BOWLING GREEN, KY – The Tigers battled through high winds and heavy downpours over the weekend and came away with top marks and times.
Kilan Macklin made a big statement for the rest of the NAIA on Friday. He hit the #3 mark in the country in the long jump with a (+0.1 wind). His mark of 7.40m won the meet, a new school record by .21m, and earned an NAIA A Standard. Macklin takes down previous record holder Garland Webb who had the record since 2019 of 7.19m.
Corey Smith punched his ticket to the national championship in the triple jump. Smith hit a mark of 14.79m on his fifth jump of the day and is now ranked top five in the country.
Maikyah Stowe was the second athlete of the meet to earn a school record. Stowe came close to dipping under the 49-second mark in the 400m with his 2nd-place finish of 49.20. The previous school record has stood since 2011 by Xavier Walker who hit a time of 49.22.
Stowe had a busy weekend across the sprints. He led a group in the 200m with his 5th-place finish of 22.37.
Darionta Bell was 7th in 22.46,
Miah Chatmond placed 8th in 22.51,
Campbell Rawlings was 9th overall in 22.52, and Moore was 10th in 22.61. Bell and Rawlings qualified for the 100m finals on day two. Bell earned the bronze medal in 11.20, Rawlings placed 4th in 11.24, and Moore was 7th in 11.45.
Outside of Stowe, Campbellsville had five other athletes earn top-10. Chatmond was over a second behind in 50.48,
Zachary Phelps placed 6th in 51.11,
Joshua Morris was 8th in 51.84, and
Noah Rogers placed 9th in 51.98.
In the hurdles,
Gregory Carr led the way for Campbellsville in both the 110m and 400m hurdles. Carr was runner-up in the 110 hurdles with a time of 15.81.
Ishan Cooper was 4th in 16.36, while
Zahnte' Brown earned 7th overall in 19.34. In the 400m hurdles, Carr fell one spot back to the bronze medal position in a 59.02.
William Riley was 6th in 1:03.98, Cooper finished less than two seconds behind in 7th at 1:05.08, and Brown earned a top-10 finish in 1:11.50.
On the relay side of the track, the 4x100m relay earned the bronze medal on Saturday. Bell, Moore,
Joshua Morris, and Stowe ran a time of 42.32. In the 4x400m relay, Stowe, Chatmond, Morris, and Phelps were two seconds behind the school record in 3:22.99 placing second.
Behind the lead of Macklin and Smith, the Tigers were hitting their marks on the runway.
CamRon Hamby was 3rd in the long jump in 6.95m, and
Matthew Mays finished 4th in 6.93m. Smith earned scoring points in the event with his 6th place jump of 6.34m. Hamby and Mays finished behind Smith in the triple jump. Hamby was 2nd in 13.86, and Mays was 3rd in 13.29m.
Campbellsville now looks towards the Patriot Relays at the University of the Cumberlands on April 7th and 8th.
