THE FLATS – Yellow Jacket track & field looks to host the 2021 Georgia Tech Invitational at Griffin Track this Friday, April 16 & Saturday, April 17. A full schedule of the meet can be found here. More information regarding the Invitational can be found here.
Week Five will see the Jackets line up against Alabama-Huntsville (M/W), Augusta (M/W), Boston College (M), Charleston Southern (M/W), Chattanooga (W), Clark Atlanta (W), Emory (M/W), Georgia Southern (W), Georgia State (W), Hillsdale College (M/W), Jacksonville State (W), Kennesaw State (M/W), Lee (M/W), Mississippi College (M/W), Transylvania Univ. (M) and Valdosta State (M/W).
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Also Receiving Votes: Mercy Chelangat (Alabama); Anna Cockrell (Southern California); Anna Hall (Georgia); Marie-Therese Obst (Georgia); Camryn Rogers (California); Courtney Wayment (BYU)
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Clark, who hails from High Point, North Carolina, is the third woman from Alabama to make The Bowerman Watch List and the first since 2017. She won the Florida Relays 200 meters in a PR 22.50 which leads the nation outdoors after an indoor best of 22.45 that ties her for No. 7 on the all-time collegiate list. She was second at the NCAA Indoor in the 200 and fourth in 60. In the 100 she has clocked 11.07.
Davis, who hails from Agoura Hills, California, added the outdoor collegiate record in the long jump to match the indoor version. Her leap of 7.14m (23-5¼) to win the Texas Relays broke one the oldest records on the books, dating back more than 35 years to the legendary Jackie Joyner. Davis is now the first woman to hold the indoor and outdoor CRs at the same since another l
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. – Veronica Fraley had a historic outing on Friday evening during the women’s discus throw and shot put competitions at the 53rd Tennessee Relays, as the junior from Raleigh, N.C., produced a school-record performance in the discus throw and a No. 2 all-time mark in the shot put. The success came following Fraley’s marks of 56.70 meters (186 feet) and 16.30m (53-5.75) in the discus and shot put, respectively.
Fraley entered the meet as the No. 2 all-time performer in the discus and No. 3 all-time performer in the shot put, and is now the first athlete in Clemson history to eclipse the 56-meter mark in the women’s discus. Entering Friday’s competition, Fraley’s mark in the discus would have ranked ninth nationally.
INDIANAPOLIS Running his fastest 400m hurdles time since 2018,
Kenny Selmon (Mableton, Georgia) was selected as the 12th USATF Athlete of the Week award winner for 2021.
Selmon, a 2013 World Youth bronze medalist who won the 2018 USATF title in his specialty, was victorious at the USATF Sprint Summit in Prairie View, Texas, surging over the final half of the race to win in a world-leading 48.87. His time is the fastest by an American since 2019 and is almost a half-second faster than anyone else globally in 2021.
More top performances from the past week:
Morolake Akinosun won the women’s 100m at the USATF Sprint Summit in 11.26 into a stiff 1.3 mps wind.