Meet Results

Mobile, Ala. – Dayo Akindele and Joseph Yates of the Kennesaw State men's track and field team competed in the  first half  of the decathlon and De'Von Johnson, Shakedra Robinson and Iyanna Zackary of the Kennesaw State women's track and field team competed in first half heptathlon at the South Alabama Invitational on April 14th at the Jaguar Track.

"All of us here today feel that our performances were just okay," Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Andy Eggerth said. "Not bad, but not as good as we'd like."

In his first ever decathlon, Akindele finished with a total of 3735 points after day one.  He finished fourth in the 100m dash with a time of 11.32 seconds. The freshman followed that up by winning the long jump with a jump of 7.17m (23'6.25). After a fifth place finish in the shot put with a toss of 11.36m (37'3.25), Akindele came back and won the high jump event after leaping 2.00m (6'6.75).He closed out his day finishing fourth in the 400m.
 
Yates struggled in the 100m dash. He finished seventh in the long jump with a leap of 5.92m (19'5.25). He finished sixth in the long jump, high jump leaping a personal best 1.79m (5'10-5), and shot put. Yates rounded out his day finishing 11^th in the 400m. He totaled 3056 points on day one.
 
"On the men's side, Joshua Mulder is competing unattached and is leading the decathlon at the end of day one.  Dayo in his first ever attempt is sitting in 2nd place, and his day was highlighted by a very nice PR in the high jump at 2.00m.  Joe also had a great high jump with a PR 1.79m and is sitting top 8 going into day two," Eggeth said.

In her first ever heptathlon, Johnson finished with a total of 3045 points after four events.  She finished second in the 100m hurdles with a time of 14.54 seconds. The junior followed that up by finishing seventh in the high jump with a clearance of 1.59m (5'2.5). After a fourth place finish in the shot put, Johnson came back and finished second in the 200m with a school record time of 25.38.

 After struggling in the 100m hurdles, Robinson finished third in the high jump with a leap of 1.65m (5'5). She followed that up with a second place finish in the shot put with a toss of 10.80m (35'5.25). She wrapped up her day with a ninth place finish in the 200 meters. She finished with 2836 points and is in fourth after day one.
Zachary, opened with a eighth place finish in the 100m in 15.46 seconds. After struggling in the high jump and the shot put she finished 10^th in the 200m in 27.74 seconds. She sits in 11^th place with 2414 points.

"Iyanna did open with a whopping one and a half second personal record in the 100m hurdles.  De'Von broke the heptathlon 200m record and was only .03 seconds off of the heptathlon 100m hurdle record.  At the end of day 1, De'Von is winning the heptathlon in her first ever attempt, Shakedra is sitting fourh, and Iyanna is sitting in 11th; so we're sitting good, just not where we could be.  De'Von is in position that she could break the heptathlon record tomorrow if she puts together three good events," Eggerth said.
The heptathlon and decathlon will conclude with the final three heptathlon events and the final five decathlon events along with the more meet events on Friday April 15.

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