{"id":236485,"date":"2026-04-18T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236485\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T02:49:08","slug":"state-completes-split-meet-day-between-wake-forest-and-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236485\/","title":{"rendered":"State Completes Split Meet Day Between Wake Forest And Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Mississippi State track and field concluded day one of the Tom Jones Memorial, hosted by Florida, and day two of the Wake Forest Invitational, hosted by Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p>Action in Florida began in the men&#8217;s hammer throw, with <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/caleb-kaplan\/12593\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12593\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Kaplan<\/a> moving to No. 2 in program history in the event with a new personal best 61.38m.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/khalil-antoine\/12704\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12704\" target=\"_blank\">Khalil Antoine<\/a> set a personal best in the high jump at 2.15m, finishing second overall in the invitational section.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/roury-mccloyen\/12597\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12597\" target=\"_blank\">Roury McCloyen<\/a> capped off the day in the field events, taking the win in the men&#8217;s invitational section. The junior earned an outdoor personal best of 19.61m in the event, extending his No. 2 spot on the MSU all-time list. His throw ranks top-10 in the NCAA and top-5 in the SEC.<\/p>\n<p>In Winston-Salem. The Bulldogs had a short day of competition. <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/hunter-anderson\/12569\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12569\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Anderson<\/a> competed in her second 1500m race of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/gabrielle-boulay\/12528\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12528\" target=\"_blank\">Gabrielle Boulay<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hailstate.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/milicent-kemboi\/12595\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12595\" target=\"_blank\">Milicent Kemboi<\/a> closed out the final day of the meet, competing in their first 5000m this outdoor season.<\/p>\n<p>Action will resume tomorrow morning in Gainesville for the final day of the Tom Jones Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Mississippi State track and field program, visit HailState.com and follow &#8220;HailStateTF&#8221; on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HailStateTF\" rel=\"nofollow\">X (formerly Twitter)<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/hailstatetf\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HailStateTF\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GAINESVILLE, Fla. \u2013 Mississippi State track and field concluded day one of the Tom Jones Memorial, hosted by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":{"0":"post-236485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-headlines","10":"tag-florida-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236485","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=236485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}