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\n\t\t\tTristyn Flores, Long Beach State | Senior \u2022 Fontana, Calif.
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\n\tLong Beach State’s Tristyn\u00a0Flores won the 200m race at the Challenge Cup meet to earn The Big West Men’s Track Athlete of the Week award. It is Flores’ second career weekly honor, having won it once last year.
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\n\tThe Beach senior clocked a seasonal-best time of\u00a020.73 to win the half-lap race. That mark currently ranks No. 1 in the Big West, No. 22 in the NCAA West Region, and No. 44 nationally.
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\n\tFlores also contributed to a victorious 4x100m relay team (40.51).\u00a0
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\n\tLong Beach State took home the Challenge Cup team trophy with 166 points.\u00a0
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Also nominated: Ian Dossman (Cal State Fullerton), Justin Johnson (UC Irvine), Matthew Staples (UC Santa Barbara).<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tRyan Gregory, Long Beach State | Senior \u2022 Owatonna, Minn.
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\n\tLong Beach State\u2019s Ryan Gregory\u00a0had a standout decathlon performance at the Bryan Clay Multis Invitational\u00a0to claim The Big West Field Athlete of the Week honor. It is Gregory’s\u00a0second\u00a0career weekly honor, having won it once in 2025.
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\n\tThe Beach senior from Owatonna, Minn.\u00a0placed\u00a0third overall,\u00a0second among collegiate competitors, with a score of 7,810 points, just shy of a personal-best of 7,899.
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\n\tThe\u00a0mark ranks\u00a0first in the Big West, fourth in the NCAA West Region, and fourth in the nation.\u00a0
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\n\tDuring the decathlon, Gregory secured event wins in the javelin (58.71m\/192’7″) and the 1500m (4:26.21), while also recording a personal bests in the 400m (48.66) and shotput (12.35m\/40’6.25″).
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Also nominated: Joe Duggan (UC Irvine), Zach Lewis (UC San Diego), Hudson Shaver (UC Santa Barbara), Javier Toro (Cal State Bakersfield), Judah Withey (Cal State Fullerton).<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tAoife Hernon, UC Irvine | Graduate \u2022 Mountain View, Calif.
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\n\tUC Irvine\u2019s Aoife Hernon\u00a0won the 400m race at the Challenge Cup\u00a0to take home the Big West Women’s Track Athlete of the Week recognition. It is Hernon’s first career weekly honor.
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\n\tThe Anteater graduate student broke a 35-year-old school record with a personal-best effort of 54.05 in the one-lap event. The time currently ranks fourth in The Big West.\u00a0
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Also nominated: Trinity Barnett (Long Beach State), Jahzara Davis (Cal State Fullerton), Eden Enoru (UC San Diego), Parker Halgren (UC Santa Barbara).<\/p>\n
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\n\t\t\tJoy Anderson, UC Irvine | Freshman \u2022 Lakewood, Calif.
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\n\tUC Irvine’s Joy Anderson set a new school record in the heptathlon at the Bryan Clay Multis Invitational\u00a0to collect the Big West Women’s Field Athlete of the Week accolade. It is Anderson’s first career weekly honor.\u00a0
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\n\tThe freshman broke a 17-year-old school record with 5,572 points.\u00a0Anderson’s mark ranks first in the Big West, 10th in the West Region, and 14th in all of NCAA Division I this season.
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\n\tOn the first day of action, Anderson started and ended with personal records that rank among the top-10 in program history. The Lakewood, Calif. native crossed the\u00a0finish line of the 100m hurdles\u00a0in 13.89 seconds, which ranks\u00a0eighth on UCI\u2019s all-time charts. Anderson cracked the top-10 again in the 200m, running the sixth-fastest time in program history\u00a0at 23.98.
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\n\tThe Anteater rookie\u00a0added season bests in the shot put (11.47m\/37’7.75″), long jump (5.28m\/17’4″), and 800m (2:12.16) over the course of the performance.
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Also nominated: Jessica Mackenzie (UC Santa Barbara), Feyi Olukanni (UC San Diego), Sydney Roquebrun (Cal State Fullerton), Jonelle Scott (Long Beach State).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links All-Time Weekly Winners >>> Men’s Track Athlete of the Week Tristyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-269084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}