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CANYON, Texas – West Texas A&M Track & Field broke a pair of school records on Saturday afternoon as they competed at the Corky Classic hosted by Texas Tech University at the Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas.
The Lady Buffs registered eight NCAA provisional marks over the two-day event along with a pair of broken school records. Asana Hamidu ran a time of 1:20.29 in the women’s 600 yards to finish third, setting a new WT record followed by running the third leg of the new record holding 4x400m relay squad with Sandra Appiah, Abigail Abugire and Blessing Akintoye (3:39.15).
Akintoye also claimed a second-place finish in the 400m with a time of 53.22 followed by Appiah in 15th (55.53). Abugire impressed in the women’s mile with a time of 4:57.50 to finish second overall followed by Kalkidan Vincendeau in 3rd (4:57.74) and Sarah Koomson in 5th (4:58.85).
The other Lady Buff 4×4 relay team of Sierra Cornell, Priscilla Anaglo, Cassandra Uribe, Esther Conde-Turpin finished 14th with a provisional mark of 3:47.45. Conde-Turpin continued her strong start to the season with 7th place finishes in both the long jump (6.01m) and the high jump (1.66m). Hope Gray registered a throw of 16.81m to place sixth in the weight throw.
The Buffs tallied five NCAA provisional marks in Lubbock with four of them coming in the 60m Dash. Four different Buffs qualified for the semifinals in the loaded meet: Jerry Jakpa (6.78), Kareem Small (6.76), Isaac Botsio (6.66) and James Dadzie (6.62). Botsio and Dadzie would be the only two Division II athletes in the finals with Dadzie finishing 4th (6.63) followed by Botsio in 5th (6.63).
Adrian Legarreta claimed a victory in the men’s mile with a time of 4:09.86 followed by Fintan Kavanagh in 7th (4:16.10) and Branch Cox in 8th (4:16.72).
West Texas A&M returns to the track on January 30-31 as they travel to Albuquerque to take part in the New Mexico Team Open held by UNM at the Albuquerque Convention Center.