Weekend Preview: Track and Field Returns to Columbia for USC Indoor Open

Saturday, February 22

Columbia, S.C.

The Citadel

USC Indoor Open

Photo by: Milledge Austin/The Citadel

Weekend Preview: Track and Field Returns to Columbia for USC Indoor Open

2/21/2020 1:16:00 PM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field

CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Citadel track and field squads return to Columbia this weekend to compete in the final indoor competition before the 2020 Southern Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships next weekend. The Bulldogs will be competing in the one-day USC Indoor Open.

Live results can be followed HERE. Complete information on the meet can be found HERE.

LAST WEEK'S OTHER NOTABLE PERFORMANCES

For the fourth straight week, a program freshman record was set as the men's freshman 4x400-meter relay team of Treonte Newton, Aidan Richter, Andrew Smith and Kane Duncan set the program freshman record in the event with a first-place time of 3:28.77 at the JDL Team Challenge on Feb. 13.
Freshman distance runner Sam Sharnas finished second in the 3,000-meter race with a personal-record time of 8:51.95. The time is 10^th in program history.
Smith finished second in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:58.70, a personal record for the freshman.
Junior Jeremy Shipley finished fourth in the 800m with a time of 2:00.89, while senior Trey McClary finished eighth with a time of 2:02.74.
In the weight throw, Prince Howard-Whitaker finished fourth with a throw of 48' 10.75", while freshman Reggie Reynolds finished seventh with a personal-record throw of 39' 9.25". Graham Holland finished eighth with a throw of 39' 8.75".
Freshman Heidi Fortin finished seventh in the women's 3,000-meter race with a personal-record time of 10:52.19. The time placed Fortin seventh in program history.
Sophomore Mya Dollard finished seventh in the high jump with a mark of 4' 11".
In the triple jump, Kaeleigh Guth finished fifth with a mark of 34' 4".
Samantha Engel finished seventh in the pole vault with a height of 9' 10.75".

COMING UP
Following this week's meet, the Bulldogs will head to Lexington, Virginia for the conference meet Saturday, Feb. 29 – Sunday, March 1.

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