Anastasia Pearse and Calum Innes led TWU to the team title at the Richmond Olympic Oval.

While track and field is an individual sport, it took a team effort for the Trinity Western University Spartans to win an inaugural meet in Richmond over the weekend.

TWU athletes combined for the team title at the Pacific World Cup, part of the first 2013 Vancouver Sun Harry Jerome Indoor Games on Saturday at the Richmond Olympic Oval. The Spartans beat out teams made up of athletes from UBC, Victoria, and Simon Fraser to capture the title.

"I'm really pleased with our team effort today," Spartans' coach Laurier Primeau said. "In what is traditionally viewed as an individual sport, it was just fantastic for us to have such great brotherhood and camaraderie on the track and in the field. I'm proud and impressed with the whole team and looking forward to the meet in Seattle."

The Spartans had a number of impressive performances, notably Anastasia Pearse, who finished first in the 300m with a time 41.38 seconds, second in the 600m in 1:39.58, and helped the Spartans to top spot in the 4x400m relay, with the team finishing in a school record time of 4:02.32. There was no previous TWU record.

Pearse's 300m time also broke the Spartans previous record of 42.40, set by Kendra Peters in 2010-11.

"Anastasia was an example of our team mentality," Primeau said. "She did a lot of running today and all I heard from her were team-oriented comments. It would have been easy for her to ask me to put someone else on that 4x400m relay team, but she didn't."

Calum Innes also was a big point-earner for TWU. The native of Bearsden, Scotland won both the 60m, in 7.01, and the 60m hurdles, in 8.28.

Fiona Benson's 600m-winning time of 1:36.43 broke the previous TWU record of 1:39.40, set by Peters in 2010/11.

WOMEN'S

60m final

3rd - Liza Whitehead - 7.68

Preliminaries

7th - Hazel Ross - 8.05 (qualified for final but didn't run)

17th - Ayla Akehurst - 8.39

19th - Marie Belsterling - 8.46

22nd - Lisa Geck - 8.52

24th - Ashleigh Varona - 8.64

25th - Miranda Glenn - 8.77

26th - Ivonne Zuniga - 8.89

27th - Dara Dejong - 9.07

300m

1st - Anastasia Pearse - 41.38

5th - Maya Daly - 42.93

13th - Marie Belsterling - 44.86

15th - Jordyn Visser - 45.28

600m

1st - Fiona Benson - 1:36.43

2nd - Anastasia Pearse - 1:39.58

1000m

2nd - Meg Harradine - 3:10.98

3rd - Nikki Bell - 3:21.45

4th - Laura Merkle - 3:25.65

1500m

1st - Alison Jackson - 4:55.88

60m hurdles final

2nd - Hazel Ross - 8.87

4th - Maya Daly - 9.23

Preliminaries

6th - Ivonne Zuniga - 10.09

8th - Jordyn Visser - 11.02

4x400m relay

1st - Trinity Western - 4:02.32

High jump

1st - Emma Nuttall - 1.70m

MEN'S

60m final

1st - Calum Innes - 7.01

3rd - Nick Ayin - 7.13

4th - Jamie Sinclair - 7.14

7th - Tunji Taylor-Lewis - 7.30

Preliminary

6th - James Linde - 7.24 (false started in final)

12th - Jesse Phillips - 7.34

300m

1st - James Linde - 36.21

4th - Nick Ayin - 37.01

8th - Mihai Prajea - 38.09

12th - Adam Marchinko - 38.43

600m

1st - Mihai Prajea - 1:23.59

5th - Lucas Ference - 1:27.24

1000m

2nd -Levi Neufeld - 2 :33.94

4th - Nathan Goodwin - 2:35.82

5th - Chris Voth - 2:35.83

1500m

5th - Joel Deshiffart - 4:03.73

60m hurdles final

1st - Calum Innes - 8.33

4x400m relay

2nd - Trinity Western - 3:33.25

High jump

3rd - Stephen Humphrey - 1.90m

Shot put

2nd -Ralph Alvaro - 10.86m