VIDEO: Men's 4x400m School Record
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Carson-Newman Track and Field broke four school records and set multiple personal records at the 2025 Music City Challenge at Vanderbilt University.
Oluwafemi Richards (Hendersonville, Tenn.) started the meet for Carson-Newman with a second-place finish in his section of the men's high jump clearing a height of 1.98m.
Verrol Sam had a top-ten finish in the men's high jump invite with a clearance of 2.01m.
Sydney McCarty (Sevierville, Tenn.) was placed as the highest athlete from the Division II level in the women's long jump, with a distance of 5.58m.
Jenna Pittman (White Pine, Tenn.) set the first school record of the meet in the women's mile setting the third-best Division II time breaking her own record from last weekend setting a new C-N best 5:11.88.
Colton Lee (Knoxville, Tenn.) set the pace winning his section of the men's 3000m with a Carson-Newman indoor record 8:21.40. The time broke Luke Greer's record from 2018 under head coach David Needs.
Andre Morrison (Spanish Town, Jamaica) went back to doing Andre Morrison things. About a month after breaking Devon Moore's 60-meter record at the VMI Invitational, Morrison broke his own record in Nashville in a photo finish against Alaba Akintola, who was running unattached but is best known for representing Nigeria at international competitions. Morrison beat Akintola by four one-thousandths of a second, with times of 6.595 and 6.599.
In the final event of the meet, the men's 4x400m relay, Carson-Newman broke its record from two seasons ago as Rylan Jordan (Johnson City, Tenn.), Taylor Dupler, Favour Ekpekpe, and Ethan Blaylock (Knoxville, Tenn.) set a time of 3:16.78, breaking the previous record by around five whole seconds. C-N placed ninth in the event.
Jordan placed fifth in the individual 400m unseeded division with a time of 48.65.
Ekpekpe and Amine Kasmi (Brussels, Belgium) placed in the top ten in the men's 200m with times of 21.35 and 21.50 for third and sixth place, respectively.
Sade De Sousa (Namibia) tallied a third-best qualifying time in the women's 60m sprint and ended the meet placing sixth overall.
Carson-Newman has just one more indoor meet before the SAC Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Virginia Tech Challenge in Blacksburg, Va. next weekend on February 21 and 22 at Rector Field House.
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