Arkansas
No. 1 Arkansas men secure NCAA Indoor Championship
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – A formidable weekend of performances mixed for 63 staff factors and a nationwide staff title for the No. 1 Arkansas Razorbacks on the NCAA Indoor Championships.
This marks the twenty first NCAA Indoor championship and forty second general for the Arkansas males’s program. It is the primary sweep of males’s and ladies’s nationwide titles since Oregon in 2016.
Behind the 63 factors for the Razorbacks the runner-up staff was Georgia (40) adopted by Florida (34), Washington (31), and Texas Tech (29).
Jaydon Hibbert set the profitable tone with a collegiate document on his first and solely try within the triple bounce. Touring a distance of 57-6.5 (17.54), the 18-year-old Hibbert claimed a number of information – Jamaica nationwide document, World U20 document, Arkansas college document.
The earlier information included the UA college document of 57-1 (17.40) by Arkansas legend Mike Conley in 1985, the World U20 document of 56-5.25 (17.20) by Melvin Raffin of France in 2017, and the Jamaican document of 56-4.75 (17.19) by Arkansas alum Clive Pullen in 2017.
Charlie Simpkins of Charleston Southern set the earlier collegiate document of 57-5 (17.50) in 1986.
Arkansas closed out the meet with a victory within the 4 x 400 relay with a time of three:02.09 with a foursome of Connor Washington (46.48), James Benson II (44.91), Ayden Owens-Delerme (46.56), and Chris Bailey (44.14). Bailey’s break up is the second quickest ever indoors.
Owens-Delerme bettered the earlier collegiate document within the heptathlon whereas ending as runner-up to Georgia’s Kyle Garland. Owens-Delerme totaled 6,518 factors whereas Garland gained with 6,639 factors.