CEDARVILLE, Ohio – The Kentucky State University track and field throwers continue to shatter school records as the Thorobreds matriculate through the indoor season with senior
Anthony Hampton, Jr. and sophomore
Amani Wagner rewriting the record books.
Hampton Jr. (Sumter, S.C.) broke the school record which he already owns with a mark of 14.62 meters in the weight throw, while Wagner (Yellow Springs, Ohio) set the weight throw mark on three different occasions during the meet, finalizing the record at 16.68 meters. She has improved over three meters from last season.
Wagner added a fifth-place finish in the shot put (11.61 meters) and junior
Angel Freeman (Toledo, Ohio) was eighth in the event (10.53 meters).
Junior
Epiphany Smith (East St. Louis, Ill.) scored in two events for the Thorobreds. She was second in the 60-meter dash (7.81 seconds) and sixth in the 200-meter dash (26.65 seconds).
The 1600-meter relay team of freshman
Esperance Nibitanga (Louisville, Ky.), sophomore
Princess Morris (Covington, Ky.), freshman
Ketisa Akambasi (Buffalo, N.Y.) and freshman
Timmia Crayton-Prioleau (Cleveland, Ohio) placed fifth with a season-best time of 4:21.84.
Freshman
Adam Greiving (Georgetown, Ky.) led Kentucky State by scoring in three different events. He was fourth in the 60-meter dash (7.13 seconds) and the 200-meter dash (23.07 seconds), and then teamed with sophomore
Isaac Fields (Brooksville, Fla.), freshman
Nigel Cochran (Woodruff, S.C) and junior
LaDarian McAllister (Lakeland, Fla.) to place second in the 1600-meter relay.
The highest scoring event for the Thorobreds was the 200-meter dash as three runners finished in the top eight, led by sophomore
Jaylen Garnett (Louisville, Ky.). Garnett was third with a season-best time of 23.05. Greiving was fourth with the time of 23.07, while Cochran and Fields both placed eighth with identical times of 23.51. It was a season-best time for Fields.
Sophomore
Chase Tandy (Danville, Ky.) and freshman
Roderic Walls (Albany, Ga.) were fifth and sixth, respectively, in the 400-meter dash. Tandy completed the distance in a season-best time of 51.35, while Walls posted a career-best time of 51.63. The duo joined senior
Cameron Galloway (Paducah, Ky.) and sophomore
Ma'Rico Holland (Milwaukee, Wisc.) for a second-place finish in the distance medley relay in the time of 11:03.25.
Galloway added a fifth-place finish in the 800 (2:00.23) and freshman
Easton Phillips-Ware (Kapolei, Hawaii) was seventh in the high jump with a season-best height of 1.92 meters. Holland posted a season-best time in the mile (4:43), while junior
Mark Johannemann (Louisville, Ky.) ran a career-best time in the mile (5:00.32).
Kentucky State returns to the track Friday at Hoosier Hills in Bloomington, Ind.