VIDEO: Morrison Wins National Championship
INDIANAPOLIS – Andre Morrison is a National Champion in the Men's 60m Dash.
In a season of firsts for Andre Morrison (St. Catherine, Jamaica), he ends the indoor season bringing home the hardware for the first national champion in the men's 60m dash in program history.
After qualifying with the second-highest preliminary mark on Thursday, Morrison jumped off the blocks out of lane five falling behind the top starters for the first two seconds of the championship heat.
Morrison powered through the next 30 meters taking a healthy load, coasting through the final ten meters and into the finish line.
After smacking into the padded cushions at the end of the short track, Morrison took off his runner ID paper across his chest revealing a handwritten note on the inside, that said "4 Granny."
Looking up at the scoreboard, it flashed "Andre Morrison – Carson-Newman – 6.59." Not only was it a natty for the junior transfer, it was a school record.
For the third time, Morrison smashed through the school record in the same indoor season. Eyes were on him in January as he broke through former Carson-Newman track star Devon Moore's record, and again when he broke his own in February.
But it was with the eyes of the nation on the modern C-N star, as he broke it a third time, on the country's biggest stage and became the first Eagle to crack a time under 6.60.
It was a SAC smackdown in the event with Catawba's Winfred Porter taking second place a full six-hundredths of a second behind the soaring Eagle.
Top preliminary qualifier Micah Gremling of Walsh rounded out the podium in third.
The one name on Morrison's radar all season was Joshua Caleb, the sprinter from Alaska Anchorage had been the only athlete able to run a faster time than Morrison, but he landed just off the podium in fourth with a 6.699.
It also gives first-year head coach Kieran Showler-Davis a national champion sprinter. A former Carson-Newman sprinter, Showler-Davis has made his mark in his first season at the helm.
The win for Morrison gives C-N its first individual track and field national champion in two years after, now Olympian, Makanakaishe Charamba won the individual crown in the 200m in 2023.
Carson-Newman Track and Field and Andre Morrison return to action to begin the outdoor season in just six days at the Lee Invitational in Cleveland, Tenn. and the Mountaineer First Chance meet in Boone, N.C. in a split-squad weekend.
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