Results
CLEVELAND, Tenn. – The Concord University men's track & field team had an outstanding weekend at the Lee Flames – Fast Break Invite at the Ray Conn Sports Complex Friday and Saturday.
A school record was broken as the quartet of junior
Ethan Board, freshman
Jaidyn Foddrell, junior
Ian Gardner and freshman
Bradley Harris broke the program record in the 4x400-meter relay as they ran 3:18.44. CU won the event, and in the process broke the existing school record by 0.7 seconds from 2017.
Graduate student
Gerard Hearst lowered his top time in the Mountain East Conference in the 100-meter dash with a sprint of 10.61 seconds, finishing third. It was also a personal-record time for Hearst. Foddrell was 15
th at 10.99 seconds while Harris sprinted 11.12 seconds to finish 18
th.
The 4x100-meter relay team of Foddrell, Gardner, Harris and Hearst just missed the school record as they finished fourth in a time of 42.16 seconds.
In the 400-meter dash, Gardner came through in a season-best time of 49.08 seconds to place fifth. Gardner's time is the third fastest in the MEC.
Freshman
AJ Skeens finished 12
th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as he clocked 10:03.21. Junior
Logan Zuchelli was in the top 15 of the 1,500-meter run as he stopped the timer at 4:01.17 to place 15
th.
The trio of freshman
Braden Ward (15:25.73), senior
Preston Prather (15:26.46) and sophomore
Alex Irvin (15:50.55) all broke 16 minutes in the 5,000-meter run.
In the 800-meter run, the quartet of freshman
Jaedan Holstein (1:57.71), graduate student
Alex Watty (1:58.32), Zuchelli (1:59.30) and Board (1:59.32) all went under two minutes. Holstein registered a personal-record time.
The Mountain Lions will be at home for the Concord Invite Friday.