DENTON, Texas \u2014 The UNT track and field teams had a strong showing in the American Outdoor Championships at Norma Knobel Hunt Stadium, which marked the first time UNT has hosted the conference championship meet since joining the league.<\/p>\n
The Mean Green men took runner-up honors with 138 points to finish behind champion Wichita State, and the women tied for fourth with East Carolina with 72 points, as Rice claimed the women’s title.<\/p>\n
The highlight of the meet’s final day was, of course, the final event of the night, the 4×400 relay, when UNT’s men’s squad of Clarence McGill<\/a>, Chase Lehr<\/a>, Nehemiah Ray<\/a> and Chris Johnson<\/a> came from behind to beat favorite South Florida with a program-record and facility-record time of 3:05.91. Johnson passed the South Florida anchor on the final stretch while running a blazing 45.72 anchor split to edge out the Bulls by less than four-tenths of a second.<\/p>\n That was one of many podium finishes on the day final day for UNT, which got off to a good start with one of the first events of the day, as Marcus Kennedy<\/a> and Jeremiah Cams<\/a> took second and third, respectively, in the men’s high jump. Oluwatimilehim Williams<\/a> continued his run of success at American Conference Championships by taking third in the discus with a new program record of 59.95 meters to add to his win in the shot put on Friday with another PR and program record of 18.69 meters.<\/p>\n That gave way to the track, where London Maxwell<\/a> defended her 1,500-meter Outdoor championship with a 4:25.13, with a mile Indoor championship from February sandwiched in between.<\/p>\n Junior Aariyana Williams<\/a> had a trio of podium finishes with a second-place showing in the 400 and a third in the 200 before anchoring the women’s 4×400 relay squad of Lailah Hudson<\/a>, Kendahl Tucker<\/a> and C’Nai Childress<\/a> and Williams with a program record time of 3:36.39.<\/p>\n On the men’s track side, Lehr had\u00a0a dominant win in the men’s 800 with a 1:52.58 – his first of two gold medals on the day. Hendrick Hundl<\/a> broke his program record he set on Friday night in prelims with a 13.38 in the 110 hurdles to claim a runner-up showing. Tyler Moore<\/a> finished second in the 400 hurdles with a time of 50.46.<\/p>\n Late Friday night, Derrick Warren<\/a> and Anthony Ward<\/a> took second and third in the men’s long jump with new PRs of 7.90 meters and 7.80 meters, respectively. In the early running finals, the Mean Green also had a podium finisher when Ximena Lopez de Escalera<\/a> took third in the women’s 10,000 meters with a time of 35:36.97 on Thursday.<\/p>\n Jason Patrick<\/a> set the tone for the meet early on Thursday afternoon with a win in the hammer throw with a new PR distance of 66.05 meters.\u00a0 Also on Thursday, Akeel Hanchard<\/a> took third in the men’s javelin with a throw of 63.49 meters.<\/p>\n UNT will now await announcements of the field for the NCAA West Preliminary, which will be hosted in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on May 27-30.
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