The No. 6 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ track and field team produced six medalists on Saturday at the Virginia Tech Invitational.<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ swept the podium in the 200 meters with sophomore Aurieyall Scott leading the way in first place with a time of 23.56 – the nation’s fastest performance at the time of publication. Sheila Paul clocked in at 23.95, which ranks seventh in the nation, for second place.<\/p>\n
Freshman Octavious Freeman ran the eighth fastest time in the country at 24.01 for third place and a personal record. Freshman Christal Peterson clocked a personal record 24.49 in the event, which ranks among the top 25 performances in the country, and Amanda Leland set a personal best as well with a time of 25.22.<\/p>\n
Freshman Precious Ogunleye broke her second school freshman record in as many days, surpassing the five-year-old shot put mark with a fourth place showing of 13.88m (45-06.50).<\/p>\n
Two Knights also medaled in the 800 meters as Erica Winston claimed first place with a time of 2:15.80 while Ne’Ausha Logan followed at third place with a time of 2:18.46.<\/p>\n
“The 200 runners did a great job of running their race patterns for their first race of the year,” Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ head coach Caryl Smith Gilbert said. “Precious again broke a freshman school record, so that was very, very exciting. The 800 runners are running close to as fast as they ran all of indoor last season, so I can’t complain about the weekend overall but we still have quite a bit of work to do, and we have to eliminate the mental barriers we face before we get to Birmingham next weekend.”<\/p>\n
Sophomore Jen Clayton clinched second place in the long jump with a leap of 6.05m (19-10.25), which currently ranks 15th in the nation.<\/p>\n
Junior Sonnisha Williams recorded 6.01m (19-08.75) with a fourth place finish and also medaled in the high jump, clearing 1.65m (5-05) to tie third place.<\/p>\n
“Coach (Paul) Brown has the long jumpers looking quite solid,” Smith Gilbert said. “They have to get more consistent on the runway.”<\/p>\n
Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½’s 4×400 relay team got off to a good start but were unable to finish after second leg Scott was tripped up in the first 50 meters.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile at the University of Florida in Gainesville, eight student-athletes represented the Knights at the Jimmy Carnes Invitational. Freshman Teresa Huff earned the Knights’ best finish at the meet by clocking 18:44.76 in the 5,000 meters for fifth place.<\/p>\n
Junior Eva Pierce was Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½’s sole runner in the 400 Meters and finished with a time of 1:01.32. Freshman Ali Brandehoff recorded Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½’s top finish in the 800 meters with a time of 2:23.48 for seventh place, and freshman Cody Castillo paced the Knights in the mile with a time of 5:27.26.<\/p>\n
Up next, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ will travel to the Auburn Invitational in Birmingham, Ala., on Saturday and will also split time at the Gator Invite in Gainesville on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 6 Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ track and field team produced six medalists on Saturday at the Virginia Tech Invitational. Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ swept the podium in the 200 meters with sophomore Aurieyall Scott leading the way in first place with a time of 23.56 – the nation’s fastest performance at the time of publication. Sheila Paul clocked in at 23.95, which ranks seventh…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":31937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[6660,381,6659,2448,3346,3470,3648,6656,4265,7947,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-31935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-amanda-leland","tag-aurieyall-scott","tag-christal-peterson","tag-jen-clayton","tag-ncaa","tag-octavious-freeman","tag-paul-brown","tag-precious-ogunleye","tag-sheila-paul","tag-track-and-field","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n