College Track and Field Results – Six Quakers Advance to Finals in Day One at ODAC Championships

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Six Guilford College track and field athletes on the men’s and women’s sides qualified for finals in five different events in day one of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Championships at Lynchburg College. The men stand eighth with six points while the women placed ninth with one point.

Josephus Mitchell (Winston-Salem, N.C./R.J. Reynolds) and Alex Martin (Pfafftown, N.C./Reagan) each qualified for tomorrow’s 100 meter dash finals as Mitchell narrowly missed first place by three-thousands of a second, placing second with a time of 10.958 seconds. Martin claimed the final qualifying spot, finishing eighth with a time of 11.23 seconds. Mitchell also qualified for the finals in the 200 meter dash, placing third with a time of 22.37 seconds, one-tenth of a second away from second place and .5 seconds off of the top spot.

Martin also picked up five points for the Quakers with a fourth-place finish in the long jump with a mark of 6.63 meters. Nate Phillips rounded Guilford’s day-one scoring by placing eighth in the long jump with a mark of 6.06 meters.

Yashua Clemons qualified for tomorrow’s 400 meter hurdles finals with a seventh-place finish at 57.86 seconds. The finish is second all-time in school history.

Hyson Howard qualified for the 110 meter hurdles championship tomorrow, placing seventh with a time of 16.81 seconds. The finish is second all-time in school history and the top time in Guilford’s Divison III era.

Amy Steller (Advance, N.C./Davie County) captured Guilford’s lone women’s qualification for an event final tomorrow, placing seventh in the 400 meter dash with a time of 1:01.00. The time also broke her own school record by 2.74 seconds.

Rebecca Reyna (Liberty, N.C./Southern Alamance) collected the Quakers’ lone point with an eighth-place finish in the 3,000 meter steeplechase with a time of 12:56.50, the fifth-fastest in school history. She now owns four of the school’s top seven finishes.

Ymani Breedlove set a new school record in the 200 meter dash, placing 14th with a time of 28.38 seconds. The record is .43 seconds faster than the previous record.

The Quakers continue tomorrow with championship events in all sprinting events plus remaining distance races and field events in day two of the ODAC Championships.