{"id":217156,"date":"2026-04-03T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217156\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T07:16:16","slug":"blue-raiders-set-for-pepsi-florida-relays-in-gainesville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/217156\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Raiders Set for Pepsi Florida Relays in Gainesville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gainesville, FL \u2014 Middle Tennessee track and field travels to Gainesville to compete in the Pepsi Florida Relays from Friday, April 3, through Saturday, April 4.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About Middle Tennessee\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nAt Raleigh Relays, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/faith-nyathi\/14456\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14456\" target=\"_blank\">Faith Nyathi<\/a> secured 30th place in the Women&#8217;s 10,000 meter invitational, clocking in at 34:03.71. \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn the 1500 meters, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/privillege-chikara\/14449\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14449\" target=\"_blank\">Privillege Chikara<\/a> achieved a personal best, surpassing her previous record set at the 2025 CUSA Outdoor Track &amp; Field Championship, finishing with a time of 4:18.18 in 19th place. Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/eleanor-towe\/14463\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14463\" target=\"_blank\">Eleanor Towe<\/a> recorded a season-best time of 4:33.95 at the same event.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At The Pepsi Florida Relays\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Blue Raiders who will complete are <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/joel-iheakolam\/14428\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14428\" target=\"_blank\">Joel Iheakolam<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/wail-bourahli\/14423\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14423\" target=\"_blank\">Wail Bourahli<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/privillege-chikara\/14449\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14449\" target=\"_blank\">Privillege Chikara<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/james-thomas-jr-\/14439\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14439\" target=\"_blank\">James Thomas Jr.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field\/roster\/chidinma-agu\/14795\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14795\" target=\"_blank\">Chidinma Agu<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/goblueraiders.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/mustapha-bokpin\/14803\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14803\" target=\"_blank\">Mustapha Bokpin<\/a>. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keeping up with the Blue Raiders \u00a0\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nKeep up with Blue Raider cross country and track and field on Facebook (Middle Tennessee Blue Raider XC\/Track &amp; Field), Twitter (@MT_TrackField), and Instagram (@mt_trackfield).\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gainesville, FL \u2014 Middle Tennessee track and field travels to Gainesville to compete in the Pepsi Florida Relays&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-217156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}