Live Results (Green & Gold Invitational) |
Live Results (KMS Invite)
LORMAN, Miss. – The Alcorn State University women's track & field program is set to participate in both the Green & Gold Invitational and the KMS Invites this weekend with the Green & Gold taking place Friday and Saturday while the KMS is held on Sunday. Only the Lady Braves will be competing.
"We are going to put maximum effort into every event we are competing in and strive for perfection throughout the meet," said head coach
Jimmy Joseph.
There will be 17 other universities competing with Alcorn at the Green & Gold Invitational including Shorter, Little Rock, Tennessee Tech, Jackson State, Alabama, Troy, Texas-Tyler, Alabama State, New Orleans, Sewanee, Middle Tennessee, Tennessee State, Saint Leo, Chattanooga, UAB (host), Texas Southern and Bryan. The list for the KMS Invite has not been released.
The Invitational will get underway at 3 p.m. Friday with the weight throw and the triple jump while the running events will begin at 4 p.m. with the preliminaries for the 60m dash.
In the last outing for the Lady Braves, senior
Ty'Mesha Nabors had a career-best performance in the 400m, placing seventh with a personal-low time of 59.21 at the Samford Indoor Clash.
Fellow senior
Nathalya McMillion followed close behind Nabors, finishing in eighth place at 59.30 in the same event.
The best showing of the day came off the legs of the 1600-meter relay team as McMillion, Nabors, junior
Hali Jones and senior
Shaquanda Hill joined forces to cap off a fourth place finish in a time of 3:58.45.
In the field,
Justice Edwards logged a top-15 placement in the long jump, leaping 5.03m to place 12th. Edwards also took part in a running event, posting a time of 9.46 seconds in the 60m hurdles.
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