Blue Raiders complete Music City Challenge

Friday, April 26

Nashville, TN

TBA

Middle Tennessee

Music City Challenge

4/27/2024 10:23:00 PM | Men's Cross Country and Track & Field, Women's Cross Country and Track & Field, Track & Field/Cross Country

Results

By: @MTAthletics

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Middle Tennessee men's and women's track and field teams completed this weekend's meet at the Music City Challenge.

The Music City Challenge featured top Conference USA ranked times by the Blue Raiders.

"The team looked solid this weekend at Vanderbilt," said head coach Keith Vroman. "It's great to see all the work put in this season paying dividens at the right time. It's going to be exciting to see what happens in the next few weeks with the teams peaking at the end of the season. We still have more work to do as we head into the championship season."

Men's Top Performances

· John Sherman would finish eighth in the 200-meter final on Friday with a 21.28s personal best. He also finished fourth on Saturday in the 100-meter finals with a PR of 10.28s to rank top-10 in CUSA.
· Carmelo Cannizzaro shattered his previous 5k time after winning the Male Breakout Athlete of the year at Thursday night's Raider Choice Awards. He finished fourth on Friday night with a new personal best 14:37.20s.
· In Friday night's 1500-meter race, Habtamu Geta finished second with a personal best 3:42.20s time with Brian Kiptoo in fourth place also setting a new personal best of 3:44.48s. Sammy Sang rounded out the 1500-meter races for the Blue Raiders with a first-place finish and time of 3:51.79s.
· Wail Bourahli finished third in the 800-meter with a 1:50.64s time just shy of his previous PR that ranks third fastest in CUSA.
· Stephen Eloji ran the second fastest time in CUSA in the 110H finals to finish first place. He ran a new season best time of 13:55s.

Women's Top Performances

· Lyn'Nikka Vance placed third in the long jump invite on Friday with a 5.79m mark.
· In the 200-meter final on Friday, Leonie beu would finish second with a 23.63s personal best and Tamia Waters would place third with a23.81s personal best.
· Friday night Brooke Studnicki placed eighth in the 5k with a personal best 17:39.67s time.
· Faith Nyathi finished fifth in Friday night's 1500-meter race with a personal best 4:21.20s time.
· Tshwanelo Maruping placed third on Friday night in the 3000-meter Steeplechase with a personal best of 10:42.71s.
· Laura Odivwri would finish fourth with a personal best in the high jump with a mark of 1.66m. She also finished third in the triple jump with a mark of 12.10m for a personal best. Her triple jump mark is the second furthest in Conference USA.

Next up

The men's and women's teams will be in El Paso, Texas for the Conference USA Championships on May 10-12.

Final Results

View the final results of this weekend's meet here.

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