FINAL RESULTS

CULLOWHEE, N.C. – The Citadel men's and women's track and field teams wrapped up the 2016 Southern Conference Outdoor Championships on Friday in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The men's squad placed sixth overall with 77 total team points while the women's team came in eighth place with 29 points.
 
Six Bulldog sprinters earned all-conference honors and four freshmen received all-freshman recognition to highlight Friday's action for The Citadel. Freshman Josiah Johnson shined at his first career conference outdoor championship meet, clinching both all-conference and all-freshman status in multiple events.  Johnson placed second overall in the 100-meter dash with a speedy personal-record time of 10.58 seconds. He finished just one-thousandth of a second behind the first place finisher and just eight-hundredths of a second behind The Citadel's freshman record.
 
Johnson later finished fifth in the 200-meter dash after clocking a 22.09. He also participated on both the men's relay squads who secured top-three finishes. The 4x100-meter relay team of Johnson, Devin Singleton, Tevin Williams and Dondray Copeland placed third with a time of 41.71 to garner all-conference recognition.
 
Johnson, Singleton and Copeland teamed up with freshman Tyler Jackson in the 4x400-meter relay and finished second with a time of 3:14.95, cementing the quartet as an all-conference group. Jackson added an all-freshman performance in the 400-meter sprint, finishing seventh and clocking a 50.02. Three Bulldogs scored in that event as Jackson was joined by Singleton, who placed fifth with a 49.17, and Williams, who finished eighth with a 51.14.
 
Rounding out The Citadel's award winners were junior Malik Diggs and freshmen Ja'Lon Williams and Louis Lawrence. Diggs clocked a personal-record 14.41 in the 110 high hurdles and placed second to clinch all-conference honors. Williams grabbed a pair of top-10 finishes in the shot put and discus while Louis Lawrence placed seventh in the 100-meter as both earned all-freshman recognition.
 
Other scorers for the Bulldogs at the conference outdoor championships included sophomore Derrick Freeland, junior Kaitlyn Moore and a duo of high jumpers in Mitchell Noel and Jackson Nosbisch. Freeland took sixth overall in the discus and ended a strong season with a heave of 148 feet, 3 inches and junior Kaitlyn Moore finished fifth in the shot put, throwing 38 feet, .75 inches. Noel and Nosbisch came in sixth and eighth by clearing 6 feet, 4.75 inches and 6 feet, 2.75 inches, respectively. Noel's leap matched his career high.
 
Senior distance runners Caillian Colquitt and Jessica DeWitte also wrapped up stellar careers on Friday evening. Colquitt clocked an 18:28.51 in the 5,000-meter run to take 11th place and DeWitte placed 12th in the 1,500-meter finals with a time of 5:06.55.

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FINAL TEAM RESULTS
 
Men's results – Final
1. Western Carolina – 245 points
2. VMI – 152
2. Samford – 101
3. ETSU – 98
5. Furman – 94
6. The Citadel – 77
7. Wofford – 37
8. UNCG – 8
 
Women's results – Final
1. Western Carolina – 255 points
2. Samford – 251.1
3. ETSU – 91.5
4. Furman – 45
5. VMI – 44
6. Chattanooga – 39
7. Wofford – 37
8. The Citadel – 29
9. Mercer – 13
10. UNCG – 7