After a long exciting season, the Women’s track and field team will be having a nice, well-rounded two-week break.

“We are at the point of the season where we could use a weekend off from the mental and physical stressors of competition,” coach Dean Lofgren said.

Next stop for the women will be Mt. SAC for an-all day relay Saturday, April 9.

The team will go to Long Beach for an invitational, in which only those who qualified will compete.

The team the prepares for the South Coast Conference preliminaries and finals, which will be at Compton April 19 and April 23.

“The SCC finals will mean two things: the top six in each event will qualify for the SCC Preliminaries and the most importantly conference pride,” Lofgren said.

Saturday, the team was at Long Beach competing in an open invitational.

In field events, Star Thurman captured first place in the triple jump with a leap of 36-1/2. Thurman finished third in the long jump 16-1.

Mysheva Murphy scored 87 for first place in the javelin throw while Angela Morales finished second in the shot put with a throw of 36-11/2.

As for the track team, in the 400-meter team relay Shameer Dawson with Danyelle and Gabrielle Meniefield finised second at 49.24.

“We did a good job in all the relay, but we know we could have done way better,” Dawson said.

Dawson captured second in the 200-meter with a time of 25.29, 58.24 in the 400-meter which also qualified for the Southern California Finals. During her final event, Dawson, Lindsey Brown, Danyelle and Gabrielle Meniefield, captured third in the 1,600-meter relay with a time of 4:02.15.

“I’m very excited to hear that I already qualified for the state finals for the four hundred,” Dawson said.