Track & Field | 2/14/2010 8:53:27 PM

[Meet results]

SEATTLE - The 60m hurdle events highlighted the UW Open for the Western Oregon University men's and women's track & field teams, Sunday (Feb. 14), as two males and two females each recorded career-best marks, all before 8:35 a.m.

Janna Vander Meulen topped her personal record time by .15 seconds, as she posted a time of 9.24 in the short hurdles. That same time earned her fourth place in the event at the UW Open and moved her into third on the 2010 Great Northwest Athletic Conference performance list. It also gave her the fourth-best mark in school-history.

Mandy Keifer ran a time of 9.32 in the 60m hurdles to ascend the Wolves' all-time top 10 list into sixth place. She topped her previous career-best time of 9.43, which she set last season. She also placed her name fourth on the 2010 GNAC performance list.

On the men's side, Andy Loscutoff ran a time of 8.45 in the 60m hurdles to shave two-hundredths of a second off his personal-best time and move into a tie for second in WOU history. Loscutoff qualified for the finals in the event at the meet with a time of 8.60. He then ran a career-best time of 8.45 in the finals to earn third place at the UW Open. That time also helped Loscutoff secure his place atop the GNAC performance list.

Jordan Werner registered a time of 8.67 to move into a tie for third place in the GNAC and to seventh on the Wolves' all-time top 10 list.

"The thing people don't know is that the hurdlers had to be at the arena at 6:50 a.m., this morning," Western Oregon head coach Mike Johnson explained. "They did a good job getting ready to run, because it doesn't matter what time you run; it is how you prepare to run."

In other action, Dustin Boyd recorded a time of 22.53 in the men's 200m dash to put his name fourth on the 2010 GNAC performance list and move into eighth in the school record books.

Mike Schmidt moved into second place on the GNAC performance list and into the No. 7 position on the Wolves' all-time top 10 list with a time of 1:55.97 of in the 800m dash.

Jayce Giddens jumped to third on the conference's performance list in the pole vault after clearing 14-7.25 (4.45m).

"I am very proud of our team for reasons I can't even put in print," Johnson said.

The Western Oregon men's and women's track & field teams will now head to Nampa, Idaho for the GNAC Indoor Championships, Saturday, Feb. 20.

"When you look at the conference as a whole it is not an accident that (the track & field programs) are better than they used to be," Johnson continued. "The coaches and the universities have made a commitment to strive for excellence on the track."