Track & Field Ends Weekend with Personal-Best Marks

THE FLATS – The Georgia Tech observe and discipline groups concluded its weekend of competitors at Vanderbilt’s Music Metropolis Problem and Clemson’s Tiger Paw Invite with a number of prime three and personal-best performances.

TIGER PAW INVITE

One in every of Tech’s prime performances got here from Joey Sandel and his second-place end (8:31.35, PR) within the males’s 3,000 meters (unseeded). In the identical occasion, Jean-Lou Pare completed fifth with a personal-best time of 8:43.90. Within the girls’s 3,000 meters (seeded), Emma Geaney took residence tenth place (10:05.12, PR).

Omar Arnaout majorly improved on his private greatest within the males’s excessive bounce with a mark of two.06 meters (6-9). Jamir Gibson additionally recorded a brand new private greatest mark within the males’s shot put (18.78m/61-7.50) and completed fifth within the occasion.

Each Shanty Papakosta and Matthew Mazzacano earned fifth-place finishes of their respective occasions. Papakosta jumped a top of 1.79 meters (5-10.5) within the girls’s excessive bounce and Mazzacano recorded a mark of 4.82 meters (15-9.75) within the males’s pole vault (unseeded).

MUSIC CITY CHALLENGE

Within the girls’s 3,000 meters, Helena Lindsay positioned fifth with a brand new personal-best time of 9:18.66. Within the unseeded occasion, Mary Brady took residence second place with a time of 9:44.02 and Abbey Inexperienced got here in behind Brady with a third-place time of 9:48.36.

On the lads’s facet, James Cragin completed ninth within the seeded occasion with a time of 8:07.58. Within the unseeded occasion, Jackson Borden got here in twenty fourth place with a personal-best time of 8:25.80.

Jeremiah LaDuca positioned fifth within the males’s 800m (unseeded) with a time of 1:50.81.

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