SAN ANTONIO — UTSA will enter next weekend's Conference USA Championships with a pair of top marks in the league this season.
Leading the way is Angel Sifuentes and the Roadrunners' 1,600-meter relay.
Sifuentes has been on top of the javelin leaderboard all spring following her program-record measurement of 147-2 (44.87m) at the season-opening UTSA Invitational back on March 18.
Meanwhile, the quartet of Jennifer Arinze, Sierra Andres, Paige Patterson and Evelyn Clark owns a top time of 3:38.18, which came last Saturday at the Bobcats Classic. That was the second-fastest performance in program history and UTSA's mile relay has finished no worse than third in all seven of its races this spring.
Led by Paige Patterson's personal-best clocking of 54.20 last weekend, the Roadrunners now have three athletes among the top eight in the 400m. Patterson ranks third heading into next week's meet, while Clark (55.06) and Shantel Swift (55.22) stand seventh and eighth, respectively.
Stephanie Wangui is fourth in both the 800m and 1,500m with her season-best times of 2:08.84 and 4:28.15. The senior from Leander is the conference's defending champion in the 800m.
Caroline Bellows sits in sixth place in the pole vault with her clearance of 11-7 ¾ (3.55m) and Mia Hicks is among the top eight in two throwing events, as the freshman from Conroe ranks seventh in the discus with her school-record mark of 156-2 (47.61m) and eighth in the shot put (44-11 ½/13.70m).
Gabriyella Torres is seventh in the heptathlon (4,280 points) and Grace Kohler stands eighth in the 3,000m steeplechase (11:11.58).
The four-day conference meet is scheduled to begin next Thursday, May 12, in Murfreesboro, Tenn.
