PALO ALTO/SAN FRANCISCO/FRESNO, Calif. —The Dons wrapped up a busy weekend as they finished competition across three track meets in the Bay area at the Stanford Invitational, Mike Fanelli Invitational and West Coast Relays. At the Stanford Invitational Ed Buck and Ruby Smee produced big personal best marks in their events, while Baneet Bains impressed in her first Steeplechase of the season, just one second outside of her personal best—all of which will most likely be West Regional qualifying marks.

Caleb Haugland excelled at the Mike Fanelli Invitational smashing the elusive 15-minute barrier, crossing the line in 14:29. 84 and winning his heat. Sophia Priester-Veasley also took home the win in her heat of the 100 Meter Dash, in a personal best time. At the West Coast Relays on Friday, Olivia Alexandre produced an impressive win in the 400-meter hurdles. While Lorie Cashdollar showed promising form for the rest of the season in the 800 meter event finishing in third place.

RESULTS:
Mike Fanelli Track Classic:
Women:
100 Meter Dash:
Section 3:
1. Sophia Priester-Veasley 12.27
400 Meter Hurdles:
Section 2:
4. Imani Wyatt 1:07.00
800 Meters:
Section 4:
6. Kamilla Vanadzina 2:15.23
Section 8:
1. Olivia Alexandre 2:16.09
Section 10
7. Laurel Froehlich 2:33.70
1500 Meters:
Section 1
10. Kamilla Vanadzina 4:40.29
Section 2
12. Grace Copeland 4:38.31
Section 6
10. Ebony Webb 4:57.30
Section 11
5. Kaylee Noda 5:01.10
5000 Meters:
Section 3
17. Maite Kuestner 17:54.15

Men:
800 Meters:
Section 9
1. Carter Lewis 1:58.67
1500 Meters:
Section 6
6. Daniel Abramowicz 4:05.48
Section 9
3. Carter Lewis 4:09.02
5000 Meters:
Section 3
1. Caleb Haugland 14:29.84
7. Hiruy Alemseged 14:38.28
Section 4
2. Ben Preddy 14:46.89
Section 5:
20. Danny Skovron 15:40.96
Section 8
5. Aaron Ruiz 16:13.52
14. Ryan Duncan 16:23.37

Stanford Invitational:
Women:
800 Meters:
Section 6
5. Julia Morales 2:13.19
1500 Meters:
Section 5
3. Abby Pradere 4:25.19
3000 Meter Steeplechase:
Section 2
8. Baneet Bains 10:20.63
10,000 Meters:
Section 1
5. Ruby Smee 32:30.60
Men:
5000 Meters:
Section 3
13. Ed Buck 14:11.41

West Coast Relays:
Women:
400 Meter Hurdles:
Section 1
1. Olivia Alexandre 1:00.48
800 Meters:
Section 1
3. Lorie Cashdollar 2:14.72

CATCHING UP WITH COACH RILEY:
"A busy and fruitful weekend of racing split between the Bay and Central Valley. This is first weekend that we typically see training start to translate into racing and we had a number of examples of that. On the men's side Caleb, Hiruy, Ben and Ed really had solid 5k races with PB's across the board. Carter alsohad a good weekend with a 1500/800m double. On the women's side, Olivia had a great 400m hurdle debut winning her heat in Fresno. Saffy ran a big PB in the 100m and Imani had a very promising 400m hurdle debut for the Dons. In the distances, Maite had a big 5k PB and Kaylee had a big PB in the 1500m. At Stanford, Abby in the 1500m and Baneet in the Steeple had gutsy races and are ahead of where they were this time last year. Ruby absolutely crushed it in her second 10k on the track, lowering her PB by 90sec and is currently 6th in the NCAA. The next thing is to keep this momentum going and hopefullyadd a couple of key athletes to compete in the coming weeks."

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