finishes which included two school records at the Inland Northwest Invitational last week at The Podium.

Sophomore Mia Sylvester was named the Big Sky Women's Field Athlete of the Week after breaking the Idaho women's weight throw record at the Inland Northwest Invitational throwing 18.77m. Sylvester threw the conference's best mark this year while surpassing Aloha Santiago's Idaho record from 2003 (18.66m). She enters this weekend with the No. 6 entry mark as the first Vandal to compete this week when the women's weight throw opens up at 12:30 PM on Friday.

Prabhasha Wickramaraachchi also captured a Vandal record while finishing first in the women's 300m (39.49) passing teammate Camryn Crouch's 2022 record of 39.93. Wickramaraachchi is set to compete in the women's 60m, 400m, and the women's 4x400m relay this weekend.

Junior Joseph Ruddell enters the men's high jump with the No. 1 mark of 2.12m in his 2024 season debut.

Justyn Rogers, of Brisbane, Australia, opens the men's long jump seeded first (7.68m). The junior took first last week, jumping 6.93m in his first competition of 2024. 

Friday's track events open with the women's 800m race at 3:00 pm. Hannah Russell comes in seeded tenth at 2:11.89. Russell earned a silver medal in last week's 800m crossing the tape with a season-best, 2:15.35.

The men's 800m follows as Lorenz Herrmann checks in at second (1:47.39). Herrmann has raced the 800m twice this year and finished first both times. His first title came with a season-best 1:50.62 mark at the 2024 Spokane Sports Showcase, just 0.04 seconds behind the Big Sky's best this year (Harvey Cramb, Montana State, 1:50.58, Bobcat Preview). Zac Bright enters the 800m seeded fourth (1:49.80) and Gage Zanette fifth (1:50.86).

Camryn Crouch holds two 200m titles this season as she looks to secure a third entering this weekend at No. 8 (24.13). Crouch, of Boulder Creek, Calif., ran a season-best 24.29 taking first at last week's Inland Northwest Invitational. The 24.29 mark is the fourth fastest in the Big Sky this year. 

Jemini Archer (21.01) opens at seventh for the men's 200m. Archer took first at the Lauren McCluskey Memorial at a 21.57 mark, the fastest time in the Big Sky this year.

Vandal freshman McKenna Kozeluh checks in with the third fastest mark in the women's 5000m at 17:15.00, closing the Friday events for Idaho.

Saturday's events begin at 10 am as Sylvester is set to open up the day for the Vandals with the No. 1 mark of 15.75m in the women's shot put. 

Crouch enters the women's 60m qualifying rounds with the fifth fastest entry of 7.45. Olivia Martin (7.59) opens at 11th and freshman Jana Willems is 15th at 7.63.

Jurrian Hering (6.80) and Archer (6.83) check in at ninth and 15th for the men's 60m qualifying prelims. Hering and Archer hold the second and third fastest marks in the Big Sky this year.

Hering is also set to compete in the men's 60m hurdles where he is seeded third at 7.96. The senior took first at the 2024 Lauren McCluskey Memorial with the 7.96 mark, the second best time in the conference in 2023-24.

Katja Pattis is the No. 3 seed for the women's mile at 4:46.71.

Herrmann enters the men's mile seeded second (4:03.17) followed by Shea Mattson in third (4:06.86), Shane Gard fifth (4:09.32), and Tim Stevens sixth (4:09.58).

Freshman Blossom Omogor will compete in the women's 400m with the No. 8 seed time of 55.00 and Martin (55.13) stands just behind at ninth. 

Spencer Barrera headlines the men's 400m with the No. 1 entry time of 46.60. Barrera finished second at this year's Lauren McCluskey Memorial at a 47.75 mark, the second fastest in the Big Sky this year. 

The Vandals will compete in the women's 4x400m relay with three different squads while the men will run the 4x400m relay with two entries.

Next week, the Vandals will split squads competing at the Don Kirby Elite Invitational hosted by the University of New Mexico, the David Hemery Valentine Invitational hosted by Boston University, and the Whitworth Indoor Invitational at The Podium in Spokane, Washington.

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