Arkansas
No. 1 Razorbacks complete mission with 21st NCAA Indoor Championship
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – A formidable weekend of performances mixed for 63 group factors and a nationwide group title for the No. 1 Arkansas Razorbacks on the NCAA Indoor Championships.
This marks the 21st NCAA Indoor championship and 42nd general for the Arkansas males’s program. It’s the primary sweep of males’s and girls’s nationwide titles since Oregon in 2016.
Behind the 63 factors for the Razorbacks the runner-up group was Georgia (40) adopted by Florida (34), Washington (31), and Texas Tech (29).
Jaydon Hibbert set the profitable tone with a collegiate file on his first and solely try within the triple leap. Touring a distance of 57-6.5 (17.54), the 18-year-old Hibbert claimed a number of data – Jamaica nationwide file, World U20 file, Arkansas college file.
The earlier data included the UA college file of 57-1 (17.40) by Arkansas legend Mike Conley in 1985, the World U20 file of 56-5.25 (17.20) by Melvin Raffin of France in 2017, and the Jamaican file of 56-4.75 (17.19) by Arkansas alum Clive Pullen in 2017.
Charlie Simpkins of Charleston Southern set the earlier collegiate file 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 cut up is the second quickest ever indoors.
Owens-Delerme bettered the earlier collegiate file 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.
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