Posted: Dec 08, 2024

Men's Indoor Track & Field Finishes 8th at VA Holiday Open/ Takes 1st in Relay

WINCHESTER, Va. - The Columbia College men's indoor track and field team opened their season on Sunday competing in the D3 Shenandoah Univ. Holiday Open held in northern Virginia. The Koalas came away with a 8th place finish and just a point shy of coming in a three-way tie for 6th out of 11 teams in the meet. McDaniel College (MD) won the meet followed by Roanoke (VA), Dickinson (PA), Washington & Lee (VA) and Randolph College (VA) to round out the top five teams.

The Koala's 4x400 meter relay team brought home a title to lead CC as the team of junior Caleb Bailey, sophomore Kimarje White, senior Xavier Linen, and sophomore Willy Calcano took first place in a time of 3:27.6 to outdistance runner-up Dickinson by 0.7 seconds. Columbia's B team also had a good finish coming in a tie for 7th out of 19 teams with a time of 3:37. That all-freshman team consisted of Dominick Young, Jayden Young, Ryan Flowers, and Tristen Patterson.

Themen also ran a terrific 200 meter dash as well as Linen led the way with his 3rd place finish while Bradley Tilby also placed in the top 10 coming in 7th. Columbia put five sprinters in the top 13 and 8 in the top 30 of the 47-man field. Tilby also ran well in the 60 meter dash placing 4th in qualifying with a time just over 7 seconds before finishing 6th in the finals.

Bailey also ran well in the 400 meters placing 5^th in 52 seconds.

In the field events, the Koalas were led by Tyler Dixon coming in 5^th in the Triple Jump at 12.3 meters while Daylon McDonald was runner-up in the Weight Throw at 13.5 meters. Geo Tobias also had a quality shot put placing 6^th at a nearly 12 meter throw.

The indoor men are next competing January 12 at another Shenandoah Invitational in Virginia.

60m:

Bradley Tilby - 7.1 sec (6th in finals, 4th in Qual. (7.03)), Tristen Patterson- 7.16 (11th), Willy Calcano- 7.18 (12th), William Smith and Dominick Young- 7.2 sec (T-15th), White - 7.27 (21st), Dixon - 7.7 (47th)

200m:

Xavier Linen- 22.84 sec (3rd/47), Bradley Tilby- 23.0 (7th), Willy Calcano- 23.17 (11th), Kimarje White- 23.34 (12th), Tristen Patterson- 23.5 (13th), Ashton Pouncie- 24.0 (18th), Jaden Young - 24.16 (21st), William Smith- 24.8 (30th), Albert Shaw- 25.5 (39th).

400m:

Caleb Bailey- 52.1 sec (5th/34), Dominick Young - 53.7 (9th), Ashton Pouncie- 53.8 (T-10th), Ryan Flowers- 53.8 (T-10th), and Albert Shaw- 57.1 (26th).

Long Jump:

Jayden Young- 5.99m (8th/21), Tyler Dixon - 5.77m (10th), Albert Shaw - 5.66m (16th).

Triple Jump:

Tyler Dixon - 12.35m (5th/10)

Weight Throw:

Daylon McDonald- 13.5m (2nd/25), Gavin Rice- 13.4m (3rd), Jonathan Davis- 11.7m (6th), Guruveer Jhaj - 9.76m (17th), Jarek Asencio- 9.2 (19th), Nebi Young - 8.96m (20th).

Shot Put:

Geo Tobias- 11.95m (6th/28), Nebi Young- 10.86m (11th), Gavin Rice- 10.6m (13th), Jonathan Davis- 10.4m (17th), Guruveer Jhaj- 8.63m (24th), Jayden Young- 7.49m (26th).

Men's 4x4m A- Team: Caleb, Kimarje, Xavier, and Willy. 3:27.65 sec