BOONE, N.C. - The Brevard College Track and Field program began a new era of Indoor Track & Field with the program's first indoor event this decade at the John Weaver Invitational Indoor Track Meet hosted by Appalachian State University at the Holmes Convocation Center. The event kicked off a five-meet indoor schedule over the next three months for the Tornados.
Highlighting the performances was graduate student Channing Barker who won unopposed the Women's 3,000 Meter Run with a time of 11:24.96. Freshman Sarah Bare finished second in the Women's 300 Meter Dash with a 43.82, while freshman Serenity Jordan placed fourth in the 300.
In women's jumps, BC's Imani Singleton tied for fifth place in the triple jump with a 10.08-meter performance. Singleton followed with an eighth-place result in Saturday's long jump. Junior Abbey Waldrop (14th place) and freshman Elizabeth Foster (15th place) also represented the Tornados in long jump.
Foster also raced in the 55-meter hurdles where she placed eighth for the Tornados. Additionally, Singleton, Bare, Jordan and Waldrop all saw action in the Women's 55 Meter Dash preliminaries.
Junior Jaxsen Wilkerson made his collegiate indoor debut after a highly successful Outdoor Track & Field season last spring.
On Friday, Wilkerson finished fifth in the triple jump with an effort of 13.57 meters. Wilkerson went back to work on Saturday with a seventh-place (6.37 meters) result in long jump and a fourth-place finish in the Men's 55 Meter Hurdles.
In his collegiate debut, freshman Chris Mazo registered a triple jump of 11.19 meters, good for eighth place. Mazo also placed 10th in the long jump, leaping 5.56 meters.
BC junior Reggie Taylor II qualified for the finals of the Men's 55 Meter Dash and placed fifth with a time of 6.51 seconds.
Freshmen Jeffrey McDougal and Mazo, along with junior Seth Robinson, all raced for BC in the preliminaries of the sprint. Robinson also raced in the 400 Meter Dash where he placed eighth with a time of 59.77 seconds, while McDougal placed eighth (42.41) in the 300 meters.
BC's throwers competed on Friday in the weight throw, an event exclusive to indoor track & field. On Saturday, the throws continued with shot put action.
Junior Noah Westbrook earned one of Brevard's top results of the weekend with a fourth-place finish in the Men's Shot Put after a 13.86-meter throw in the event's finals. Antonio King threw 12.62 meters, good for 11th place in the shot put. Henry Tarte (22nd), Alfredo-Sixtos-Rodriguez (23rd) and Brian Seon (24th) also competed for the Tornados in the shot put.
Four Tornados competed in the Men's Weight Throw with Tarte leading the way with a 14th place finish. BC's King (18th), Westbrook (19th), Sixtos-Rodriguez (21st) and Seon (22nd) all placed as well in the event.
On the women's side Friday, Mary Vallentine led the way with a 16th place result in the Women's Shot Put. Freshman Kinsley Burris-Whiteside made her collegiate debut with a pair of 18th-place results in shot put and weighted throw.
Next up for the Tornados following the Winter Break, is the Mondo College Invitational on Friday, January 17 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
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