ALLENDALE, Mich. - On the final day of the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Championships, Makanakaishe Charamba earned three bronze medals in three different events to close out his freshman season.
The day opened with a bang for the convocation, as the men's 4x100 meter relay group of PJ Lotharp, Makanakaishe Charamba, Siphosethu Boya, and Devon Moore took home the bronze medal, finishing third with another school record time in the event. The quartet recorded a time of 39.63 seconds, beating the old record time they set in the preliminary round on Thursday, May 26, by 0.12 seconds. The group has now broken the school record in five straight races.
With the third place finish, Charamba earns his first career All-American honor, while Lotharp and Boya earn their first All-American honors at Carson-Newman. Lotahrp earned All-American honors last season with the Lenoir-Rhyne men's 4x100 meter relay group. Devon Moore earns a school record eleventh career All-American honor.
The group are the first C-N relay group in program history to earn All-American honors.
Well that record didn't last long.
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In the 100-meter run finals, Charamba took home his second bronze medal of the day, finishing third with a time of 10.52 seconds. His teammate Boya finished sixth with a time of 10.56 seconds. The pair earn their first individual All-American honors at Carson-Newman. With the top-eight finishes, C-N has had an All-American represented in the men's 100-meter run in four straight outdoor seasons.
Charamba ends his first season in Mossy Creek with eight top-five finishes in the 100-meter run, while Boya recorded five top-10 finishes in the event.
Charamba closed out his freshman campaign with his third bronze medal at the championships, finishing third in the 200-meter run. His time of 20.44 seconds is just 0.03 seconds away from tying his school record set in the prelims on Friday, May 27.
Chramba ends the year with seven top-three finishes in the outdoor 200-meter run.
"It was a good day," says needs "Maka showed a lot of strength for a freshman. Sipho gutted out a top-eight finish despite a quad injury. Both of those guys once again went out and broke a school record. When you go out and run two-three races in a day and finish at that high of a level, you've done a great job. All of our guys put in their maximum effort and every single one of them are coming back as All-Americans. Our entire staff worked hard and made this a special trip that we will remember for a really long time."
The Carson-Newman men's team ended the outdoor championships with 26 total points, finishing 12th. The convocation finish the season with eight first team All-Americans and one second team All-American.
