{"id":337365,"date":"2026-05-29T11:15:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337365\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T11:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T11:15:22","slug":"fitzgerald-wraps-up-season-at-ncaa-west-preliminary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/337365\/","title":{"rendered":"FITZGERALD WRAPS UP SEASON AT NCAA WEST PRELIMINARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2014 Hornet senior <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/track\/roster\/ava-fitzgerald\/10668\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10668\" target=\"_blank\">Ava Fitzgerald<\/a> closed her brilliant Sacramento State career on Thursday night after competing in the women&#8217;s 100-hurdles at the NCAA West Preliminary at Arkansas. Fitzgerald finished in 38th place after running 13.62 seconds to place sixth in her heat which left her .16 seconds behind the final advancing position.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Roseville, Minn., native will depart Sacramento State as the school record holder in the indoor 60-hurdles (8.29) and outdoor 100-hurdles (13.34). She was a two-time Big Sky champion, three-time NCAA West Preliminary qualifier and a nine-time all-Big Sky honoree.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe NCAA West Preliminary will continue on Friday with <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/track\/roster\/eli-kaltreider\/10676\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10676\" target=\"_blank\">Eli Kaltreider<\/a> in the high jump, <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/track\/roster\/jamar-andrews-jr-\/10702\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10702\" target=\"_blank\">Jamar Andrews, Jr.<\/a>, in the triple jump and <a href=\"https:\/\/hornetsports.com\/sports\/track\/roster\/myles-mcfarland\/10714\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10714\" target=\"_blank\">Myles McFarland<\/a> in the 110-hurdle quarterfinals. \u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2014 Hornet senior Ava Fitzgerald closed her brilliant Sacramento State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-337365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337365","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=337365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}