Jumps Earn Top Finishes at Georgia Tech Invitational

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech observe & discipline accomplished the Georgia Tech invitational on Saturday. Jumps shined on the ultimate day, successful the lads’s triple bounce and ladies’s excessive bounce.

John Watkins took first with a private better of 15.56m (51’0.75”) within the males’s triple bounce and Shanty Papakosta cleared 1.74m (5’8.5”) within the ladies’s excessive bounce.

Tech had many high finishes on the day. The ladies’s 4×100 staff of Sheleah Harris, Taylor Grimes, Anna Witherspoon and Chloe Davis completed second with a time of 45.42, a season finest. On the lads’s aspect, Jamie Miller set a brand new private finest within the males’s 400m, clocking in at 47.42 good for third.

There have been 4 extra high 10 finishes in particular person races. They got here from Harris (24.28, seventh, 200m), Alex Thomas (1:51.77, seventh, 800m), Riley Pelakowski (2:10.87, 9^th, 800m) and Lydia Troupe (1:04.03, 10^th, 400m hurdles).

The White and Gold are again in motion subsequent weekend when they’re cut up on the Penn Relays and Torrin Lawrence Memorial (Athens, Ga.).

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