FULLERTON, Calif. — The UC San Diego track and field record books will need some updating after the Tritons' performance at Cal State Fullerton's Titan Tune-Up meet on Friday. Twelve scholar-athletes combined to set 13 new top-ten marks in UC San Diego history Friday afternoon to accompany eight event wins for the Tritons.
 
Nolan Crespo (100 and 200-meter dash) and Matthew Amankonah (shot put and discus) each set two of those new all-time marks themselves. Lizzie Dolan and Idara Ibekwe helped the Tritons' 4x100-meter relay team secure a new top-ten result, then each proceeded to set individual top-ten marks, in the 100-meter hurdles and the 100-meter dash respectively.
 
Adding to Friday's eight victories, five Tritons who fell just short of an overall win did still come home as the top collegiate athlete in their events. Crespo took that honor in the 100 meters, as did Ibekwe in the same event on the women's side. Chelsey Romo was the top collegiate finisher in the 800-meter run, her highest placing of the season. Jumpers Phoebe Ladd and Julia Di Silvestri topped the collegiate charts in the long jump and triple jump respectively.
 
INSIDE THE MEET
MEN:
All-Time Performances:

• Kalobe Jimenez — 110-meter Hurdles (14.16/first overall/improves on third all time)
• Nolan Crespo — 100-meter Dash (10.47/second overall/improves on second all time) and 200-meter Dash (21.41/first overall/improves on third all time)
• Kyle McCray — 100-meter Dash (10.67/fifth overall/fifth all time)
• Kiasa Salgado — 400-meter Hurdles (52.23/first overall/improves on fourth all time)
• Matthew Amankonah — Discus (166' 0"/tenth overall/improves on seventh all time) and Shot Put (56' 0"/third overall/improves on second all time)
• Miles Bennett — High Jump (6' 8.75"/third overall/tied for eighth all time)

Event Winners:

• Kalobe Jimenez — 110-meter Hurdles (14.16)
• Kiasa Salgado — 400-meter Hurdles (52.23)
• Zach Aanstoots — High Jump (6' 8.75")
• Nolan Crespo — 100-meter Dash (21.41)

WOMEN:
All-Time Performances:

• 4x100-meter Relay (Lizzie Dolan, Idara Ibekwe, Jenna Mencarelli, Mckenna Meaney) — 41.62 (first overall/improves on fourth all time)
• Lizzie Dolan — 100-meter Hurdles (14.24/first overall/sixth all time)
• Megan Mattson — 100-meter Hurdles (14.29/second overall/improves on seventh all time)
• Idara Ibekwe — 100-meter Dash (12.03/second overall/improves on ninth all time)
• Maxine Schultz — 200-meter Dash (24.42/first overall/fifth all time)

Event Winners:

• 4x100-meter Relay (Dolan, Ibekwe, Mencarelli, Meaney) — 41.62
• Lizzie Dolan — 100-meter Hurdles (14.24)
• Amari Jenkins — 400-meter Hurdles (1:00.78)
• Maxine Schultz — 200-meter Dash (24.42)

QUOTABLE
"It was one impressive mark after another today at Fullerton," Co-Head Coach Darcy Ahner said. "The team showed once again that they not only belong at the Division I level but that they are ready to compete to win."

 TRITON TIDBITS

• By setting new all-time marks in both the discus and shot put on Friday, Matthew Amankonah joins Idara Ibekwe as the only Tritons to set multiple all-time marks at a single meet more than once this season. Both have accomplished the feat twice
• The Tritons' 13 new top ten marks in program history are the most they have set at a single meet this season; their previous best was 12, set at the Vince O'Boyle Classic in Irvine at the beginning of April
• UC San Diego swept the hurdle events on Friday, taking top spot in all four. These are only the seventh and eighth events that the Tritons have won in both men's and women's competition at the same meet this season

UP NEXT
The Tritons who did not compete on Friday will instead be in action on Saturday, as UC San Diego will take part in the Occidental Invitational at Occidental College in Los Angeles. Next weekend will be the Tritons' final competition of the season, as they return to Azusa Pacific University for the APU Last-Chance meet, May 13-14.
 
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 38 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 90 percent, the highest rate among public institutions in Division I or II. For more information on the Tritons, visit UCSDtritons.com or follow UC San Diego Athletics on social media @UCSDtritons.