Pine Belt Times

Track & Field Finish Vanderbilt Invitational With School Record

The Southern Miss track and field team finishes its weekend at the Vanderbilt Invitational with another school record broken, along with some personal bests. 

"This was a much tougher weekend for us. We had a lot of competition; there were some really talented teams at this meet," said head coach Jon Stuart. "Even if some events and performances fell short of our expectations, I believe we competed well today. And we have improved in many events, which I believe will help propel us toward our goals in two weeks when we return to Birmingham." 

The Black & Gold faced tough competition this weekend but found a new school record in the Pentathlon. The record was previously set by Ashley Reyer on Feb. 23, 2007, with 3,801 points and has now been replaced by Safiya John, with 3,876 points finding herself a second-place finish. 

Michael Stallworth, Katelyn Cartwright, Jared Williams, Tomek Przybylak, and Mar'Ques McCray improved their personal marks over the two-day meet. 

 

MEN

60m- Dee Baker, 16th, 7.00/ Cameron Covy, 31st, 7.17

200m- Omar Austin, 8th, 21.90/ Dee Baker, 17th, 22.39/ Jared Williams, 35th, 23.17/ Lamont Moss, 41st, 24.90

400m- Omar Austin, fifth, 47.55/ Landon Chalden, 24th, 50.68

800m- Tomek Przybylak, 18th, 1:54.62/ Mar'Ques McCray, 22nd, 1:55.93/ Dylan Evans, 23rd, 1:56.00

Mile- Austin Bourne, 52nd, 4:31.42

60m hurdles- Jared Williams, second, 8.02 (finals) 

4x400m- Chalden, Austin, Moss, Fullerton, eighth, 3:19.40 

DMR- Bourne, Evans, McCray, Przybylak, seventh, 10:26.69

High Jump- Zayne Palomino, seventh, 1.93m 

Long Jump- Michael Stallworth, 11th, 7.08m/ DJ Hurd, 22nd, 6.72m 

Triple Jump- Keshun Byrd, eighth, 14.90m 

Weight Throw- Kaya Ludgood, 19th, 16.23m 

WOMEN

60m- Kenia Seals, fourth, 7.56 (finals)/ Trinity Benson, sixth, 7.64 (finals) / Trinity Flagler, ninth, 7.66

200m- Jada McDougle, third, 24.56/ Destiny Charles, fourth, 24.61/ Kenia Seals, ninth, 24.96/ Trinity Flagler, 12th, 25.08/ Trinity Benson, 16th, 25.20

800m- Smilla Kolbe, 10th, 2:14.59

Mile- Katelyn Cartwright, 30th, 5:08.82/ Sarah Parnell, 32nd, 5:11.33

3000m- Isabela Ross, fifth, 9:41.81/ Oliwia Wawrzyniak, 18th, 9:56.15/ Erin Phelps, 24th, 10:02.89

5000m- Carlin Beal, sixth, 17:33.46/ Rees Van Voorhis, 21st, 18:31.56 

60m hurdles- Janet Nkwoparah, 31st, 10.35

4x400m- Benson, McDougle, Flagler, Charles, second, 3:49.99

DMR- Parnell, Kolbe, Cartwright, Phelps, seventh, 12:15.64

Long Jump- Mylani Galbreath, 23rd, 5.56m/ Zhariah Taylor, 36th, 5.27m 

Pentathlon- Safiya John, second, 3,876 pts

High Jump Open- Zhariah Taylor, first, 1.67m 

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