AUSTIN \u2014 The Mean Green track and field program competed against some of the best in the country over the weekend at the Texas Relays and came away with a championship and several new program records.<\/p>\n
Junior Ximena Lopez broke the program record and won the gold medal in the women’s 10k with a time of 35:06.62 on Thursday night to score the program’s lone win of the meet.<\/p>\n
Other podium finishes came from seniors Akeel Hanchard<\/a> and Mackenzie Kuehl<\/a> got third in the men’s and women’s javelin throw, respectively, as Hanchard\u00a0notched a new personal-best throw of 68.22 meters and Kuehl took third with a 48.53-meter throw. Sophomore Olu Williams took third in the men’s discus with a throw of 56.93 meters, and senior Derrick Warren<\/a> finished third in the long jump with a jump of 7.20 meters.<\/p>\n The men’s sprint medley relay team of Nehemiah Ray<\/a>, Warren, Chris Johnson<\/a> and Chase Lehr<\/a> broke a 43-year-old program record to finish second in a time of 3:18.02. A pair of other program records fell on Friday, as well, as senior Hendrick Hundl<\/a> demolished his own program record in the 110-meter hurdles by nearly two-tenths of a second when he ran a 13.60 in prelims and ended up finishing fourth in the final with a 13.84. Sophomore Trezeguet Taylor<\/a> broke the program record in the women’s 100-meter dash with a time of 11.46, which tied the previous mark from 2023, but that mark was wind-aided.<\/p>\n The Mean Green will be back to competition next weekend when they head to College Station for Texas A&M’s 44 Farms Invite, which runs Thursday-Saturday.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN \u2014 The Mean Green track and field program competed against some of the best in the country…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-235507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}