Five Top 10 Marks Fall on Final Day of Razorback Invitational
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Kentucky Wildcats closed out their fourth meet of the 2025-26 season today in Fayetteville, Ark. on the final day of the annual Razorback Invitational.
The Wildcats totaled five top 10 program marks, three event wins and a freshman record by high jumper Kemarah Howard on the weekend in Fayetteville, all three coming on day two, highlighted by yet another impressive performance from the hurdles and jumps groups.
For the first win of the day, in just her second event as a Wildcat, freshman transfer Ann Lemirisho earned her first career win in a Kentucky uniform, placing atop the leaderboard in the women’s 3000m final with a time of 9:30.62.
Emmi Scales reclaimed a spot atop the national rankings, tying the NCAA’s best women’s 60m hurdles time with a career-best of 7.96, earning a pair of wins in the first two rounds of the event. Scales would later place second in the final with a time of 8.01.
In the men’s mile event, 2025 SEC Outdoor Steeplechase Champion Collins Kiprop Kipngok ran a personal best time and the seven-fastest mark in UK history at 3:59.71. In the women’s section of the mile race, cross country standouts Doricah Minsari Isoe and Ally Kruger placed sixth and seventh, respectively, and added their names to the UK all-time top 10 list, coming in at No. 5 and No. 8.
Senior Hannah Douglas added the sixth program top 10 mark in the women’s 400m final, placing fourth with the third-fastest time in school history at 52.14.
In the men’s triple jump final, senior Theo Mudzengerere placed third, his fourth top three finish of the season, with a final distance of 16.37m/53-8.5.
In the final events of the meet, the men’s and women’s 4x400m relay teams placed ninth in both sections with times of 3:08.81 and a season best 3:33.79 to close out the weekend in Arkansas.
Next up for Kentucky will be a dual-meet weekend on Feb. 13-14 at the Tiger Paw Invitational in Clemson, S.C. and a distance only meet in Boston, Mass. at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational.
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Event Schedule
| Razorback Invitational: Friday, January 30: ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME | |||
| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 1:00 p.m. | Pentathlon | 4. Julia Gunnell – 8.64 (T-PR)
13. Dahlia Beasley – 9.22 (PR)
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| Women’s High Jump | 1:40 p.m. | Pentathlon | 13. Julia Gunnell – 1.57m
14. Dahlia Beasley – 1.57m
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| Men’s Pole Vault | 3:00 p.m. | FINAL | 10. Grant Harrison – 5.05m (PR)
Jack Marek – NH
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| Women’s Shot Put | 3:35 p.m. | Pentathlon | 2. Julia Gunnell – 12.36m (PR)
15. Dahlia Beasley – 8.45m
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| Women’s Long Jump | 4:30 p.m. | Pentathlon | 10. Dahlia Beasley – 5.51m
12. Julia Gunnell – 5.39m
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| Women’s Weight Throw | 4:45 p.m. | FINAL | 6. Kate Powers – 20.66m
10. Meagan Ewers – 19.07m 12. Gwyn Lori – 18.02m (PR)
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| Men’s Long Jump | 5:30 p.m. | FINAL | 9. Kingi McNair – 7.41m
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| Women’s High Jump | 6:15 p.m. | FINAL | 4. Kemarah Howard – 1.85m (PR) (Freshman Record) (T-No. 2 UK All-Time)
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| Women’s Pole Vault | 6:30 p.m. | FINAL | 5. Kaylee Daniel – 4.15m (PR)
7. Annie Murphy – 4.00m
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| Women’s 800m | 6:35 p.m. | Pentathlon | 3. Julia Gunnell – 2:18.17
4. Dahlia Beasley – 2:19.00
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| Men’s 800m | 6:40 p.m. | FINAL | 17. Patrick Faust – 1:50.23
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| Men’s High Jump | 6:45 p.m. | FINAL | Devin Sealey – NH
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| Men’s Weight Throw | 7:00 p.m. | FINAL | 5. Grayson Brashear – 18.61m
6. Brock Conrad – 17.87m
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| Women’s 800m | 7:10 p.m. | FINAL | 23. Jayla Atkinson – 2:11.66
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| Men’s 200m | 7:45 p.m. | FINAL | 15. Denzel Simusialela – 21.11
17. Miles Jones – 21.16 Coy Hyre – DNS
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| Women’s 200m | 8:20 p.m. | FINAL | 9. Sharmelle Holmes – 23.41
35. Stacey Onyepunuka – 24.03 38. Tressia Davis – 24.07 39. Briana St. Louis – 24.17 46. JahQueen McClellan – 24.69 Camden Bentley – DNS Kori Martin – DNS Sanaa Washington – DNS
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| Women’s DMR | 9:10 p.m. | FINAL | 6. Kentucky – 10:56.93 (No. 2 UK All-Time)
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| Women’s Heptathlon | FINAL | 10. Julia Gunnell – 3890 pts
12. Dahlia Beasley – 3534 pts |
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| Razorback Invitational: Saturday, January 31: ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME | |||
| Women’s 3000m | 11:20 a.m. | FINAL | 1. Ann Lemirisho – 9:30.62 (PR)
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| Men’s 60m Hurdles | 12:10 p.m. | PRELIMS | 15. Anthony Waterman – 7.93 (Q) |
| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 12:25 p.m. | PRELIMS | 1. Emmi Scales – 7.96 (Q) (PR) (No. 4 UK All-Time) (T-NCAA Lead)
16. Camden Bentley – 8.31 (Q) (T-PR) 19. Rukia Nusra Omulisia – 8.32 (Q) 23. Kori Martin – 8.39 (Q)
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| Men’s Mile | 12:40 p.m. | FINAL | 18. Collins Kiprop Kipngok – 3:59.71 (PR) (No. 7 UK All-Time)
20. Ed Bird – 3:59.75 31. Nicola Baiocchi – 4:07.58 38. Levi Kipkurui Bichii – 4:09.10 (PR) 42. Jackson Wyatt – 4:10.94 (PR)
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| Men’s 60m Hurdles | 1:10 p.m. | SEMIFINAL | 14. Anthony Waterman – 7.84
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| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 1:25 p.m. | SEMIFINAL | 1. Emmi Scales – 7.98 (Q)
17. Kori Martin – 8.29 18. Rukia Nusra Omulisia – 8.31 (PR) 20. Camden Bentley – 8.33
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| Women’s Mile | 1:40 p.m. | FINAL | 6. Doricah Minsari Isoe – 4:39.55 (PR) (No. 5 UK All-Time)
7. Ally Kruger – 4:41.80 (PR) (No. 8 UK All-Time) 20. Lyric Olson – 4:49.61 28. Noel Barlette – 4:55.59 40. Elly Heine – 5:10. 72
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| Men’s Shot Put | 1:45 p.m. | FINAL | 5. Grayson Brashear – 18.12m (PR)
12. Brock Conrad – 15.90m (PR)
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| Women’s 60m Hurdles | 2:20 p.m. | FINAL | 2. Emmi Scales – 8.01
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| Women’s 800m | 2:25 p.m. | INVITE | Vanice Kerubo Nyagisera – DNS
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| Men’s 60m | 2:30 p.m. | PRELIMS | 9. Denzel Simusialela – 6.69 (Q)
16. Coy Hyre – 6.78 (Q) 25. Miles Jones – 6.83 39. Zach Morgan – 7.01
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| Women’s 60m | 2:50 p.m. | PRELIMS | 16. Sharmelle Holmes – 7.39 (Q)
44. Briana St. Louis – 7.71 Emmi Scales – DNS Sanaa Washington – DNS
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| Men’s 400m | 3:10 p.m. | FINAL | 29. Tyrique Johnson – 47.72
31. Brandon Nyandoro – 47.83 TK Pahuwa – DQ
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| Women’s Shot Put | 3:30 p.m. | FINAL | 16. Gwyn Lori – 13.64m
Meagan Ewers – X
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| Women’s 400m | 3:40 p.m. | FINAL | 4. Hannah Douglas – 52.14 (PR) (No. 3 UK All-Time)
42. Alene Washington – 58.30 JahQueen McClellan – DQ A’Laji Bradley – DNS Tressia Davis – DNS Cha’iel Johnson – DNS Stacey Onyepunuka – DNS
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| Men’s Triple Jump | 3:45 p.m. | FINAL | 3. Theo Mudzengerere – 16.37m
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| Men’s 60m | 4:10 p.m. | SEMIFINAL | 13. Coy Hyre – 6.81
14. Denzel Simusialela – 7.58
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| Women’s 60m | 4:20 p.m. | SEMIFINAL | 12. Sharmelle Holmes – 7.33
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| Men’s 4x400m | 5:40 p.m. | FINAL | 9. Kentucky – 3:08.81
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| Women’s 4x400m | 6:00 p.m. | FINAL | 9. Kentucky – 3:33.79
12. Kentucky – 3:39.61 |
