By: by Hunter McKay
BOONE, N.C. – The Kennesaw State men's and women's track had a solid final of action at the Mountaineer NCAA Indoor Meet inside the George Holmes Convocation Center on Saturday, January 21.
School Record Performances
Personal Best Performances
Event Wins
- Maria Oja won the 55m hurdles with her time of 7.94.
- Kidan Kidane won the women's mile run in 5:07.90.
- Sean Blassingame won the men's long jump with a leap of 7.19m (23'7.25).
- Diaja Oliver won the women's 400m with a time of 58.91.
- Reigning ASUN Field Athlete of the Week Greta Pileckaite won the shot put with a toss of 13.11m (43'0.25).
- Jonathon Womack won the 300m in 35.46m
- Tahirrat Taariqq won the women's 800m in 2:24.29.
- Sean Blassingame won the men's 200m in 22.54
- The women's 4x300 relay team of Laura-Maria Oja, Diaja Oliver, Alex Andrews and Zakirra Mckinnon won in 2:45.54.
Quotable
Director of Track and Field Andy Eggerth
On the women's team
"Our women won handily this weekend. Sometimes we schedule easier competitions to enjoy some success and build confidence. It's important though that we don't develop a false confidence. Competing at Harvard and BU in 2 weeks should demonstrate to us that 'good' is very relative, and being good is never good enough."
On the Men's Team
"We had some really great performances from many of our guys this weekend, but as a whole we have work to do. In a meet that we would have easily won in recent years, we finished second. This class of freshmen think that simply donning the Owls uniform will grant them a championship, but unless they start taking care of life off the track we'll have a rude awakening at the A-Sun championship in just 5 short weeks."
Next Up
The team will travel to Massachusetts to compete in the Harvard Crimson Elite Meet on Friday, Feb.3 and the BU Scarlet and White on Saturday, Feb.4.
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