MONTEVALLO, Ala. – The Augusta University women's outdoor track and field team finished the Peach Belt Conference Championships in sixth place on Saturday afternoon at the University of Montevallo Track and Field Facility.
The Augusta women's and men's teams combined to break 10 school records across the three-day event.
Action kicked off on Thursday at the University of Montevallo with a packed day featuring 31 events across men's and women's competition. It continued on Friday and PBC associate member Nova Southeastern leads , UNC Pembroke is second, Montevallo third, PBC associate member Florida Tech fourth, AU fifth, North Georgia sixth, Clayton State seventh, and Columbus State eighth.
Jaguar sophomore Heather Hammett broke her school record in the 400 meter hurdles with a time of 1:02.35 to take second overall and qualify provisionally for the NCAA Championships. Mallory Howard carded fifth in the javelin throw with a personal best toss of 32.34 meters and Kiana Kelly grabbed sixth for the long jump in 5.33 meters to post a new school record.
Kelly finished third in the heptathlon with 4,182 points. She placed second in the shot put (10.42m), and fourth in the high jump (1.49m), 100m hurdles (15.92), 200m dash (27.02).
Thursday's 1500m race saw Kate Boland pace AU and take sixth with a time of 4:50.17. Pricilla Cartwright landed ninth in 5:08.43 and Olivia Rodriguez took 15th in 5:21.39.
Edrei Yates was seventh in the 100m dash (12.24) in day one action and Macy Hayes and Kelly placed third and fourth in the high jump on Friday.
Shelby Myers took third of 20 in the shot put with a launch that reached 11.97m and Ashley Leonard sixth in 10.96m.
In the 5000m race, McKenzie Knudsen led Augusta and took eighth in 19:40.87 and in the 800m run, Boland placed eighth (2:26.97), Amber Palermo 11th (2:28.64), Susan Obi 12th (2:27.66), Pricilla Cartwright 13th (2:25.19), and Diana Petrmichlova 15th (2:31.21). Boland set the new school record for the 800.
PBC CHAMPIONSHIP – WOMEN'S RESULTS
1 Nova Southeastern, 214.5
2 UNC Pembroke, 159
3 Montevallo, 154.5
4 North Georgia, 74
5 Florida Tech, 73
6 Augusta, 61
7 Columbus State, 39
8 Clayton State, 35
PBC CHAMPIONSHIP – MEN'S RESULTS
1 UNC Pembroke, 198
2 Nova Southeastern, 164
3 Florida Tech, 141.5
4 Augusta, 99
5 Columbus State, 93.5
6 Montevallo, 70
7 Clayton State, 41
ALL-SPORTSMANSHIP TEAM
Augusta, Taylor Coxwell and Sarah Hossack
Clayton State, Tyler Askew and Joy Diaz
Columbus State, Jalen Tolbert and Shanila Chapman
Florida Tech, Gerrick Farquharson and JoeMarie Reid
Montevallo, Steven Rocca and Erin McDaniel
Nova Southeastern, Dwayne Edwards and Catherine George
UNC Pembroke, Michael Zimmerman and Catherine George
North Georgia, Elizabeth Mullenax
COACH OF THE YEAR
MEN: Dr. Peter Ormsby / UNC Pembroke
WOMEN: Bryan Hagopian / Nova Southeastern University
EAB ELITE 15 AWARD
MEN: Tyler McCabe / Florida Tech
WOMEN: Cheyenne Thompson / Montevallo
MEN'S TRACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Silus Kipkoech / UNC Pembroke
WOMEN'S TRACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Cheyenne Thompson / Montevallo
MEN'S FIELD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Stefan Matula / Nova Southeastern
WOMEN'S FIELD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Jeanna Cube / UNC Pembroke
MEN'S FRESHMAN TRACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Silus Kipkoech / UNC Pembroke
WOMEN'S FRESHMAN TRACK ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Cienna Nichols / Florida Tech
MEN'S FRESHMAN FIELD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Nate Blackmon / Columbus State
WOMEN'S FRESHMAN FIELD ATHLETE OF THE YEAR
Kelsi Sheldon / UNC Pembroke
JAGUARS AT PBC CHAMPIONSHIPS (Year-By-Year)
- 2017 – 6th
- 2016 – 9th
- 2015 – 6th
- 2014 – 8th
- 2013 – 8th
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