SAN DIEGO, Calif. ---- Just one day after taking over Northern California at the San Francisco State Distance Carnival and Stanford Invitational Head Coach Sean Henning's track & field team traveled south to compete at the UC San Diego Cal Collegiate Invitational.
 
It was a busy day for the Eagles as they had over 40 individual events run. 
 
"All in all, a solid weekend across the board," said Henning, in reference to all three meets. "We achieved three national standards and had a couple others who were very close as well."
 
Ambernicole Hollinger continued her great season by breaking her school record in the hammer throw again by tossing 45.34 meters. She also finished fourth overall in the shot put.
 
The field events went well for the Eagles on Saturday. Hollinger's record-setting performance was added to by a NAIA standard reaching performance by freshman Sarah Prystupa in the pole vault. She cleared 3.57 meters, which was the fifth-highest vault of the meet.
 
Ashley Otah continues to improve as she gets more meets under her belt. She ran a personal-best in the 100m hurdles and also set her collegiate best when she cleared 11.17 meters in the triple jump to finish sixth overall.
 
The 400m dash was another strong event for Biola as Emily Heisinger and Carissa Kalpakjian both finished near the top half of the field. Heisinger completed the course in 1:00.43 and Kalpakjian was just a half of a second back at 1:00.97. It was the first event of the season for Heisinger and the first open 400m race of Kalpakjian's collegiate career.
 
Same distance, different event went well for Brian Marcus. He competed in the 400m hurdles and came close to the national qualifier with his :56.59 fifth-place finish.
 
Aditya Lal also shone bright for the men's team. He is trending upwards as he ran his season-best in the 800m. He finished 10^th with a 1:57.92. He was one of six men to finish with a 1:57. He also competed in the 200m dash.
 
Biola continues its schedule this weekend with a Saturday meet at Pomona-Pitzer.