NACOGDOCHES/ABILENE, Texas – The Trinity men's and women's track & field teams closed out the weekend by competing at both the War Hawk Classic and the Carl Kight Invitational on Saturday, hosted by McMurry University and Stephen F. Austin State University, respectively.
The Tigers competed in extremely windy conditions that affected results for today, making some of them unusable for NCAA qualifying purposes. Numerous personal records were broken at both meets in both running and field events.
War Hawk Classic, hosted by McMurry
Emilie Mireles (Brownsville, Texas / Hanna Early College) had new personal records in both the high jump and the long jump, while teammate
Ciandra Carrico (San Antonio, Texas / Johnson) edged her previous best mark in the long jump as well. Mireles was sixth in the long jump with a mark of 4.83 meters, while Carrico reached 4.57 meters and finished 10th. Mireles was eighth in the high jump after clearing 1.45 meters to finish eighth with a height that is a season-high for Trinity.
The men's high jump also went well for
Trent Svacina (Alamo Heights, Texas / Alamo Heights) and
Kris Duggan (San Antonio, Texas / Johnson), who tied for fourth after clearing 1.80 meters to match their season-best. Duggan was also sixth in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 14.89 seconds, and Svacina was 14th in 16.27 seconds. Both times are new personal records for the Tiger student-athletes.
Men's long jump, men's and women's triple jump, and men's and women's pole vault results are all not available yet.
Carl Kight Invitational, hosted by Stephen F. Austin
The men's 4x100-meter relay team shaved one-tenth of a second off of their time from last week, finishing sixth in today's race. The team of
Legend Grigsby (Houston, Texas / Cypress Creek),
Orie Piken (Torrance, Calif. / West Torrance),
Brian Rainey (Cedar Hill, Texas / Cedar Hill), and
Price Schultea (Cypress, Texas / Cypress Christian) clocked in at 41.58 seconds.
Grigsby also finished fifth in the men's 100-meter dash in a time of 10.64 seconds that would be a new school record, but doesn't count due to the wind. Schultea matched his PR in the sprint race as well with a time of 10.86 seconds.
Danya Selber (Edinburg, Texas / Robert Vela) led the Tiger women in the 100 with a time of 12.82 seconds, while
Yasmin Subawalla (Houston, Texas / Singapore American School) was right on her teammates heels in a time of 12.91 seconds.
The women's hammer featured two Tigers in the top 15, led by
Kate Ballengee (Albuquerque, N.M. / Bosque School) and her mark of 40.30 meters. That distance is the second-best of the season and is also the third time she has thrown past 40 meters.
Rachel Bell (Manvel, Texas / Lutheran South Academy) was 14th with her throw of 39.39 meters.
Heath Schake (Wimberley, Texas / Wimberley) had a nice throw of 41.77 meters that was just 0.20 away from his personal best, while
Aaron Chang (Fullerton, Calif. / Valley Christian) did manage a personal-record throw of 37.67 meters. Bell led the Tiger women's throwers with a mark of 36.02 meters in the discus, while
Maria Bodden (San Antonio, Texas / Incarnate Word HS) set a new career-best with a throw of 34.60 meters – more than four meters better than her previous record.
The 200-meter dash also saw several personal records fall for the Tiger men and women.
CC Gray (Scottsdale, Ariz. / Notre Dame Prep) led the women with a PR time of 25.36 that was good for 13th place, while
Hayley Huck (Prosper, Texas / Prosper) was 15th with her new personal-best time of 25.51 seconds. Schultea was just 0.02 seconds from his PR in the men's race, finishing 12th in 21.65 seconds. Piken also posted his best time of the season of 22.17 seconds. Subawalla and Selber also had new PR times of 26.69 and 26.79, respectively, for the women.
In the 400-meter dash, Schultea was third with a time of 49.09 seconds, while
Nicolas Ladreyt (Santa Monica, Calif. / Harvard-Westlake School) finished eighth in 49.55 seconds.
Moises Lopez Guarnero (Mexico City, Mexico / TMI Episcopal) also had the second-fastest time of his career in the race, finishing in 53.81 seconds. Gray led the Tiger women with a time of 57.57 seconds that was 10th, while Huck posted a time of 59.45 seconds to finish 18th. The men's 400-meter hurdles also featured three Tigers in the top 20, led by
Justin Johnson (Houston, Texas / Manvel) and his time of 54.76 seconds that was sixth in tonight's race and his second-fastest this year.
Sebastian Buscemi (Wyncote, Pa. / Cheltenham) crossed in a season-best time of 58.77 seconds, while
Jalen Leonce (Allen, Texas / Jesuit College Prep) finished in 59.10 seconds to place 17th – just one spot back of Buscemi.
Will Salony (Dallas, Texas / JJ Pearce) paced Trinity's 800-meter run competitors, finishing 10th in a time of 1:55.89 on Saturday.
Sebastian Langer (Houston, Texas / Clear Lake) and
Ben Whittemore (Georgetown, Texas / Georgetown) tied for 16th with a time of 1:56.94.
Annette Smith (Houston, Texas / Ridge Point) led the women's runners with a time of 2:20.74 that earned her 17th place.
Up Next
Both Tiger teams will return to action in two weeks as Trinity will host the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships April 27-28. The Trinity men and women have swept both SCAC Championships for three straight years.
