Led by prime Zimbabwean feminine sprinter Vimbayi Maisvorewa, the Auburn observe and area workforce continued its spectacular indoor marketing campaign, competing on the Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina, on the Clemson College Indoor Observe final Friday and Saturday.
Maisvorewa, who’s on an athletics scholarship at Auburn College, ran in her favorite 400m occasion and got here second in 52.21 seconds, in accordance with reviews from South Carolina.
Racing within the 400m for the sprinters, senior Maisvorewa and sophomore Deborah Oke completed second and fourth within the occasion.
Maisvorewa’s time of 52.21 positioned her at No. 5 within the convention, whereas Oke’s is No. 12 (53.44).
The duo additionally raced within the 200m, the place Maisvorewa ran an indoor collegiate finest time of 23.97 and OKe crossed not far behind in 24.00.
This helped the Tigers to take dwelling gold in 4 completely different occasions and had 12 collegiate private finest performances over the weekend.
Junior Alyssa Quinones-Mixon highlighted the exhibiting of the pole vaulters for the ladies. Quinones-Mixon completed the occasion first total with a collegiate finest mark of 4.38m. Her new mark positioned her second within the SEC.
Senior Maura Huwalt continued to indicate her dominance within the throwing occasions for the ladies.
For the third time in three weeks, she completed weight throw first total with a brand new PR of twenty-two.27m.
Additionally competing within the weight throw, senior Adrienne Adams had a stellar efficiency. She positioned second total (20.00 m) and moved as much as fifth on Auburn’s prime 10 in historical past.
Auburn swept the lads’s and ladies’s shot putt titles with the assistance of juniors Matthew Rueff and Megan Hague. Rueff claimed his finest mark on the fourth throw of the occasion (18.18m).
On the ladies’s aspect, the Tigers took the highest three spots within the occasion. Hague claimed gold (16.41m), Huwalt took silver with a season’s finest toss (16.31m) and sophomore Marley Raikiwasa positioned third (15.78,).
Senior Kyle Brown, junior John Leonard and senior Kyle Moison went second (21.84m), third (20.56m) and fourth (20.28m), respectively, in weight throw for the lads. Junior Seth Allen took ninth with a PR throw of 18.94m.
Senior Chante Clinkscale continues to signal her identify within the Auburn file books. Clinkscale delivered two PRs within the 60m sprint.
She ran a time of seven.26 within the preliminary spherical of the occasion and delivered a PR. She improved her time within the semis, the place she received the spherical (7.23).
Her time positioned her ninth in Auburn’s file e-book. Within the 200m, her indoor PR time of 23.49 was ok for fourth place. Sophomore Shonedra Richardson joined Clinkscale within the 200m.
The Linden, Alabama native additionally earned a collegiate finest within the preliminary spherical of the race (7.58).
Auburn’s sprints squad continues to blow by way of the competitors.
This weekend the trio of juniors Azeem Fahmi and Ian Myers and senior Dario Matatu competed within the 60m sprint.
In prelims, Fahmi ran 6.70 with the second quickest time of the spherical. Myers wasn’t far behind, crossing in 6.71, and Matuau ran 6.74. All three superior within the semifinals spherical. Within the subsequent spherical, all three Tigers had season-best instances. Fahmi took silver (6.65), Myers completed in fourth (6.69) and Matau claimed seventh (6.73).
Matau completed fourth within the 200m (20.97), and Myers grabbed a collegiate-best time (21.07).
Within the area occasions, senior Rhiannon Held and sophomore Brooke Walden additionally had strong performances within the pole vault.
Held took fourth with a mark of three.93m and Walden completed in sixth with a season’s finest clearance of three.93m.
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Competing in his second meet for Auburn, freshman Asande Mthembu leapt out to 7.42m to take bronze in lengthy leap.
Coming off strong performances final week, the gap crew continued to place up strong instances. Within the ladies’s mile, junior Hallie Porterfield completed the occasion ninth, crossing the road in 4:52.93. Contemporary-man Mary Malone’s time of 5:10.84 earned her a brand new PR.
Junior Hannah Thuss delivered a season’s finest time within the 3000m (10:09.70).
Operating within the 3000m for the lads, junior Hayden Choose picked up a brand new PR (8:18.00), good for tenth place. Within the males’s 5000m, two Tigers completed within the prime 5. Senior Fuji Anday completed in second place (14:58.80), and junior Joseph Perry rounded out the highest 5 with a time of (15:19.52).
The Tigers will head to Bryan-Faculty Station, Texas, to compete on the Charlie Thomas Invitational on February 7-8 on the R.A. “Murray” Fasken ’38 Indoor Observe & Subject Facility.
