LOS ANGELES, Calif. – UC San Diego track and field went head-to-head with three Big West opponents – CSUN, Long Beach State, and UC Riverside, in Friday's Matador Invite, hosted by CSUN. Overall, the team combined for 11 event winners, six for the men and five from the women. In addition, three performances made their way into the Triton record books.
 
INSIDE THE MEET
MEN:
All-Time Performances:

• Kalobe Jimenez – 110 hurdles (14.69/second overall/eighth all-time)
• Zach Aanstoots – High Jump (6'10.75"/first overall/ third all-time)
• UC San Diego 4x100 relay - Christopher Erpelding, Kyle McCray, Tristan Lee, Nolan Crespo (41.75/first overall/ninth all-time) 

Event Winners:

• UC San Diego 4x100 relay – (41.75)
• UC San Diego 4x400 relay – Kalobe Jimenez, Jake Selstad, Andrew Thomas, Maximilian Halvax (3:20.53)
• Evan Shimasaki – Pole Vault (15'9.25")
• McCray – 100 (10.94)
• Selstad – 800 (1:52.60)
• Aanstoots – High Jump (6'10.75")

WOMEN
Event Winners:

• UC San Diego 4x100 relay – Jenna Mencarelli, Lizzie Dolan, Megan Mattson, Mckenna Meaney (48.10)
• Caitlin Billman – 1500 (4:47.76)
• Czarina Dominguez – 800 (2:17.24)
• Gloria Kalt – 400 hurdles (1:02.84)
• Mencarelli – 200 (25.76)
   

RESULTS
Click here for the complete results (PDF).
 
QUOTABLE
"It was a good showing today," said Men's Head Coach Tony Salerno. "Week after week, our athletes have been head-to-head with some of the better teams in the Big West. We have really showed that we can compete to win in just about every event."

TRITON TIDBITS

• It was the Tritons' first time competing at the Matador Invitational.
• Aanstoots has had back-to-back successful weekends after reaching a new personal best in the high jump at the Long Beach Invite on April 17. He surpassed that mark on Friday by 1.25". 
• Jimenez etched his name into the record books early in the season at number nine in the 110 hurdles at the Aztec Invite on Mar. 27. Friday's performance bumped him to eighth in program history.

UP NEXT
UC San Diego will continue its inaugural Division I season in the UC Riverside, UC Irvine, and Long Beach State Tri-Meet on April 29-May 1.
 
About UC San Diego Athletics
After two decades as one of the most successful programs in NCAA Division II, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program has begun a new era as a member of the Big West Conference in NCAA Division I. The 23-sport Tritons earned 30 team and nearly 150 individual national championships during its time in Divisions II and III and helped guide 1,400 scholar-athletes to All-America honors. A total of 83 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 37 have garnered prestigious NCAA Post Graduate Scholarships. UC San Diego scholar-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent, one of the highest rates among institutions at all divisions. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.
 
Return To Sport… Safely
In order for UC San Diego scholar-athletes to be permitted to return to training and competition safely and within federal, state, local and university guidelines, the athletic department implemented a number of measures designed to complement and enhance the university's highly-successful Return To Learn program.  Notable actions include being physically distanced when practical, including during out-of-season training sessions; wearing masks, except when undergoing physically strenuous exercise; and maintaining proper hygiene.  Athletes, coaches and staff are testing at a higher frequency than the campus population, teams adhere to CDC, NCAA and Big West Conference guidelines and department officials participate in regular meetings with conference and university-affiliated physicians and the UC San Diego emergency operations staff.