By Noah Lones
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Both the Men’s and Women’s Indoor Track and Field teams competed for their conference titles. Both teams finished with two individual conference titles each along with multiple podium finishers.
Men’s Events
The Men finished with two individual conference titles in the 4x800m Relay and the Long Jump. Along with these two individual titles, they had seven podium finishers.
Zane Marlow, Jack Headrick, Dani Meisen, and Stephen Kerley of the 4x800m Relay won the competition with a convincing victory of 8:02.45. The relay team that came in second place was almost 15 seconds slower with a time of 8:17.25.
In the Long Jump event, Armoni Hicks won with a 7.00m jump on his last attempt to capture the conference title.
The Bulldogs finished with seven podium finishers in four separate events including the Distance Medley Relay, 60m dash, 400m Race, and 4x400m Relay. Caleb Greene, Tyler Bowers, Zane Marlow, and Mack Alas finished in second place.
The team finished the conference championship meet fourth overall.
Women’s Events
The Women also finished with two individual conference titles in the 60m hurdles and the High Jump. Along with these two individual titles, they had four podium finishers.
Samantha DeGrace won both the 60m hurdles and High Jump for the Bulldogs. She won the 60m hurdles with a time of 9.05 seconds. She set a meet record of 1.71m in the High Jump.
Th other four podium finishers came from the Distance Medley Relay. The team included Kaelyn Pluta, McKenna Hubbard, Victoria Verran, and Molly Woodby.
The Women finished the conference championship meet in sixth place.
Nationals
The Bulldogs will be sending four national qualifiers to Gainesville, Florida this week for a chance at being named First-Team All-Americans. The four qualifiers include Ke’Andrae Campbell and KT Buchanan for the 60m Dash, Dakota Caldwell for the 3000m Race Walk, and Samantha DeGrace for the High Jump competition.
Photo by Dakota Caldwell
Editorial Assistance by Gabe Katz