Black Team Wins 36th Annual Track and Field Intrasquad Meet

Black Team Wins 36th Annual Track and Field Intrasquad Meet

Black Team Wins 36th Annual Track and Field Intrasquad MeetBlack Team Wins 36th Annual Track and Field Intrasquad Meet
Dec. 5, 2015

Final Meet Results

CINCINNATI
- The University of Cincinnati track and field program competed in its 36th annual intrasquad meet on Friday, Dec. 5, with the black team edging a slim 107-92 victory. The teams combined for seven new intrasquad meet records on the day. The meet took place in the Armory Fieldhouse on the UC campus and was held on a 175-meter flat track.

// MEN'S RESULTS
The red team beat the black team by a single point, 51-50, after the 12-event meet. The red team picked up three individual victories in the track events with Kelvin Williams (Melbourne, Fla./Palm Bay) winning the 55-meter hurdles, Tevin-Lloyd Thompson (Harbourview, Jamaica/Kingston College) winning the 200-meters and Jaashir Morris (Edison, N.J./JP Stevens) winning the 400-meters. On the field side, Tariq Sanders (Cincinnati, Ohio/Lockland) bested the field in the triple jump while Josh Province (Willowick, Ohio/Eastlake North) took home top honors in the weight throw to give the red team the advantage.

// WOMEN'S RESULTS
The black team topped the red team 57-41 on the women's side, led by Kenya Woodall (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) and Rebecka Abrahamsson (Karlshamn, Sweden/Karlshamn) who each recorded a pair of victories. Woodall won the 55-meters and the 200-meters while Abrahamsson won the long jump and the triple jump.

// INTRASQUAD MEET RECORDS
The meet saw seven intrasquad meet records fall, three for the men and four for the women. Jimmy Brooks (Wyomissing, Pa./Western Texas) tied the record in the 55-meters, finishing in 6.1 seconds for the only men's track record set on the day. Alex Bloom (Seymour, Wis./Seymour) broke a 28-year old record in the high jump, clearing 6' 10.5" for the new intrasquad mark. Province also set a new program best with a 60' 9.75" toss in the weight throw to earn the victory.

For the women, Woodall got things started when she tied the intrasquad meet record in the 200-meters, finishing in 25.0 seconds. Erika Hurd (Manchester, Md./Manchester Valley) tied a three-year-old mark in the high jump, going 5' 10.5", while Abrahamsson finished with a mark of 40' 1.5" in the triple jump, besting her own record of 39' 1.25" which she set in 2014. Annette Echikunwoke (Pickerington, Ohio/Pickerington North) rounded out the meet's records with a 60' 9.75" toss in the weight throw.

// UP NEXT
The UC Track and Field program begins the 2016 indoor season on Jan. 15-16 at the UK Invitational in Lexington, Kentucky.