San Antonio, TEXAS – The Trinity track and field team will head to McNeese State this Friday, Jan. 15, as the indoor season officially begins to ramp up. This season brings a unique new challenge for the Tigers, as they will compete in an indoor conference championship meet for the first time in program history. This weekend's meet will provide an early test as the team begins to sharpen up for the SAA Indoor Championships on Feb. 27.
The indoor season officially opened up on Dec. 5 at the Birmingham Ice Breaker, as a select number of athletes got an early start to their season. After a short break, they're back on track and will be joined for the first time by a majority of the team's 118-athlete roster, including the distance runners back from their post-cross country season break.
Birmingham Results
School Records
Bocar Diagana (Edina, Minn. / Edina) set the first school record of the day in the men's triple jump, setting an indoor PR of 14.56m to take fourth place. That mark would have earned him 13th on the NCAA Indoor Championships national qualifying list last year, putting him in a great position to qualify for the meet this year. Diagana can expect to be ranked first in DIII when results from today's meets are finalized.
Halle Hamilton () broke her own school record in the women's 800-meter, setting an indoor PR of 2:18.64 to take second place. Just two seconds off her outdoor PR, it looks like Hamilton will yet again be a crucial piece of the Tigers' dominant mid-distance squad. She should also expect to find her time in the top five nationally when today's results are finalized.
Sprints
Price Schultea (Cypress, Texas / Cypress Christian) set a PR in the men's 60-meter, running a time of 7.15 to place 36th in the prelims. Beating out his old best by just one hundredth of a second, Schultea is now tied for fifth on Trinity's all-time list. Orie Piken took 45th, running a time of 7.19.
Nia Scott (Dickinson, Texas / Dickinson) took 48th in the women's 60-meter with a time of 8.20.
Isabella Gaylord () took 54th in the women's 200-meter with a time of 27.10, while Scott doubled back to take 62nd in 27.73.
Piken doubled back to set a PR of 22.34 in the men's 200-meter, taking ninth place. He now ranks third on Trinity's all-time list. Schultea also doubled back, taking 15th in 22.44 to just miss his indoor PR of 22.39.
Ryan Forson (Dallas, Texas / Parish Episcopal School) took 31st in the men's 400-meter with a time of 52.15.
Lilly Broussard (Houston, Texas / National Christian) set a new PR of 1:01.21 in the women's 400-meter to take 21st, moving her to seventh on Trinity's all-time list.
Hurdles
Kris Duggan (San Antonio, Texas / Johnson) took 12th in the men's 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.61, just missing his PR of 8.61. He is fourth in school history in the event.
Gaylord took 30th in the women's 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.72, slotting her into eighth on Trinity's all-time list in her first time ever running the event.
Jumps
Addison Doss (Sugar Land, Texas / Logos Preparatory Academy) took 11th in the women's pole vault, matching her indoor PR with a mark of 3.40m. She currently ranks second in Trinity history for the event.
Relays
The women's 4x400-meter team of Hamilton, Gaylord, Scott and Broussard ran 4:08.88, taking tenth place and moving into eighth on Trinity's all-time list.
Looking Ahead
The following weekend, on Jan. 24, the Tigers will head to the University of Houston for the first of two FasTrak meets at Houston.
