Golden Eagles post seven career-best marks at Govs Invitational
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – It wasn’t a day for setting school records, but the Tennessee Tech track & field team did establish seven new personal best marks Saturday at the Austin Peay Govs Invitational.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – It wasn't a day for setting school
records, but the Tennessee Tech track & field team did
establish seven new personal best marks Saturday at the Austin Peay
Govs Invitational.
No team scores were tallied in the meet, which included eight
different schools.
Tech posted nearly 20 Top 10 finishes in the meet, including a
first-place effort from freshman Chelsea Mills in
the triple jump. Competing in the event for the first time in her
Golden Eagle career during the outdoor season, Mills beat the field
with a leap of 35 feet, 6 inches. Junior Kelli Keck was a
close second with a personal-best jump of 35 feet, 2 inches.
Mills also earned a fourth place mark in the long jump at 16 feet,
one inch. She was eighth in the 200-meter dash in 27.30 seconds,
the best of three Tech runners in the event. Keck placed
10th in 27.90, while newcomer Tiara Hymon was
14th in 28.56.
Brooklyn
Kimball, Tech's lone entry in the 400-meter run, placed seventh
in 1:03.55.
Junior Rebecca Cline led
a field of six Golden Eagle runners competing in the 3,000-meter
run, placing fifth overall with a personal-best time of 10:37.64.
Senior Beth
Miller also had a career-best time, finishing ninth in
10:55.18. A third PR in the event came from Kathryn Forbes,
who was 24th in 11:24.14.
Miller was 21st and Kendale
Caldwell 24th in the 1,500-meter run. Miller posted
a time of 5:14.09 in her first time in the race, while Caldwell's
time was 5:33.27.
Freshman Landry Loving
clocked a personal-best time of 2:26.84 in placing eighth in the
800-meter run. Dalis Connell
narrowly missed the career mark she established last week,
finishing 14th in 2:31.33.
In the high jump, sophomore Erin Keyes (in photo)
had a PR when she edged over the bar at 5 feet, ½ inch to
place in a tie for second place.
Tech's seventh PR came in the shot put where sophomore Margarett
Holder's toss of 31 feet, 6 inches was ninth. She trailed
senior teammate Madison Borden in
the event. Borden was fourth with a toss of 37 feet, 8 inches.
Borden also had Tech's best showing in the discus, finishing sixth
at 122 feet, 6 inches. Lacy Yslas was
seventh at 113 feet, 9 inches.
Senior Katie
Lowery had another of Tech's second-place performances,
clearing the pole vault at 10 feet, one-half inch.
Tech's next two events will take the team into Kentucky. Next
Saturday (April 6), Tech runs at the Murray State Invitational,
with the Western Kentucky Invitational a week later on Saturday,
April 13.
