Outdoor Field Athlete-of-the-Week: Trystin Chapel, Rocky Mountain
Chapel, a freshman from Billings, Mont., was selected as the Field Athlete-of-the-Week.
He leaped the best mark in the NAIA this season in the long jump for Rocky Mountain at the Yellowjacket/Battlin’ Bear Icebreaker Open. He became the first male this season to hit an ‘A’ automatic qualifying standard, winning the title with 7.47 meters leap (24 feet, 6.25 inches).
In his outdoor collegiate debut, Chapel also won the triple jump with a school record mark of 13.90 meters (45 feet, 7.25 inches), which is the ninth best in the NAIA.