0SPOKANE, Wash. – In the Spartans first meet of the 2024 indoor track and field season, Trinity Western pole vaulting brothers Jaime Eduardo Martin Huerta (Santiago, Chile) and Nicolas Martin Huerta (Santiago, Chile) both earned a ticket to the U SPORTS Championship by clearing 4.90m Saturday to earn the national qualifying standard at the Spokane Indoor Challenge at The Podium. 
 
Jaime Eduardo, who is a two-time U SPORTS medalist, winning gold in 2022 and bronze in 2023, and Nicolas, who is in his first year TWU, led the Spartans on a day that saw the team open the season with a strong showing. 
 
On the women's side, Erica Udoh (Winnipeg), who is her second year of eligibility but first year with TWU, made a statement in her first ever meet as a Spartan, shattering TWU's weight throw record with a mark of 13.63m. Udoh bettered the previous mark of 11.81m, which was set by Aleena Zibin in 2002-03. 
 
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Shane Wiebe – Head Coach 
"Today was marked by a plethora of personal best performances from the team. It was great to see Ed and Nico earn standard for nationals. We had a lot of good hurdle performances today. Daniel Toneguzzi (Victoria) had really impressive 3000m, shaving off 12 seconds from his personal best. Erica smashed our school record in the weight throw. Sheleena Wiley (Langley, B.C.) dusted off her 60m self and ran some blistering times for her. Nikita Bradshaw (Pickering, Ont.) had a great day and PBd in her high jump. Our sprinters had a great day and a lot of our JV athletes had good days. All in all, it was a good day. I'm really encouraged by the start of our season."
 
UP NEXT
TWU will compete in the Golden Bears Open Jan. 20-21 in Edmonton. 
 
TWU RESULTS
Women
60m 
Qualifying 
4th – Sheleena Wiley – 7.77q
21st – Aliya Adomi – 8.01
34th – Emily Stevenson – 8.19 
 
Preliminaries 
12th – Sheleena Wiley – 7.77 
 
200m
29th – Aliyah Adomi – 26.66 
34th – Emily Stevenson – 27.39  
 
Mile 
10th – Maddie Gibson – 5:20.71 
 
60m Hurdles
Qualifying 
10th – Nikita Bradshaw – 9.14q 
18th – Claire Nicol – 9.44 
23rd – Emily Stevenson – 9.59 
33rd – Eileen Noordam – 9.94 
 
Preliminaries 
11th – Nikita Bradshaw – 9.00 
 
High Jump 
5th – Nikita Bradshaw – 1.61m 
14th – Claire Nicol – 1.46m 
15th – Alison Ruegg – 1.41m 
18th – Eileen Noordam – 1.41m
 
Long Jump 
14th – Sheleena Wiley – 5.08m
15th – Katie Tancsics – 5.00m
 
Pole Vault 
6th – Ana Fonseca – 3.50m 
 
Weight Throw 
11th – Erica Udoh – 13.63m 
22nd – Uririnoghene Ishaka – 11.32m 
 
Shot Put 
14th – Uririnoghene Ishka – 10.86m 
20th – Erica Udoh – 10.06m 
 
Triple Jump
17th – Alison Ruegg – 9.68m 
 
MEN
60m 
Qualifying 
3rd – Danny Earles – 7.00q
18th – Aaron Cardinez – 7.22 
20th – Jonathan Toews – 7.23
23rd – Romain Tourvielle de Labrouhe – 7.25 
25th – Cade Armour – 7.34 
26th – Nathaniel Sett – 7.35 
27th – Dominic Bates-Montoya – 7.35 
31st – Nate Savage – 7.41 
 
Preliminaries 
22nd – Aaron Cardinez – 7.37 
 
200m 
10th – Jonathan Toews – 23.09 
13th – Aaron Cardinez – 23.16 
15th – Romain Tourvielle de Labrouhe – 23.28 
16th – Cade Armour – 23.41 
17th – Nathaniel Sett – 23.56 
19th – Dominic Bates-Montoya – 23.75 
20th – Eli Hrychiw – 23.86 
 
400m
16th – Ethan Gremaud – 51.66  
 
60m Hurdles 
Preliminaries 
9th – Brandon Gremaud – 8.73 
11th – Nate Savage – 8.90 
13th – Justin Warkentin – 9.13 
16th – Brendan Luccock – 9.36 
19th – Ethan Foster – 9.84 
20th – Dajean Clarke – 9.89 
 
Long Jump
6th – Oke Okkumo – 6.69m
8th – Brandon Gremaud – 6.40m 
10th – Romain Tourvielle de Labrouhe – 6.36m 
11th – Caleb Emon – 6.34m 
15th – Luke Chalk – 6.16m 
16th – Dajean Clarke – 6.16m 
17th – Ethan Foster – 6.00m 
19th – Brendan Luccock – 5.75m
21st – Justin Warkentin – 5.68m 
23rd – Thane Parker – 5.24m 
25th – Eli Hrychiw – 4.84m 
 
Shot Put
18th – Thane Parker – 11.08m 
19th – Dajean Clarke – 10.99m 
 
Triple Jump
5th – Oke Okumo – 13.24m 
8th – Luke Chalk – 12.75m 
 
Pole Vault 
4th – Nicolas Martin Huerta – 4.90m 
5th – Jaime Eduardo Martin Huerta – 4.90m 
14th – Ben Zubaly – 4.45m 
21st – Brendan Luccock – 3.40m 
 
4x400m 
9th – 3:33.94 – Dominic Bates-Montoya, Eli Hrychiw, Cade Armour, Ethan Gremaud 
 
About Spartan Athletics
As official members of U SPORTS, the Spartans currently compete in 13 sports in the Canada West conference, including women's and men's soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, cross country and track & field, as well as women's rugby sevens. TWU also competes as an independent team in men's rugby and disc golf. Since TWU entered U SPORTS in 1999, the Spartans have won 13 U SPORTS team championships and 32 Canada West team championships.
 
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