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Nation's Top Mark Earned at the D3 Challenge

Nation's Top Mark Earned at the D3 Challenge
Posted: Mar 27, 2023

Seguin, Texas- Both the Men's and Women's Track and Field teams competed in the D3 Challenge hosted by Texas Lutheran University on Saturday, March 25th.

"We competed exceptionally well, saw new Pirates make competition debuts, and continued to break school records. It was a great weekend to be a Pirate! We need to use this momentum to focus our training through the midpoint of our season," said Head Coach Eboh. This was the third meet for the Pirates, and they used it as the perfect opportunity to get some new personal records. 

Men's Personal Records:

"This meet put a lot of athletes in the top 6 of the SCAC leaderboard, and set the stage for potentially scoring a lot of team points when we have our conference championship here at Southwestern in April," said Coach Tuttle. "Track season can be a grind, and I think this weekend was exactly what we needed to reignite and refocus as we enter championship season. More big marks are around the corner!" 

Two other notable Personal Records are new Southwestern University records! Freshman, Michael Roper's previous triple jump record lasted exactly one week as he improved his mark to 13.55 Meters. Adrian Washington broke his previous school high jump record with the current Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference and NCAA DIII leading clearance of 6-8.25"/2.04m Saturday at the D3 Challenge hosted by Texas Lutheran University. "Once Adrian Cleared 2.04 he was the last man standing. All eyes were on him to see if he could clear the next height and beyond. His performance and potential open a path as a National Qualifier."  stated Coach Eboh. "The jumps squad was incredibly impressive this weekend. David and Michael had to go from jumping, to running races, to back to the pits to finish jumping. It takes a lot of discipline and strength to not only jump these top SCAC marks, but also manage the timing, rest, nutrition, and so much more that being a dual-threat runner/jumper requires on meet days," said Tuttle. 

 

Coach Joe Sponsel had this to say about his runner's efforts, "The 800m was our main focus this weekend for the mid-distance group. We made some tactical adjustments after talking about everyone's races last weekend and worked on those in training this week. Although nobody ran a PR, the whole group was able to implement those new ideas at the meet and have a better understanding of the 800m distance..Now that we've got those adjustments down, we can keep working on just getting in better shape and looking forward to our next opportunity to show what we can do."

FULL RESULTS FOR THE D3 CHALLENGE CAN BE FOUND HERE. 

Next up for the Pirates is the Bobcat Invitational 2023 hosted by Texas State University Friday March 31st and Saturday April 1st.