There was no monopoly of the Big West track & field weekly honors this week as five different schools had an athlete claim one of the accolades.

On the track side of the awards, the men's honor was split between Carl Dargitz of Cal Poly and Matthew Maldonado of Long Beach State, while Cal State Fullerton's Lauren Williams garnered the women's honor.       

Dargitz, a junior from San Diego, Calif., ran the steeplechase in 9:01.70 at the Jackie Joyner Kersee/Rafer Johnson Invitational, the top time in the Big West and and an NCAA Regional qualifying mark. Maldonado, freshman from Modesto, Calif., finished the 1500-meter run in 3:47.76, good for second at the Big West Challenge. The time is the third-best in the conference, third-best in program history and betters his previous lifetime best by over 10 seconds.

Williams, a sophomore from Chino Hills, Calif., was a double winner at the Big West Challenge, taking home first in the 100 hurdles (13.77) and 400 hurdles (1:04.03). Her mark in the 100 hurdles is the top effort in the Big West, 10th in the West Region and 43rd nationally.

The field awards of the week went to UC Irvine's Matt Lahti on the men’s side and UC Riverside's Allison Wilder on the women’s end.
 
Lahti, a junior from Murrieta, Calif., won the hammer throw with a lifetime-best mark of 61.87m (203’) at the Big West Challenge.  The mark is the third-best performance in Anteater history.

Wilder, a junior from Covina, Calif., finished first in the triple jump at the Jackie Joyner Kersee/Rafer Johnson Invitational with a mark of 41-04.5. That jump is the longest in the Big West this season and more than a foot farther than the second-best mark. In addition, Wilder broke her own school record in the event.