EAST GREENSBORO – Saturday grew to become a celebration for North Carolina A&T monitor and subject, previous and current, in the course of the second and ultimate day of the Aggie Basic hosted by A&T at Marcus T. Johnson Monitor.
As anybody can think about, the VIP listing included the who’s who in Aggies monitor and subject. The Aggies Monitor and Discipline Alumni held its reunion this weekend, bringing again lots of the nice champions of the previous. It culminated with Saturday’s motion on the monitor, which included a tent exterior the stadium.
Most of the Aggies latest convention champions, All-Individuals and nationwide champions competed as execs, together with Cambrea Sturgis, Akeem Sirleaf, Kayla White, Chris Belcher, TeJyrica Robinson and Mar’Quise McGee.
In fact, the present lineup of males’s and ladies’s monitor and subject athletes confirmed up and out. The boys’s out of doors staff got here into the weekend ranked fifteenth nationally, and the ladies competed because the Eleventh-ranked staff. The celebration grew to become full when the 2 packages honored 21 student-athletes taking part of their ultimate residence meet on Senior Day.
The one factor lacking was cake and fruit punch as a result of the Aggies put collectively wonderful performances as soon as once more. The Aggies had six first-place finishes on Saturday. Coupled with the three first-place finishes on Friday and the first-place finishes from former monitor and subject athletes, the weekend certainly acknowledged A&T monitor and subject greatness.
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On Saturday, three of the Aggies wins got here in subject occasions led by junior Kenady Wilson, who jumped a career-best 6-feet, ¾-inches within the girls’s excessive soar.
Wilson, who got here into the weekend No. 1 within the Massive South Convention, did nothing to break that. As well as, Wilson’s soar strikes her right into a ninth-place tie nationally. Senior teammate Nazah Reddick completed second with a leap of 5-feet, 8 ¾-inches.
Graduate Loren James continued so as to add to her legacy as a thrower at A&T. She gained the ladies’s shot put with a personal-best throw that landed at 53-feet, 5 ¾-inches. It’s the No. 1 throw within the Massive South. The throw additionally ranks her sixteenth within the East area.
Freshman Carlos Alexander bought his first profession victory as he took first place within the males’s shot put. He threw a personal-best 55-feet, 1-inch to complete forward of freshman teammate Brayden Hodgest who completed second with a throw of 53-feet, 8 ¾-inches.
After the victories within the subject occasions, the present turned to the monitor. The Aggies obtained two wins within the hurdles. Graduate Paula Salmon gained the 100H in 12.66. It was somewhat slower than the 12.63 she ran final week on the College of Florida. She is No. 1 within the convention, No. 3 within the area and No. 4 nationally.
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Former Aggie hurdler TeJyrica Robinson completed second in 13.17. Robinson gained two MEAC titles and earned a first-team All-American honor within the 100H throughout her time at A&T. Your entire top-5 within the 100H on Saturday had been Aggies as graduate Breanna Bygrave (13.59) completed third, adopted by freshmen Zamia Stelly (13.86) and Amanda Kinloch (13.88). Stelly and Kinloch ran private greatest.
Senior Cedric McGriff gained the 110H in 13.97. It marked a season-best for McGriff as he stays third within the convention. Senior Jordan Richardson gained the boys’s 3000-meter steeplechase in 9:52.19. He’s sixth within the Massive South after working a 9:29.48 on the Florida Relays on March 31.
The celebration of A&T monitor and subject ended with Aggies turned professionals. Sturgis, the reigning 100 and 200M NCAA champion shocked the group by working the 100 in an astonishing 10.87 as a staff member of Adidas.
White, the 2019 200M indoor champion and the NCAA feminine indoor monitor athlete of the 12 months, completed second for Nike in 11.13. Senior Kamaya Debose-Epps positioned third in 11.31.
Belcher, who as soon as ran 9.93 on the 2017 NCAA out of doors championships, ran 10.02 within the 100 ultimate Saturday for Nike. Sophomore Javonte’ Harding, the 200M indoor nationwide champion, completed second in 10.21. Senior Tavarius was third in 10.24.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ohio State senior midfielder Michael Adedokun and North Carolina junior forward Kate Faasse were voted Hermann Trophy winners Friday as the top college soccer players in the United States.
Adedokun had 11 goals and 11 assists as Ohio State reached the College Cup semifinals. He was selected by Montreal with the 13th overall pick in last month’s Major League Soccer draft.
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Faasse scored an NCAA-leading 20 goals, including four in the NCAA tournament as the Tar Heels won their 23rd title.
Voting by coaches is conducted annually by the Missouri Athletic Club.
WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – For the second time in three years, Wilmington, North Carolina topped metro areas across the country when it came to where Americans moved in 2024, according to a study by United Van Lines.
The company released its 48th Annual Movers Study this week, with Wilmington topping the list of Metropolitan Statistical Areas with an 83% of moves being inbound and 17% outbound, ahead of Springfield (Missouri), Myrtle Beach (South Carolina) and Flagstaff (Arizona). You can see the list of highest-ranking cities by clicking here to visit the United Van Lines website. Wilmington also topped the same study in 2022.
When it comes to the most popular states seeing more inbound moves, the UVL study found “..West Virginia was the state with the highest percentage of inbound migration (66%), among states experiencing more than 250 moves* with United Van Lines”, according to a news release. North Carolina came in at #5 for most inbound moves. For the seventh year in a row, the study lists New Jersey with having more residents than any other state moving out, at 67% outbound.
According to the news release, the 2024 study “…shows for the first time in decades, the primary driver for moving interstate was a desire to be closer to family (28%)” than other reasons.
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WECT) – During his second day in office, Former North Carolina Attorney General and now our state’s governor, Josh Stein signed five Hurricane Helene recovery executive orders.
Stein says each order will address issues that need immediate attention.
This comes as more than 12,000 people are without safe housing, and an estimated 8,000 private roads and bridges need to be repaired or replaced in Western North Carolina.
“We want every dollar dedicated to recovery whether federal, state, local or charitable to be spent as efficiently, impactfully and quickly as possible,” said Stein. “Folks have to have a safe place to live.”
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The first executive order will increase the supply of temporary housing.
The second order will enable the state to repair private roads and bridges faster. Stein says that’s necessary for people and especially emergency vehicles to access homes.
The third order creates the Governor’s Recovery Office for Western North Carolina, or GROW NC. Which is now a division within the office of the Governor for the next year.
The fourth order establishes a governor’s advisory committee to advise GROW NC to meet the community’s needs quickly and cost-effectively.
The final order authorizes 16 additional hours of leave for state employees to volunteer for storm-related efforts.
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“The needs facing this region are vast and require immediate attention,” said Stein. “I pledge to do everything in my power as governor to accelerate recovery and the rebuilding of a more resilient region for the long haul.”
Stein says the total losses are estimated to be close to $60 billion dollars. All of the orders are effective immediately.
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