POCATELLO -- Amidst the snow of Idaho, the BYU Cougars found some bright spots in their performance this weekend at the Mountain State Games where they had an opportunity to mix up their events and evaluate their team before Mountain West Conference Championships in three weeks.
A bright spot for the Cougar women's team was the triple team of hurdlers, Amy Menlove, Miriam Fisher and Hillary Enloe who took first (Menlove --7.93 -- season best), second (Fisher -- 7.97) and fifth (Enloe -- 8.29 -- season best) in the 55m hurdles.
"Actually all our hurdlers did very well today," women's head coach Craig Poole said. "With Amy Menlove's performance she was able to qualify for NCAA's."
Also taking first for the Cougars at the invitational was both the women and men's 1600m-relay team who finished in 3:51.45 and 3:14.83 respectively.
On the men's side BYU's David Chesser placed second in the 400-meter in 47.65, his new personal record and Doug Hall took second in the 1 Mile in 4:15.89.
The men's 3000-meter team took first, fourth and eighth with David Woodbury's first place run in 8:47.39.
"Lots of our men ran off distances today," men's head coach Mark Robison said. "They wanted a change of pace and a strength workout so that is what we do. Overall, they ran well and we had some good events."
The men's shot put was the teams strongest event with the tag-team of Nic and Dan Arrhenius who took first and third respectively. With Dan's throw of 58-03.50, his largest distance thrown indoor, he earned himself a provisional spot at the NCAA's in a month.
Women's coach Poole said that overall the team did not post their best marks but were still sore from hard workouts this week.
"From the standpoint of the circumstances we were in," Poole said, "I feel very upbeat about their performance and plan to prepare the team a little differently to run in Washington, in hopes of posting different marks next week."
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Mountain States Games - 2/6/2004 to 2/7/2004