LONG BEACH, California — Utah Valley University saw three outdoor school records hit on the final day of the Beach Invitational and Bryan Clay Invitational on Saturday in Southern California.
 
The trio of records came at Long Beach State's meet, where Quincy Bonds set at PR and took over UVU's top spot in the 100-meter hurdles, Noah Peterson matched his pole vault record, and the men's 4x100 also broke a record the same quartet set just two weeks ago at the home meet.
 
Caleb Furnell, Cameron Franklin, Kade Thompson, and Gabriel Remy finished second at the meet and set the program record with a time of 40.36 seconds in Saturday's 4x100. Peterson equaled his personal best of 5.16 meters in the pole vault. Bonds' new program record of 13.49 seconds was followed by Paige Young's finish in 13.95 seconds, which puts her a No. 3 at Utah Valley.
 
Thompson also set a personal record in the 100-meter race, finishing in 10.48 seconds for the No. 6 spot in the top 10 while Sarah Ballard moved into a three-way tie in the 10th spot of the women's 100 with a time of 11.96 seconds.
 
Austin Kleinman had a big weekend for Utah Valley, setting a personal record on each of the three days of competition. After setting a 47.41-meter PR in the discus on Thursday, Kleinman had a personal best in the hammer on Friday. He improved in the discus again on Saturday at Long Beach State, hitting 47.97 meters.
 
Among the other throwers at the Beach Invitational, Alyssa Logan moved into No. 4 in the hammer (53.12m) on Friday while Luis Diaz Bojorquez increased his No. 3 mark in the top 10 with a throw of 16.36 meters.
 
On Friday at the Bryan Clay Invitational, Caila Odekirk won her heat of the women's 5,000-meters and also set a new PR, improving on the No. 3 mark at Utah Valley with a time of 15:59.78. Morgan Nokes was sixth in the race and moved into No. 4 at UVU with her finish in 16:04.95.
 
On Saturday at Long Beach State, Nokes took first place in a women's 1,500 that was full of Wolverines at the top of the leaderboard. Utah Valley had the top four finishers overall and eight of the top 10 in the 1,500-meter run, with Nokes, Eliese Hohmann, and Emily Morden each taking first in their heats.

The Wolverine men also had a pair of top 10 marks on Friday at the La Verne Distance Carnival with Gilbert Olivas and Henry Giles taking third and fourth, respectively, in the men's 5,000. Olivas' time of 14:18.70 puts him at No. 8 at UVU while Giles had a time of 14:20.69, giving him the ninth spot in the top 10.
 
Olivas also climbed in the top 10 in the 1,500 on Saturday at the Bryan Clay, hosted by Azusa Pacific University. Olivas finished his with his PR at the DI level with a time of 3:49.45. His collegiate personal best (3:48.14) came at the 2023 Bryan Clay when he was competing at Paradise Valley CC.
 
Next week, Utah Valley is scheduled to send competitors to the Mt. Sac Relays (April 17-20) and the Southern Utah's Coliseum Championships (April 20).