EMPORIA, Kan.– The Drury men's and women's track & field teams opened the spring season at the ESU Relays hosted by Emporia State in Emporia, Kansas on Saturday. The DU men's squad set two team records, while the women's squad set four new team marks during the weekend.
Men's Highlights
The Drury men's team set two records in their spring opener on Saturday.
Tracy Gates finished third among 13 competitors and set a new team mark in the triple jump. Gates, a transfer from Indian Hills Community College, broke a ten-year-old record with a leap of 14.23 meters.
John Schupbach broke a Drury record in the long jump that had stood since 2013. The junior from Monett posted a jump of 6.49 meters to finish sixth among 23 in the event.
Trevor Johnson was 0.02 seconds away from breaking a team record that he owns in the 100-meter dash. The junior from DeSoto, Missouri, finished 24
th among 53 runners with a time of 10.94. Johnson returned to finish 31
st among 81 runners in the 200-meter dash posting a time of 22.42.
In the shot put,
Byron King had a throw of 12.33 meters for the second-longest toss in team history. King finished 26
th in the event.
Colton Johnson had Drury's third-best time in the 400-meter hurdles completing the event in 1:01.47 to finish 23
rd.
The Drury men's team finished 14
th in the meet that was won by Iowa Central CC.
Women's Highlights
The Drury women's squad set four records on Saturday in Emporia, Kansas, and sprinter Ashley Childress set two of them.
Childress, a freshman from Ozark, Arkansas, was sixth among 60 runners in the 100-meter and set a team mark with a time of 12.18. She set another record in the 200-meter dash breaking the tape in 25.31 to finish ninth among 68 in the event.
Imani Brown broke Drury's record in the 400-meter dash and became the first women's runner in program history to break one-minute in the event. The freshman from Munster, Indiana, was eighth among 33 competitors with a time of :58.63. Jacy Rule was 14
th in the event with a time of 1:00.20, the third-best time on the Drury all-time chart.
Brown returned to finish second among 21 athletes in the high jump, clearing 1.68 meters, and tied the second-best jump in team history.
Jolie McClellan shattered Drury's record in the javelin. The freshman from Raymore, Missouri, was sixth among 34 competitors with a throw of 40.70 meters.
Valerie Daehler finished fourth out of 17 in the triple jump as she posted a leap of 10.77 meters, the second-best mark ever at Drury. Daehler had a long jump of 4.81 meters, fourth-best in team history, and she came in 23
rd in the event.
The Drury track & field teams compete again next weekend in the SBU Bearcat Invitational in Bolivar, Missouri on April 2-3.
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