SEATTLE (May 13) -- Nathanael Castle and Laura Widman of Seattle Pacific University were selected as male and female track & field athletes of the week in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference following season-best performances at the Foreman Invitational.

Castle (Sr., Gooding, Id.) cut 2.8 seconds off his NCAA Division II provisional national qualifying mark in the 1500 meters, finishing fifth in a career-best time of 3:50.44. It also matched the No. 2 time in SPU history.

Widman (Jr., Colfax, Wa.) won the heptathlon and posted a provisional national qualifying mark in the long jump in the process. Her winning score of 5004 points is the fifth-best mark nationally and she bettered the national standard with a GNAC season-best mark of 19-0 3/4 in the long jump.

The NCAA Championships are May 23-25 in San Angelo, Tx.