Women's Track and Field

Cox, Bankas Earn Weekly Acclaim


UC San Diego’s Claudia Cox and Lily Bankas of Humboldt State have earned CCAA Track & Field Athlete of the Week for April 1-7, respectively.

For the third straight week and fifth time of the 2019 season, Cox has earned weekly accolades from the conference. The junior from Greenville, N.C. Claudia Cox placed fourth overall in the 400 meter hurdles at the Sun Angel Classic, crossing the finish line in 59.59 seconds and again reaching the provisional qualifying standard. Her mark is just over four-tenths of a second off her fastest time ever recorded earlier this season (59.18 s), as Cox finished behind only Division I competitors from Kansas State, Iowa and BYU on Saturday.

Bankas, a thrower for Humboldt State, earned a first-place finish in the discus with a toss of 45.76 meters (150’ 1”) at the Chico Distance Carnival and Twilight Invitational. The senior from Castro Valley now ranks second in the program record book and was good for a provisional qualifying mark. Bankas also placed second in the shot put after throwing the device 13.28 meters to land two-tenths of a meter behind the first place finisher. She also ran the second leg of the 4x100 meter relay in which the Jacks finished third out of seven teams.

Next on the docket for Humboldt State is a split weekend with competitions at the Warrior Multi-Event in Turlock as well as the Raider Invite in Ashland, Ore. UC San Diego takes to its home track for the Triton Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

Also nominated:
Track -
Akia Walker, Stanislaus State
Field -
Natalie Caraway, UC San Diego
Valetina Sanabria, Cal State San Bernardino
 
2019 CCAA Women’s Track & Field Weekly Awards
Track Athlete of the Week Field Athlete of the Week
Feb. 11-17 Claudia Cox, UC San Diego Victoria Soto, Cal State San Bernardino
Feb. 18-24 Valexsia Droughn, Cal State LA Breanna Lowther, Stanislaus State
Feb. 25-March 3 Claudia Cox, UC San Diego Petrice Beattie, Stanislaus State
March 4-10 Angelina Ronquillo, Cal State East Bay Natalie Caraway, UC San Diego
March 11-17 Nicole Anthony, Chico State Gabby Eshiet, UC San Diego
March 18-24 Claudia Cox, UC San Diego Courtney Massengale, San Francisco State
March 25-31 Claudia Cox, UC San Diego Esther Nofodji, UC San Diego
April 1-7 Claudia Cox, UC San Diego Lily Bankas, Humboldt State