Wildcats Total 10 Wins, Eight Top 10 Marks in Indoor Season Opener at Commodore Winter Challenge
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Kentucky Wildcats kicked off the new indoor track season today in Nashville, Tenn. at the Commodore Winter Challenge, featuring as the final meet of the 2025 calendar year.
In the first meet of the 2025-26 season, the Wildcats totaled 10 event wins on the day, including Kate Powers (Weight Throw), Grayson Brashear (Weight Throw), Emmi Scales (60m Hurdles), Miles Jones (60m), Sharmelle Holmes (60m) and Meagan Ewers (Shot Put) at the top of the day.
Eight Wildcats also improved their personal best times in their respective events, along with climbing the all-time UK leaderboard. Those top 10 marks for the Cats included Emmi Scales posted the fourth-fastest time (8.05) in the women’s 60m hurdles final, Anthony Waterman ran the eighth-best time (7.90) in the men’s 60m hurdles final. Miles Jones ran the ninth-fastest time (6.65) in the men’s 60m final and Hannah Douglas finished with the fifth-best time (37.42) in the women’s 300m.
Later in the afternoon, junior transfer Tyrique Johnson, in his first meet with Kentucky, ran the 10th-fastest indoor 300m time, crossing the finish line at a career-best 33.88.
In the men’s and women’s 600m events, freshman Vanice Kerubo Nyagisera and junior Patrick Faust both set a new program record, winning their respective events with times of 1:26.99 and 1:18.29.
In the women’s 4x400m relay, the Cats sent four teams into the event, placing second, fourth, fifth and seventh. In the men’s relay, Kentucky placed second with a time of 3:09.88.
The Wildcats will have a little over a month before their next meet, as they are set to host the annual Rod McCravy Memorial Invitational at the Norton Center in Louisville, Ky. after the turn of the calendar on Jan. 9-10.
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Event Schedule
| Commodore Winter Challenge: Saturday, December 6: ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME | |||
| Women’s Weight Throw | 9:30 a.m. | FINAL | 1. Kate Powers – 20.99m
2. Meagan Ewers – 19.99m (PR) 4. Gwyn Lori – 16.99m (PR) 10. Addison Stadsholt – 15.08m (PR)
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| Women’s High Jump | 9:30 a.m. | FINAL | 2. Kemarah Howard – 1.70m |
| Men’s High Jump | 9:30 a.m. | FINAL | 2. Devin Sealey – 2.05m |
| Men’s Long Jump | 11:00 a.m. | FINAL | 4. Kingi McNair – 7.29m (PR) |
| Women’s Long Jump | 11:00 a.m. | INVITE | 5. Skyler Reynolds – 5.68m |
| Men’s Pole Vault | 11:00 a.m. | FINAL | 8. Grant Harrison – 4.86m (PR)
12. Jack Marek – 4.71m (PR) |
| Men’s Weight Throw | 11:30 a.m. | FINAL | 1. Grayson Brashear – 19.09m (62-7.75) (PR)
3. Brock Conrad – 18.23m (59-9.75) (PR) 9. Cian Crampton – 14.95m (49-0.75) (PR) |
| Women’s Long Jump | 12:30 p.m. | FINAL | 4. Dahlia Beasley – 5.77m
7. Julia Gunnell – 5.63m |
| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 1:00 p.m. | PRELIMS | 1. Emmi Scales – 8.23 (Q)
5. Camden Bentley – 8.46 (Q) 7. Rukia Nusra Omulisia – 8.55 (Q) 8. Kori Martin – 8.61 (Q) 11. Julia Gunnell – 8.87 22. Dahlia Beasley – 9.33 Kashia Hoo – DNS Alene Washington – DNS
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| Men’s 60m Hurdles | 1:25 p.m. | PRELIMS | 2. Anthony Waterman – 7.93 (Q) (PR) |
| Women’s Shot Put | 1:30 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Meagan Ewers – 14.61m (PR)
3. Gwyn Lori – 14.06m (PR) 9. Julia Gunnell – 11.71m 25. Dahlia Beasley – 8.41m Addison Stadsholt – NHS |
| Women’s 60m | 1:45 p.m. | PRELIMS | 3. Sharmelle Holmes – 7.38 (Q)
6. Naseera Eufa Quansah – 7.47 (Q) 9. Briana St. Louis – 7.62 (Q) 13. Briley Cline – 7.69 (Q) |
| Women’s Pole Vault | 2:00 p.m. | FINAL | 4. Kaylee Daniel – 3.95m (PR) (No. 10 UK All-Time)
5. Chelsea Wetzel – 3.80m 8. Annie Murphy – 3.80m |
| Men’s 60m | 2:00 p.m. | PRELIMS | 1. Miles Jones – 6.70 (Q)
3. Denzel Simusiaela – 6.79 (Q) 5. Coy Hyre – 6.80 (Q) (PR) 14. Jack Marek – 6.96 17. Oscar Baltan Vivero – 6.98 19. Zyre Stewart-McLaren – 6.98 |
| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 2:45 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Emmi Scales – 8.05 (PR) (No. 4 UK All-Time)
5. Kori Martin – 8.36 6. Camden Bentley – 8.37 7. Rukia Nusra Omulisia – 8.48 |
| Men’s 60m Hurdles | 2:55 p.m. | FINAL | 2. Anthony Waterman – 7.90 (PR) (No. 8 UK All-Time) |
| Men’s 60m | 3:05 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Miles Jones – 6.65 (PR) (No. 9 UK All-Time)
3. Denzel Simusialela – 6.72 4. Coy Hyre – 6.74 |
| Women’s 60m | 3:15 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Sharmelle Holmes – 7.28
5. Naseera Efua Quansah – 7.47 Briana St. Louis – DNS |
| Men’s Triple Jump | 3:30 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Theo Mudzengerere – 16.04m (PR) (No. 2 UK All-Time) |
| Men’s Shot Put | 3:30 p.m. | FINAL | 4. Grayson Brashear – 16.79m
8. Brock Conrad – 15.14m |
| Women’s 300m | 3:35 p.m. | FINAL | 2. Hannah Douglas – 37.42 (PR) (No. 5 UK All-Time)
4. Briana St. Louis – 37.97 (PR) 6. Emmi Scales – 38.19 8. Stacey Onyepunuka – 38.27 10. Tressia Davis – 39.07 (PR) 12. Dhalia Beasley – 39.56 (PR) 16. JahQueen McClellan – 40.03 17. Rukia Nusra Omulisia – 40.15 (PR) 29. Briley Cline – 41.24 30. Alene Washington – 41.29 (PR) 33. Kashia Hoo – 41.60 (PR) A’Laji Bradley – DNF Julia Gunnell – DNS |
| Men’s 300m | 3:55 p.m. | FINAL | 7. Tyrique Johnson – 33.88 (PR) (No. 10 UK -All-Time)
12. TK Pahuwa – 34.30 14. Brandon Nyandoro – 34.51 22. Zyrie Stewart-McLaren – 35.68 (PR) |
| Women’s 600m | 4:15 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Vanice Kerubo Nyagisera – 1:26.99 (PR) (Kentucky Record)
Cha’iel Johnson – DNS |
| Men’s 600m | 4:35 p.m. | FINAL | 1. Patrick Faust – 1:18.29 (PR) (Kentucky Record) |
| Women’s 4x400m | 5:05 p.m. | FINAL | 2. Kentucky – 3:36.60
4. Kentucky – 3:45.70 6. Kentucky – 3:50.13 7. Kentucky – 3:55.52 |
| Men’s 4x400m | 5:20 p.m. | FINAL | 2. Kentucky – 3:09.88 |
