The Eagles’ indoor track season ended with school records, personal records, and individual awards at the Conference Championship this past weekend.
Sophomore Daren Hinds and junior Toluwayan Agbeyomi had positive remarks when asked about how this season went.
“The season has been great,” Hinds said. “I ran a personal record in the 3000 meters and in the mile.”
Agbeyomi agreed with this assessment and offered some insight into how indoor track season usually goes for him as an individual.
“Indoor season is usually pretty tough. This has definitely been my best season so far. I typically don’t do well indoors at all so I’m glad I got some PRs (personal records) and a school record this time around. I guess it just comes with experience.”
Both Hinds and Agbeyomi performed well at the Big South Championship meet.
Hinds finished fourth in the distance medley relay with a time of 10:25.37 and fifth in the 3K run with his personal record time of 8:30.77.
Agbeyomi set a school record in the semifinals of the 200m dash on Friday with a time of 21.75. He also set a personal record in the 60-meter dash with a mark of 6.85.
Other members of the team performed as well.
Sophomore Jonquez Webb set a personal record when he ran a 6.87 in the 60-meter dash on Friday, which also qualified him for the finals of the event.
Senior Bautista Vivanco qualified for the finals of the 400m dash event with his time of 49.21 before improving on this time running a 49.06 in the finals.
In the jumping events, junior Kenneth Williams Jr. finished eighth in the long jump with a leap of 6.82 meters and fifth in the high jump with a mark of 1.96 meters.
The women’s team was proficient as well with graduate student To’Mara Carmichael winning the weight throw competition. Her winning toss traveled 17.69 meters.
Freshman Faith Wood set a personal record in the triple jump with a time of 10.86, landing her sixth place in the conference.
Freshman Johntavia Shaw also placed in the conference, achieving sixth in the shot put event with a mark of 13.65 meters.
The Eagles men’s track team broke two school records in the 200m dash and the 4×400 medley relay. Additionally, both the men’s and women’s teams had an athlete named to the All-Academic teams for Indoor Track and Field. Vivanco received the honor on the men’s side and senior Libby Roush for the women’s team.
Before the Conference Championship began, Hinds said “Our coach (coach Ben Paxton) wants us to be able to compete with the leading guys in the conference.”
With multiple school records broken multiple top-eight conference finishes and plenty of personal records set the Eagles have certainly met his expectations.
Eagles’ outdoor track season begins on Mar.17 at the 49er Classic in Charlotte, NC.
