{"id":430270,"date":"2026-10-17T06:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430270\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T06:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T06:33:29","slug":"dick-and-mekideche-lead-redhawks-at-pre-nationals-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430270\/","title":{"rendered":"Dick and Mekideche lead RedHawks at Pre-Nationals Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TERRE HAUTE, Ind.- The RedHawks ran in Terre Haute at the Under Armour Pre-National Invitational, competing against some of the top programs in the nation. <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/morgan-dick\/11282\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11282\" target=\"_blank\">Morgan Dick<\/a> led the RedHawk women and <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/ishak-mekideche\/11300\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11300\" target=\"_blank\">Ishak Mekideche<\/a> led the men&#8217;s team.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHow It Happened<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tDick was the first RedHawk to finish the 6K in 21:23.3. Seconds later, junior <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/cara-razavi\/10566\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10566\" target=\"_blank\">Cara Razavi<\/a> crossed the line in 21:30.9, and junior <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/linda-conchetto\/10524\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10524\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Conchetto<\/a> followed, crossing the line in 21:38.9.&#13;<br \/>\n\tThe next finisher for the RedHawks was <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/monica-guijarro\/10601\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10601\" target=\"_blank\">Monica Guijarro<\/a>, who completed the race in 22:00.1, followed by freshmen <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/grace-streek\/10605\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10605\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Streek<\/a> (23:35.6), <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/lily-eddington\/11284\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11284\" target=\"_blank\">Lily Eddington<\/a> (24:00.2) and <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/maggie-epp\/11293\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11293\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Epp<\/a> (24:09.1), respectively.&#13;<br \/>\n\tIn the men&#8217;s 8K event, sophomore Mekideche led the pack for the Miami men, with a quick time of 24:11.9. <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/chris-perkins\/10562\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10562\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Perkins<\/a> was the next RedHawk finisher in 24:31.9 finishing alongside him less than a second later was <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/luke-mussard\/10727\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10727\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Mussard<\/a> (24:32.4).&#13;<br \/>\n\tJunior <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/petros-sanchez-ropero\/10570\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10570\" target=\"_blank\">Petros Sanchez Ropero<\/a> was next, finishing in 24:39.6, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/ben-fahnestock\/10534\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10534\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Fahnestock<\/a> (24:44.1), <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/anis-abdaoui\/11320\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11320\" target=\"_blank\">Anis Abdaoui<\/a> (24:45.5), <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/josh-razor\/10567\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10567\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Razor<\/a> (24:47.1) and <a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/evan-jarold\/10729\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10729\" target=\"_blank\">Evan Jarold<\/a> (25:52.9).&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nUp Next <br \/>\nThe RedHawks are set to run next at the MAC Championships hosted in Kalamazoo, Mich. on Friday, Oct. 30.<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TERRE HAUTE, Ind.- The RedHawks ran in Terre Haute at the Under Armour Pre-National Invitational, competing against some&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-430270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430270","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=430270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}