T&F Fully Celebrates Past And Present Successes at Aggie Classic – North Carolina A&T

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. 

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. 

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. 

All had fun.