Track athletes impress at Birds and Bees Invite
The Chadron State track team won multiple events and set records at the Birds and Bees Indoor Track and Field Meet, Gillette, Wyoming.
Demarcus Simpson, freshman of Lafayette, Georgia, broke the long jump record. Simpson jumped 25 feet, 3 1/4 inches, breaking the previous school record of 24-8 1/2 that Simpson set in December 2014. Simpson currently leads the NCAA Division II with the mark.
Simpson also won the 60-meter dash Saturday in 6.81 seconds.
Other winners for CSC men this weekend include Chris Cutcher, sophomore of Colorado Springs, Colorado, with a time of 8.13 in 60 high-hurdles, and junior Kyle McCarthy, of Aurora, with a career-best 52-2 1/2 shot put distance.
The women’s team continue to impress this season as well, notably Shelby Bozner, junior of Rock Springs, Wyoming, and Kelsy Wood, sophomore of Hemingford. Bozner broke the school pentathlon record of 3,747 points set by Caryn Martin in 1993. Bozner ended with a 3,759 total points, which should be enough to qualify for Nationals in March. Wood scored a career-best 3,509 points while placing second in the pentathlon, and will also qualify for the national meet.
Tiffany Thomas, junior of Kingston, Jamaica, won the 400, posting a time of 58.93. Tessa Gorsuch, sophomore of Rapid City, South Dakota, won the 60 hurdles at 8.96; Mel Herl, junior of Eaton, Colorado, won the weight throw at 59-7 1/2; and Angelique Urenda, sophomore of Pueblo, Colorado, won the high jump at 5-3. The 4×400 women’s team also won with a time of 3:59.22, and consisted of Wood, Thomas, Bozner, and Nikki Glasson, junior of Wheatland, Wyoming. Finally, Stachia Reuwsaat, sophomore of Black Hawk, South Dakota, won the women’s long jump event at 19-11 1/2.
Chadron State’s track and field teams’ next competition is the South Dakota State Invitational Meet in Brookings Friday and Saturday.
Men’s Results:
60-1, Damarcus Simpson, 6.94; 6, Ethan Proud, 7.16; 7, Barrett Browne, 7.20
200-3, Martin Moriel, 23.10
400-2, Moriel, 49.94; 4, Lane Higgins, 51.10; 9, Jazz Bozner, 51.95; 23, Brandon Schwenk, 55.02
800-5, Zerek Jones, 2:00.56; 8, Cody Davis, 2:01.83; 14, Doug Harris, 2:08.37
1 mile-3, Evans Koech, 4:35.14; 6, Levi Avila, 4:38.54; 7, Eric Yager, 4:39.08; 10, Hank Jackson, 4:41.03
3000-4, Alejandro Garcia, 9:01.99
5000-1, Koech, 15:58.39; 3, Dylan Stansbury, 16:29.16; 6, Josef Gertner, 16:35.31
60 hurdles-1, Chris Cutcher, 8.13; 2, Matthew Klein, 8.46; 4, Kolby Kester, 8.55
4×400-2, Chadron State (Bozner, Higgins, Cutcher, Moriel), 3:22.68
Distance medley-1, Chadron State (Avila, Harris, Davis, Garcia), 10:44.01
Pole vault-2, Skylar Hoopes, 4.68; 6, Brayden Knapp, 4.38
Long jump-1, Simpson, 7.70; 2, Cutcher, 6.75; 7, Browne, 6.62
Triple jump-2, Cutcher, 13.43; 4, Browne, 12.40
Shot put-1, Kyle McCarthy, 15.91; 2, David Aldridge, 14.83; 4, Tanner Rein, 13.86
Weight throw-3, McCarthy, 16.36; 6, Aldridge, 15.44; 7, Rein, 15.10
Women’s Results:
60-3, Tory Snyder, 8.06
200-2, Stachia Reuwsaat, 25.92; 3, Nikki Glasson, 26.10; 4, Snyder, 26.35; Tessa Gorsuch, 26.67
400-1, Tiffany Thomas, 58.93; 4, Shelby Guy, 1:00.64; 5, Alisha Heelan, 1:00.64; 6, Rochelle Nelson, 1:00.78
800-5, Miranda Karn, 2:31.30
3000-8, Sarah Townsend, 11:49.60
5000-4, Townsend, 20:34.75
60 hurdles-1, Gorsuch, 8.96
4×400-1, Chadron State ‘A’ (Kelsy Wood, Glasson, Thomas, Shelby Bozner), 3:59.22; 2, Chadron State ‘B’ (Reuwsaat, Guy, Heelan, Nelson), 4:02.34
High jump-1, Angelique Urenda, 1.60; 3, Kenzie May, 1.55
Pole vault-3, Urenda, 3015; 4, Josey Pehringer, 3.15
Long jump-1, Reuwsaat, 6.08
Shot put-2, Mel Herl, 13.25; 8, Ashlyn Hanson, 10.42
Weight throw-1, Herl, 18.17; 4, Hanson, 15.02; 8, Keri Ruff, 14.17
Pentathlon-1, Bozner, 3759; 2, Wood, 3509