UK Women’s 4x400 Relay Team Sets Fastest Time in the World

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky completed the Rod McCravy Memorial on Saturday in brilliant fashion when the women’s 4x400m relay team of Megan Moss, Abby Steiner, Dajour Miles and Alexis Holmes won the event with a time of 3:31.29 which is the second-fastest time in school history and the No. 1 time in the world currently.
 
For the second week in a row, Ellen Ekholm broke a school record in the women’s high jump with a mark of 6-01.25 (1.86-meters) while Joshua Sobota broke the men’s shot put school record with a 66-3.25 (20.20m) and finished second. Ekholm’s mark is good for first in the NCAA while Sobota’s mark places him in fifth.
 
Meanwhile in the women’s 400m, Alexis Holmes (52.27) and Megan Moss (52.85) finished second and fourth. Two unattached entries finished in first and third, meaning that Holmes has the fastest time in the NCAA while Moss sits in third. 
 
Kentucky will now take next weekend off and will be back at it on Feb. 7-8 at the Doc Hale Elite Meet in Blacksburg, Virginia. The distance runners are scheduled to compete on Feb. 8 at the Camel City Invitational in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 
 
UK Day One Event Winners
The men’s distance medley relay (DMR) team of Gabriel Szalay, Nathaniel Bann, Max LeClair and Matthew Thomas won the event with a time of 10:01.52. That time is good enough currently for eighth in the NCAA.
 
Abby Steiner won the women’s 200m with a 23.06 which currently leads the NCAA. Dajour Miles finished second with a time of 23.39 which places her in fourth in the NCAA this season. 
 
Langston Jackson won the men’s 200m with a 20.72 which currently is second in the NCAA.  
 
UK Day Two Event Winners
Ellen Ekholm won the women’s high jump and set another school record with a mark of 6-01.25 (1.86m).
 
Celera Barnes won the women’s 60m dash with a time of 7.30.
 
Langston Jackson won the men’s 60m dash with a time of 6.61. Jackson is now third in the NCAA. 
 
The women’s 4x400m relay team of Megan Moss, Abby Steiner, Dajour Miles and Alexis Holmes won the event with a time of 3:31.29 which is the second-fastest time in school history and the No. 1 time in the world currently.
 
The men’s 4x400m relay team of Cameron Council, Khance Meyers, Dwight St. Hillaire and Nathaniel Bann won the event with a time of 3:09.06.
 
Matthew Peare won the men’s pole vault and tied his school record mark of 17-8.50 (5.40m).
 
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