Thursday Results | Friday Live Results

Birmingham, Ala. – The Kennesaw State track and field teams competed on the first day of the Samford Invite on Thursday. Thursday's events featured the full pentathlon and the first four events of the heptathlon.
 
Men's Heptathlon (Through four events)

• Quann Shears sits in fourth place with 2696 points.
• Shears grabbed fourth in the long jump and shot put. 
• Ian Jackson is in seventh with a total of 2605 points.
• Jackson was third in the high jump clearing 1.86m (6'1.25").

 
Women's Pentathlon (Completed)

• Sophomore Kyarra Newton finished third with a personal-best 3495 points.
• Newton took third in the high jump after she cleared 1.68m (5'6.00").
• Aweng Mawien secured ninth scoring 3104 points. 
• Mawien placed fifth in the long jump and sixth in the high jump. 
• Destiny Turman (2885 points), Kywana Donahoo (2686 points) and Ansley Floyd-Jackson (2535 points) finished ninth, 11th and 15th respectively.  

 
Quotable
Assistant Coach Rachael Coelho
On the team's performance today …
"Overall, I am very happy with everyone's performance today. I feel like everyone competed with confidence and put themselves in good positions throughout the competition. Our two returning ladies started it off both setting new point total personal bests and the four freshmen put up some great marks as well for their first time competing. I am looking forward to seeing the boys finish up tomorrow with their final three events."
 
Next Up
The Owls will wrap up competition at the Samford Invite on Friday, January 22.
 
Keep up with Owls track and field teams by following KSU on Twitter at @KSUOwlNation and @KSUTrackFieldXC, on Instagram @ksuowlstrackxc  or by liking Kennesaw State Owls on Facebook.
 
 

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