Led by high Zimbabwean feminine sprinter Vimbayi Maisvorewa, the Auburn monitor and area staff continued its spectacular indoor marketing campaign, competing on the Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina, on the Clemson College Indoor Monitor 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 greatest time of 23.97 and OKe crossed not far behind in 24.00.
This helped the Tigers to take dwelling gold in 4 totally different occasions and had 12 collegiate private greatest performances over the weekend.
Junior Alyssa Quinones-Mixon highlighted the exhibiting of the pole vaulters for the ladies. Quinones-Mixon completed the occasion first general with a collegiate greatest 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 general 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 general (20.00 m) and moved as much as fifth on Auburn’s high 10 in historical past.
Auburn swept the boys’s and ladies’s shot putt titles with the assistance of juniors Matthew Rueff and Megan Hague. Rueff claimed his greatest 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 greatest 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 boys. Junior Seth Allen took ninth with a PR throw of 18.94m.
Senior Chante Clinkscale continues to signal her title within the Auburn report 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 gained the spherical (7.23).
Her time positioned her ninth in Auburn’s report ebook. Within the 200m, her indoor PR time of 23.49 was adequate for fourth place. Sophomore Shonedra Richardson joined Clinkscale within the 200m.
The Linden, Alabama native additionally earned a collegiate greatest within the preliminary spherical of the race (7.58).
Auburn’s sprints squad continues to blow by 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 stable performances within the pole vault.
Held took fourth with a mark of three.93m and Walden completed in sixth with a season’s greatest 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 soar.
Coming off stable performances final week, the gap crew continued to place up stable instances. Within the girls’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 greatest time within the 3000m (10:09.70).
Working within the 3000m for the boys, junior Hayden Decide picked up a brand new PR (8:18.00), good for tenth place. Within the males’s 5000m, two Tigers completed within the high 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 Monitor & Subject Facility.