Boston – Alex Jordan, Rylee Turner and (*3*) submitted program-record performances because the Lynchburg Indoor Track & Field groups competed throughout 4 places in the Hornets’ busiest weekend of the season.
Along with the three faculty information, Lynchburg now boasts eleven athletes or relay groups that occupy nationwide qualifying positions with two weeks till the convention championships. Victoria, Chasen Hunt and Micah Leech personal one of many nation’s top-five marks for their respective occasions.
Program Records
After registering the lads’s 5,000m program document in January, Alex Jordan improved his indoor private greatest by eight seconds with a 14:11.47 efficiency in Boston. The sophomore, who earned Old Dominion Athletic Conference Track Athlete of the Week laurels twice to start the season, maintained constant splits all through the race and accelerated for the ultimate two laps.
Closer to house, Rylee Turner and (*3*) secured program information in the 200m sprint at Liberty University.
Turner toppled Aniya Seward’s earlier document of 25.96 from the 2024 season, clocking 25.83 to put up her third faculty document of the season. In back-to-back weeks, Turner has additionally clinched the ladies’s 300m indoor document, together with competing as a member of the ladies’s 4x400m relay group that submitted a college document final weekend.
In the lads’s 200m, Victoria shattered the earlier document of 21.78 with a 21.52 efficiency to win the open part by three-tenths of a second. The senior switch has earned a podium end in an occasion eight occasions all through his first season with the Hornets.
BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational
In the lads’s 3,000m, Chasen Hunt posted a season-best 8:02.58 in opposition to stellar Division I competitors to complete forty sixth in the open 3,000m discipline. Hunt’s time was the third-fastest in Division III this season, though the senior has posted 7:56.92 in the previous.
Jack Weddle improved his mile PR by three seconds, crossing the road in 4:14.86. Danny Rockey secured a 4:20.54 end.
Tufts Cupid Challenge
A day later, the Lynchburg distance medley relay squad of Randy White, Parker Marshall, Ryan Warner and Chasen Hunt produced a ten:08.82 consequence, which was diminished to 10:00.67 because the group raced on a flat monitor. With the transformed time, the Hornets occupy eleventh in the DIII standings following the weekend’s performances.
Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational
Kaitlyn Ruiz earned her greatest indoor 400m efficiency of the season with a 58.18 mark to complete twenty eighth at Liberty. Ruiz improved to 3rd on Lynchburg’s all-time efficiency listing along with her 400m season greatest.
Kacey Kelly positioned tenth in the ladies’s triple soar (38′ 2¼” or 11.64m), whereas in the lads’s 800m, Jake Sisk (1:57.22) and Matthew Kane (1:57.43) completed eighth and tenth, respectively.
In the lads’s excessive soar, (*3*) cleared the 6′ 7″ (2.01m) bar to complete sixth in the invite flight. Chris Watkins corralled a personal-best mark in the lads’s pole vault with a 14′ 3½” (4.36m) efficiency for seventh.
To spherical out the motion from Liberty, Demetri Hinton provided a pair of top-10 performances. Hinton claimed first in the lads’s lengthy soar decrease part with a 22′ 9¼” (6.94m) leap and seventh in the men’s triple jump upper section (47′ 2¼” or 14.38m).
Joe LaRocco Invitational
To open the day, the Lynchburg ladies’s distance medley relay squad of Sidney Sindt, Samaria Little, Kaitlyn Ruiz and Mya Baker earned first place with a 13:30.90 efficiency.
Winter Tietjen continued her spectacular rookie marketing campaign as a dual-sport athlete with a 5:18.56 private greatest in the ladies’s mile. Tietjen’s time sits simply 4 seconds outdoors this system’s top-10 listing, regardless of the race being Tietjen’s second-ever mile.
On the lads’s aspect, Aidan Riggle claimed the person victory in the lads’s mile with a 4:25.27 private greatest, whereas Logan Amis adopted behind for fifth with a 4:30.88 consequence.
Antaveon Steele cruised to fourth in the lads’s 60m hurdles, clocking 8.57 in prelims and eight.71 in the ultimate. In the lads’s 400m sprint, Noah Austin (52.81) and Blake Henson (53.40) crossed the road in seventh and ninth, respectively.
In the ladies’s 800m, Annalise Williams secured ninth place with a 2:30.36 efficiency in the sector of 43 athletes. For the lads, Joey John registered 2:01.53 for third place, whereas Justin Park completed in 2:02.19 for fourth.
To conclude the weekend, Delaney Saulsbury posted an 18-second PR to complete second in the ladies’s 3,000m, sealing a ten:22.75 efficiency. Georgie Lanham registered 11:04.29 for seventh in the sector.
Lynchburg will compete on the Rockingham Collegiate Open hosted by Bridgewater College on Friday, Feb. 20 because the group prepares for the postseason.
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