Complete Results

SEATTLE (Jan. 27) ­ Latasha Essien became Seattle Pacific University's newest national qualifier and ran her way to No. 2 on the Falcons' all-time indoor 60-meter list at the Washington Invitational track and field meet Saturday.

In all, Seattle Pacific now has a combination of seven automatic and provisional marks through the first two meets. Jessica Pixler (Fr., Sammamish, Wa./Eastlake), already an automatic qualifier in the mile, met the provisional standard Saturday in the 800 with a time of 2 minutes, 14.47 seconds. She was ninth.

Nyema Sims (Fr., Portland, Or./Jefferson) of SPU finished fourth in the second finals section of the 60, just ahead of Essien (Fr., Portland, Or./Reynolds) who was fifth. Both Sims (7.69) and Essien (7.75) ran their best times in the qualifying heats. Sims had set the school record of 7.63 seconds two weeks ago.

In the 200, Sims won her heat in 25.39, good for No. 2 on the Great Northwest Athletic Conference and school career list. Essien first in her heat (26.15) as well.

Other highlights were Anna Walters (Fr., Spokane, Wa.North Central) winning her heat of the 400 in 59.85 and Karin Rohde (Jr., Bellingham, Wa./Mt. Baker) taking second in her section of the mile in 5:03.77.

The next indoor competition is the Washington Open Feb. 10-11.