TURLOCK Calif.---   Grace Kasberger highlighted the final day of the Stanislaus State Multi-Event for Cal Poly Humboldt as she won the heptathlon with a personal best 4099 points.  Kasberger finished in second in two of the final three events to key her first-place finish.  In the decathlon, the Jacks' Travis Allen placed third with a personal best 5527 points. 
 
Coming into the last three events of the heptathlon, Kasberger was holding the top spot in the six-person field.  She started the day capturing the long jump with a jump of 16-6 (5.03m).  In her second event of the day, Kasberger captured her fifth first-place mark/time with a throw of 90-8 (27.65m).  Kasberger finished the heptathlon with a time of 2:28.82 which placed her second. 
 
Kasberger finished in first with a person best 4099 points followed by William Jessup's Jayden Jackson's 3866 points.  With her 4099 points, Kasberger is now seventh on the Cal Poly Humboldt All-Time Top Ten List in the heptathlon.
 
Finishing in third was San Francisco State's Shaeylynee Smith with 2058 points followed by Sonoma State's Amber Lanza with 3221 points.   Rounding out the field was Chico State's Tayln Steffens (fifth, 2939 points) and Sonoma State's Mia Oggenfuss (sixth, 2600 points)
 
Allen came into Day Two of the decathlon sitting in third place with 2981 points.  He started the day with a time of 18.27 to finish in seventh-place in the 110-hurdles.  Allen came back to finish third in the discus with a throw of 113-10 (34.70m).  In the pole vault, Allen recorded a personal best mark of 10-6 (3.20m) to finish in fourth place.  Allen in the fourth event of the day finished third with a throw of 149-11 (52.5m).  In the final event of the day, Allen finished in third place with a personal best time of 5:00.3 in the 1500-meter run.
 
Capturing the decathlon was Chico State's Zack Nelson with 5796 points.  Finishing in second place was Justin Craven of Chico State with 5648 points. Cal Poly Humboldt's Travis Allen finished in third with a personal best 5527 points.  UC Santa Cruz's Shea Wissler was next in fourth (5445 points) followed by Daniel Brown also of UC Santa Cruz with 5424 points. Rounding out the field were Alexander Travis of William Jessup (5216 points), Matthew Spiller (3299 points), Kent Kappen (2894 points) and Zdislaw Marcisz (2620 points).
 
HEPTATHLON

JACK STUDENT- ATHLETE	100-METER	HIGH JUMP	SHOT PUT	200-METER	LONG JUMP	JAVELIN	800- METER
Grace Kasberger	16.70 (631) 2nd	5-0.25 (1.53m) (655) 1st	28-5.50 (8.67m) (433) 3rd	27.60 (663) 1st	16-6 5.03m 1st	90-8 (27.65m) 1st	2:28.82 (708) 2nd

 
DECATHLON

JACK STUDENT- ATHLETE	100-METER	LONG JUMP	SHOT PUT	HIGH JUMP	400-METER	110 HURDLES	DISCUS	POLE VAULT	JAVELIN	1500- METERS
Travis Allen	12.11 (629) 5th	20-10 (6.35m) 635) 1st	39-11.25 (12.17m) (617) 2nd	5-6 (1.68m) (528) Tied 4th	56.41 (543) 4th	18.27 (499) 7th	113-10 (34.70m) (558) 3rd	10-6 (3.20m) 4th	149-11 (45.70m) (525) 3rd	5:00.23 (588) 2nd

 
 The rest of the Jacks will be in Sacramento, Calif., to participate in the Sacramento State Invitational beginning at 9am. 
 
QUOTES FROM COACH INGRAM:  "It was two very hot days in Turlock, with temps in mid 90's, easily being 30 degrees hotter than anything our athletes have competed in this spring. We hydrated aggressively the week beforehand and throughout the past two days at the track, and maintained our 'cool' physically and emotionally throughout the 2-day competition.
 
Words cannot describe how proud of these two athletes I am. 
 
After our first heptathlon/decathlon competition went so well in February, with Gracie and Travis hitting personal bests in almost everything, I thought that was going to be a really tough competition to follow, and especially in this extreme heat where it would be difficult to perform to their best ability. I didn't know how we could continue improving at that that same rate, and I feared they would be disappointed at this meet bc you can't hit new personal bests in everything all of the time, especially as these new bests get more and more competitive. However, they continue to impress me with their maturity and confidence in the way they are approaching every competition. 
 
Travis had some of his stronger events this week where he didn't earn as many points as he felt like he should have, but he didn't let himself get down and lose focus. Instead he continued to fight for every opportunity to earn more points elsewhere, and maintained his goal of hitting 5500 points throughout the comp. Today, he set lifetime personal bests of roughly 14" higher bar clearance in the pole vault and cut 7 seconds off of his 1500m time. His day 2 score was a 296-point improvement from his previous best day 2 score in Feb, and he finished with an overall point PR of 371 points in the Decathlon. 
 
In a typical training year for an average athlete an improvement of 400-500 points in a season is considered a success, and Travis has improved 830 points from last year to this year so far, which is astounding. It's really exciting to see this dramatic level of improvement, and also to know that if he can put it all together in the next Dec, he still has so much room for improvement in his overall score and he may be vying for a top 3 conference spot in the Dec in May. 
 
Gracie just blew away the competition this week, earning four 1st place finishes, a couple 2nds, and a 3rd across her seven events. What was most impressive about Grace's competition this week was her consistency in performing so close to all of her lifetime best marks. She didn't set a new personal best in any one individual event this week, but because she was so consistent across the board with no event slumps, she came away with an overall heptathlon lifetime best of 113 points. This is such an important take-away from a multi-event competition, that putting it all together on 2 days is what it's really about, it's that sustained high quality performance average over 7 events that's what really makes a successful competition. And knowing that Gracie can perform so consistently across the board, again despite the heat which can really take the explosive 'pop' out of your legs and make you feel so drained, it just shows us how much she has raised the bar with her new 'average' exceeding her previous best. What this means to me, is that when we have better weather conditions and a 'big meet' atmosphere (which we will certainly have at CCAA Championships), she's going to pop off some big marks and I believe she's going to be knocking on the door of the NCAA provisional qualifying mark by the end of the season.
 
It's been such a joy to watch Gracie and Travis these past two days, earning the respect of their competitors and competing with class, being supportive of each other and fellow competitors and thanking the meet officials and fans. They are model student-athletes, who make us all so proud to be Cal Poly Humboldt."