Powers Wins Gold on Day Two of SEC Indoor Championships
BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas – It was a golden day for the Wildcats at the track on Friday at the R.A. Murray Fasken Indoor Facility, as UK captured its first medal of this week’s SEC Indoor Championships in College, Station, Texas.
Yesterday, junior Carli Makarawu continued his historic season today by setting yet another school record in the 200m prelims, breaking the same record he broke just two weeks ago in Clemson at the Tiger Paw Invite. His 20.20 time also broke the SEC Indoor meet record, as well as the venue record for the Fasken Indoor Facility. Makarawu will compete for gold tomorrow night at 5:30 p.m. CST in the 200m final.
Today, sophomore Kate Powers struck gold for the first time in her young career with a 22.13m final mark in the women’s weight throw final event, beating out Ole Miss’s Skylar Soli by and Auburn’s Adrienne Adams for the gold medal. Today’s feat marks the first collegiate medal for Powers, who currently holds the all-time program record for women’s weight throw, in just her second season in Lexington.
During the evening events, five Wildcats qualified for the final in their respective competitions, including Collins Kiprop Kipngok (Men’s Mile), Sharmelle Holmes (women’s 60m), Jenna Schwinghamer and Janet Jepkemboi Amimo (women’s 800m) and Alexis Glasco (women’s 60m hurdles). Those final events will begin tomorrow at 4:05 p.m. CST and conclude at 5:22 p.m. CST.
Tomorrow’s events for the Cats begin at 2:30 p.m. CST with Grayson Brashear competing in the men’s shot put final, and later with the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay final at 6:45 and 7:05 p.m. CST, respectively.
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Event Schedule
| SEC Indoor Championships: Thursday, February 27: ALL TIMES IN CENTRAL TIME | |||
| Women’s Pentathlon 60m Hurdles | 11:30 a.m. | FINAL | 7. Julia Gunnell – 8.64 (PR)
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| Women’s Pentathlon High Jump | 12:20 p.m. | FINAL | 13. Julia Gunnell – 1.60m/5-3 (PR) |
| Women’s Pentathlon Shot Put | 2:30 p.m. | FINAL | 5. Julia Gunnell – 11.70m/38-4.75 (PR) |
| Women’s Pentathlon Long Jump | 3:30 p.m. | FINAL | 15. Julia Gunnell – 5.46m/17-11 |
| Men’s Pole Vault | 4:00 p.m. | FINAL | 13. Shane Racey – 5.20m/17.75
14. Brayden Jackson – 5.05m/16-6.75 |
| Women’s Pentathlon 800m | 4:40 p.m. | FINAL | 4. Julia Gunnell – 2:17.61 |
| Men’s 200m | 5:00 p.m. | PRELIMS | 1. Carli Makarawu – 20.20 (PR) (MR) (Facility Record) (No. 1 UK All-Time)
19. Shavique Bascus – 21.23 25. Clinton Muunga – 21.74
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| Women’s Long Jump | 5:00 p.m. | FINAL | 19. Morgan Davis – 5.84m/19-2
24. Aliyah Adams – 5.62m/18-5.25
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| Women’s 200m | 5:30 p.m. | PRELIMS | 11. Sharmelle Holmes – 23.35 (PR)
19. Stacey Onyepunka – 23.70 (PR) 22. Hannah Douglas – 23.81
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| Men’s 5000m | 6:00 p.m. | FINAL | 24. Jack Pendergast – 14:25.16 (PR)
25. Caden Miracle – 14:25.67 (PR) 27. Jackson Watts – 14:36.33
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| Women’s 5000m | 6:25 p.m. | FINAL | 23. Mollie Roden – 16:56.71
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| Men’s DMR | 6:50 p.m. | FINAL | 7. Kentucky – 9:37.91 (SB) |
| Women’s DMR | 7:20 p.m. | FINAL | 6. Kentucky – 11.11.55 |
| Women’s Pentathlon | FINAL | 9. Julia Gunnell – 3908 (PR) (No. 5 UK All-Time) | |
| SEC Indoor Championships: Friday, February 28: ALL TIMES IN CENTRAL TIME | |||
| Men’s Weight Throw | 11:00 a.m. | FINAL | 7. Logan Coles – 21.41m/70-3 (PR) (No. 2 UK All-Time)
19. Daroyce Flemons – 19.59m/64-3.25 21. Grayson Brashear – 18.98m/62-3.25 (PR)
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| Women’s Weight Throw | 1:30 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Kate Powers – 22.13m/72-7.25 (Gold Medal) (Facility Record)
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| Men’s Mile | 4:00 p.m. | PRELIMS | 12. Collins Kiprop Kipngok – 4:04.80 (Q)
31. Sami Hattab – 4:10.46
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| Women’s Mile | 4:26 p.m. | PRELIMS | 15. Ally Kruger – 4:48.32 |
| Men’s 60m | 4:50 p.m. | PRELIMS | 16. Miles Jones – 6.69
21. Clinton Muunga – 6.75 27. Shavique Bascus 33. Troy Lane – 6.90 Carli Makarawu – DNS
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| Women’s 60m | 5:02 p.m. | PRELIMS | 5. Sharmelle Holmes – 7.27 (Q)
Victoria Perrow – DNF
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| Women’s 400m | 5:39 p.m. | PRELIMS | 12. Oneika McAnnuff – 52.52
31. A’Laji Bradley – 55.26 (PR)
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| Men’s 800m | 6:13 p.m. | PRELIMS | 16. Alex Justus – 1:50.61
30. Patrick Faust – 1:55.25
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| Women’s 800m | 6:35 p.m. | PRELIMS | 6. Jenna Schwinghamer – 2:05.54 (Q)
8. Janet Jepkemboi Amimo – 2:05.75 (Q) 11. Cha’iel Johnson – 2:07.35 (PR) 21. Phoebe McCowan – 2:12.96
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| Men’s 60m Hurdles | 6:50 p.m. | PRELIMS | 17. Anthony Waterman – 7.99
Alex Chukwukelu – DNS
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| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 7:02 p.m. | PRELIMS | 5. Alexis Glasco – 8.11(SB) (Q)
14. Kori Martin – 8.35 15. Camden Bentley – 8.36 16. Emmi Scales – 8.37 |
| SEC Indoor Championships: Saturday, March 1: ALL TIMES IN CENTRAL TIME | |||
| Men’s Shot Put | 2:30 p.m. | FINAL | Grayson Brashear
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| Women’s Pole Vault | 3:30 p.m. | FINAL | Payton Phillips, Chelsea Wetzel, Annie Murphy, Kaitlyn Cain
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| Men’s Triple Jump | 3:30 p.m. | FINAL | Luke Brown |
| Men’s Mile | 4:05 p.m. | FINAL | Collins Kiprop Kipngok |
| Women’s 60m | 4:32 p.m. | FINAL | Sharmelle Holmes |
| Women’s Triple Jump | 4:45 p.m. | FINAL | Aliyah Adams, Morgan Davis, Sophie Galloway
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| Women’s Shot Put | 5:00 p.m. | FINAL | Shelby Wingler |
| Men’s 3000m | 5:00 p.m. | FINAL | Ed Bird, Collins Kiprop Kipngok, Jackson Watts
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| Women’s 800m | 5:07 p.m. | FINAL | Jenna Schwinghamer, Janet Jepkemboi Amimo
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| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 5:22 p.m. | FINAL | Alexis Glasco |
| Men’s 200m | 5:30 p.m. | FINAL | Carli Makarawu |
| Women’s 3000m | 6:20 p.m. | FINAL | Ally Kruger, Mollie Roden |
| Men’s 4x400m | 6:45 p.m. | FINAL | Kentucky |
| Women’s 4x400m | 7:05 p.m. | FINAL | Kentucky |
