Live Results
ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's and women's track and field teams travel to Virginia Military Institute for the VMI Winter Relays Friday and Saturday.
LIVE COVERAGE
Results: The VMI Sports Information Department and Snap Timing will provide live results throughout the weekend.
LAST TIME OUT
The Mountain Lion women tallied four wins at the At Last Minute Invite at Roanoke College.
Concord's 4x400-meter relay team of sophomore
Lindsey Cummings, senior
Taylor Hamm, sophomore
Josea Smith and freshman
Jada Strachan won in a time of 4:23.44.
Junior
Autumn Thomas was victorious in the 60-meter dash as she clocked a time of 8.14 seconds. Along with her relay win, Hamm was an individual winner in the 500-meter dash, coming through the line in 1:25.68
Senior
Bailey Knowles rounded out the winners with a victory in the mile. The Christiansburg, Virginia native ran a personal-best time of 5:33.42.
CU had several top five finishers throughout the day last Saturday, including Strachan who finished second in the 800-meter run. Strachan was making her collegiate debut on the track.
The men's track and field team was just as successful at Roanoke College.
Senior
Damon Akers broke the school record in the 500-meter dash as he ran 1:06.73 in the event.
Sidenote: Akers and fellow senior
Jason Weitzel will be competing at Grand Valley State's GVSU Big Meet Friday evening. Akers will compete in the 800-meter run while Weitzel toes the line in the 5,000-meter run.
Also at Roanoke College last week, freshman
Cedric Drennen was a winner in the mile as he stopped the clock at 4:34.68. Senior
Michael Ruhnke followed right behind in a showing of 4:36.03 for second place.
Akers, senior
Corey Carvelli, sophomore
Kelshawn Grant and sophomore
Marcus Wilson combined to run 3:34.28 as they placed first in the 4x400-meter relay.
In his tune-up for this weekend, Weitzel placed second in the 800-meters at Roanoke College as he clocked 1:59.07.
VMI WINTER RELAY ENTRIES
The Mountain Lions will see some stiff competition this weekend at VMI as several Division I schools are scheduled to attend including American, George Mason, George Washington, Howard, South Carolina State, Wofford and Virginia Commonwealth.
But, Concord still has a number of athletes ranked in the top 25 of their respective event despite the stout field of competition.
The trio of B. Knowles and seniors
Kaylin Kessinger and
Kenna Knowles are scheduled to race the 5,000-meters.
Hamm and Cummings are seeded eighth and 13
th in the 500-meters ahead of the event Saturday morning.
Sophomores
Trevor Armes and
Ryan Muse are both ranked in the top 25 of the 500-meters.
After his win at Roanoke, Drennen will look for another strong outing in the mile at VMI. In other distance events, freshman
Isaac Prather and Ruhnke will compete in the 5,000-meters.
Earlier this season, Prather ran a personal-record time of 16:13 in the 5,000-meters.
CU's 4x400-meter relay team of Armes, Carvelli, senior
Roger Foster and Wilson are seeded 11
th ahead of Saturday's final.
The women's 4x400-meter relay of senior
Heather Chernutan, Hamm, Strachan and Thomas are 14
th.
Meanwhile, Grant and Carvelli are scheduled to compete in the long jump where they are ranked 15
th and 25
th, respectively.
A complete performance list for the VMI Winter Relays can be found
here.
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