Kent State University
Texas Relays
Flashes set Seven New Top-10 Marks in North Carolina and Texas
3/30/2024 5:34:00 PM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field
KENT - The Kent State track and field teams competed this weekend in four different meets across the country. On Thursday the Flashes got started in Raleigh, N.C. at the Raleigh Relays with the distance squad, the sprinters competed on Friday in Austin and San Marcos, Tex. at the Texas Relays and the Texas State Bobcat Invitational. Finally, the rest of the team headed down to Cincinnati for the Oliver Nikoloff Invitational. In total the Golden Flashes added six new all-time top-ten performances. No meets were team scored.
In Raleigh, junior Baidy Ba led in a loaded men's 1500-meter run featuring over 200 athletes, he finished 76th overall with a time of 3:49.49, and graduate student Trey Double dropped over four seconds of his previous career best with a time of 3:52.37. On Friday, sophomore Karsyn Spears notched a personal best in the women's 1500-meter run of 4:35.44. Saturday saw graduate student Quintin Cooks finish 20th in the men's 800-meter run with a new personal best and 10th best performance in program history of 1:50.42 and Double set a second personal best with a 1:52.08.
In Texas, the women's 4x100-meter relay of seniors Taylor Korytkowski and Azsah Bradley and freshmen Amryne Chilton and Yissis Cortijo Dominc ran the sixth fastest time in school history with a 45.90 just .29 seconds off the program record set in 2001. In the men's race, the team of freshmen Sean Callahan Jr. and Connor Boland and seniors Jaheim Jones and Dejon Manning tied for the seventh-best performance in program history. Jones and Callahan Jr. were not done rewriting the record books after that. In the men's 100-meter dash, Jones ran 10.20, the fourth-fastest time in program history en route to a second-place finish. Callahan Jr. placed 10th with a time of 10.29 seconds, good for sixth all time. At the Bobcat Invitational senior Azsah Bradley moved up to number six all-time in the 100-meter dash with a time of 11.80 seconds.
In Cincinnati, graduate student Grace Luther set a new personal best of 185' 9" in the women's hammer throw to move her to eighth all-time, she placed fourth. Fellow graduate student Nolan Landis placed second in the discus throw and shot put with throws of 165' 7" and 53' 6.5". The Flashes claimed the top two spots in the women's discus and high jump, graduate student Gabby Bailey took the win with a throw of 187' 3" and redshirt junior Aliesha Shaw took second with 172' 9". Shaw claimed the women's shot put with a put of 50' 10.25". Sophomore Svenia DeConinck won with a best jump of 5' 9.25" and graduate student Lillie Franks was second with 5' 8". Sophomore Ayden Bath took first place in the men's 110-meter hurdles in 14.35 seconds.
NEXT UP FOR KENT STATE
The Golden Flashes will split squads again next weekend, sending the combined event athletes to the Hurricane Alumni Invitational in Miami, Fla. The rest of the team will compete at either the Tennessee Invite in Knoxville, Tenn., or at the Northeast Ohio Open, hosted by Akron.
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