KINGSVILLE, Texas (May 7, 2022) – The Lubbock Christian University men's and women's track and field teams wrapped up competition at the Lone Star Conference Outdoor Championships on Saturday with the men taking seventh and the women ninth.
 
The Chaps took 35 points at the meet for their seventh place finish, placing ahead of four other teams.
 
Bryce Spencer led the way with three podium finishes, including a win in the hammer throw and second place finishes in both the javelin and the discus. None of the throws were personal bests for Spencer, but all three would have provisionally qualified him for the NCAA Championships, had he not already done that earlier in the season.
 
Spencer won the hammer by a wide margin with a toss of 57.50m. The second-place thrower was four meters short of Spencer's mark and he was the only athlete with a provisional mark at the meet in that event. In the discus he took second with his throw of 53.20m and the sophomore recorded a throw of 60.40m in the javelin. He accounted for 26 of LCU's 35 team points.
 
Another thrower, Tres Rodriguez, got three more of the points in the shot put. The freshman PRed in the event with a throw of 15.24m and took sixth. Keitron Boyd also earned a sixth-place finish in the 200-meter to earn three more points, posting a time of 21.52s in the finals of the race.
 
The final three LCU points came from Kevin Washington and Nathan Karseno, who both earned them in the triple jump. Washington placed seventh with a ump of 14.43m and Karseno's best jump of 13.84 gave him eighth.
 
LCU's women finished with 17 points to take ninth in the 12-team field.
 
Anna Salisbury got nearly half of those points in one event with a podium finish in the 400-meter. Her time of 55.64s placed her second. Although not her fastest time of the season, it also would've provisionally qualified her for the NCAA Championships.
 
Salisbury was also apart of four more points that LCU scored in the 4x400m relay, where she ran on a team with Charlotte Scanell, Reanna Argullin and Kiley Cummings. The foursome completed the race with a time of 3:53.99 to place fifth.
 
Marissa Perez, running at the conference meet for the final time in her career, earned three points in the 3000m steeplechase as she placed sixth with a time of 11:56.56.
 
Madelyn Merrell took a point in the 800-meter, finishing eighth with a time of 2:26.44, and Abigail Jones took eighth for one more point in the women's hammer throw. He top toss went 43.82m.