Lentz and Dwol Earn Team USA Spots for World Championships

Colorado Results Scoreboard

(29-Jun) Four (4) USATF Colorado members competed in the 2022 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships that concluded on Saturday (25-Jun) in Eugene, Oregon.  The championships were the qualifying event for next the upcoming World Athletics U20 Championships to be held in Cali, Columbia August 1-6. The top two athletes in each event who met the world championship entry standard qualified to represent Team USA at the world championships.

Two (2) Coloradans earned Team USA spots to compete at the world championships in August.  

In the men's 3000m Steeplechase, Air Force cadet Bryce Lentz ran to victory in a time of 8:58.46. In May, Lentz ran personal best of 8:39.73 at the NCAA regionals to advance to the NCAA finals where he placed 22nd. The time is an Air Force Freshman Class Record and #3 on the program's all-time list.
 
In the women's Triple Jump, Agur Dwol (Littleton, CO; MileHigh TC - pictured above) finished second with a best mark of 12.74m (41-9¾). Suzan Ogunleye, from Texas, won the competition with a mark of 13.09 (42-11½) that came on her first jump and was assisted with a 2.6 mph wind reading.  In May, Dwol won the Colorado state title with a state record of 42-5½.  She recently graduated from Mullen High School and has announced she will matriculate to the University of Oklahoma but before she heads to Oklahoma she will compete in Columbia at the world championships.
 
Vanderbilt University bound Giavonna Meeks (Denver, CO - picuted above)) competed in three events over the three-day meet. In the Discus Throw she finished third with a personal best mark, by event feet, of 52.87m (173-5).  She finished just four feet behind the runner-up in the competition.  The performance makes her the #2 performer in Colorado high school history behind the 184-2 by Olympian Valerie Allman in 2013.  She also picked up a pair of sixth place finishes in the Shot Put (14.26m / 46-9½) and Hammer Throw (53.71m / 176-2).

Gavin Schurr (Lafayette, CO) finished ninth in the 100m (10.57) and 12th in the 200m (21.93)

The complete Colorado Results Scoreboard can be found here.

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