PITTSBURG, Kan.– The Drury men's and women's track & field squad completed their third outdoor event of the spring at the 13^th Annual David Suenram Gorilla Classic hosted by Pittsburg State in Pittsburg, Kansas, on Sunday. The event was originally scheduled for Saturday but pushed back a day due to rain.
 
Drury set five team records, and the women's 4x400 relay team shattered a program mark that had stood for 10 years.
 
Women's Highlights
Ashley Childers had Drury's best finish on Sunday as she came in third in the 200-meter dash. The freshman from Ozark, Arkansas, posted the second-best time in team history posting a 24.84. Childers also tied her own team record in the 100-meter dash as she finished ninth with a time of 12.18.
 
Imani Brown came in fourth in the 400-meter dash, and her time of :57.36 broke a team record she set a week ago. Jacy Rule came in 12^th in that event (1:00.60).
 
Lauren Shipley made her 2021 track & field debut and finished fourth in the 400-meter hurdles. The senior just re-joined the team two weeks after the completion of the 2020-21 basketball season and completed the event in 1:04.72, the second-fasted time in program history.
 
Drury's 4x400 relay team shattered a team record by more than 15 seconds and broke a mark that has stood for 10 years. Shipley, Childers, Rule, and Brown combined for a time of 3:57.46 and finished fourth among nine squads.
 
Anne Wagner was eighth among 19 competitors in the long jump with a leap of 5.24 meters.
 
Men's Highlights
Trevor Johnson set a team record in the 100-meter dash as the sophomore from DeSoto, Missouri, finished seventh among 17 runners. Johnson posted a time of 10.90, breaking a record he set earlier this season. He returned for the 200-meter dash and came in seventh among 32 runners with a time of 21.98.
 
Liam Lynch came in fifth in the 400-meter hurdles. The sophomore from Springfield and Kickapoo High School had the third-best time in team history, :57.00.
 
Brendan Bena, a junior from Jefferson City, Missouri, gave the Panthers a 10^th place finish in a field of 33 competitors in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:56.62.
 
Drury's 4x400 relay team set a team record and came in seventh among 12 teams. Johnson, Jeremiah Ellison, Matthew Chancia, and Bena combined for a time of 3:27.45.
 
 
The Drury track & field teams compete again on Friday in the Mule Relays hosted by Central Missouri in Warrensburg.
 
 
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