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Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships
Women’s DMR Gold Highlights Day 1 of Herd’s SBC Indoor Championships
2/24/2025 9:35:00 PM | Track and Field
Herd women score 22 points on opening day; men tally 13 points
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- There just wasn't any doubt when Kylee Mastin took the baton for the anchor leg.
Marshall's graduate senior finished off a school-record and Sun Belt Conference championship-breaking Distance Medley Relay time of 11:29.22. Her, Brynn McKeever, McKenna Woodruff, and Hannah Wyler became Marshall's first-ever champions in the event.
The 2025 Women's DMR Champions, the 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐝!#WeAreMarshall pic.twitter.com/rld7nfH7w5
— Marshall TF/XC (@HerdTFXC) February 25, 2025
The DMR win capped a day with four Herd podium finishes to start the Indoor SBC Championships.
The Herd's Addison Painter scored a second-place finish in Men's Long Jump. The graduate transfer who set new distances for the men's program twice in the regular season jumped 7.38 meters to finish second.
Junior Lara Check and graduate senior Rebecca Merritt each finished third with personal-best marks in the Pentathlon and Women's Weight Throw respectively. Check scored 3,768 points across five events, including a win in the Long Jump. Merritt threw 19.58 meters in her final-career Weight Throw event.
After day one, the Marshall women sit in fourth, having scored 22 points across the three events. Mastin, Woodruff, Wyler, and freshman Destiny Berryman also qualified individually for the finals in distance events set for Tuesday.
The Herd men scored 13 points on the opening day with Painter's finish and a fourth-place DMR finish. The team qualified three in Joey Bloebaum, Kazuma Bowring, and Isaiah Harper for Tuesday's finals.
Marshall Full Results - For Full Results, view HERE,
Pentathlon Finals
Lara Check: (3rd-3768 points - 6 pts.) 60m Hurdles (4th-8.97), High Jump (4th-1.65m) Shot Put (6th-10.97m), Long Jump (1st-5.84m), 800m (5th-2:32.41)
Field Events
Weight Throw: Men's: Anthony Dunbar (15.93m), Trevor Hayes (15.84m), Gradian Graham (15.32m) Women's: Rebecca Merritt (3rd-19.58m - 6 Pts.), Markayla Moore (17.47m), Lillian Ross (15.10m), Chloe Cahill (13.79m)
Long Jump: Men's: Addison Painter (2nd-7.38m - 8 pts.), Grant Swider (6.86m), Cole Miller (6.51m) Women's: Lara Check (5.55m), Mara Pearson (5.32m), Haleigh Crum (5.28m), Alayezia Williams (5.06m)
Track Events
Mile Prelims: Men's: Justin Lipscomb (4:24.51) Women's: Hannah Wyler (4:52.59 QUALIFIED),Kylee Mastin (4:56.53 QUALIFIED), Destiny Berryman (4:59.05 qualified), Taylor Spencer (5:08.92)
60m Prelims: Men's: Micah Hinton (6.88), Jonathan Owusu (6.94), Samari McCord (6.97) Women's: Bay'Andria Hodges (7.65), Emma Henry (7.67), Kennedy Pedro (7.72), Haleigh Crum (7.78)
60m Hurdles Prelims: Men's: Tyrell Cloud (8.42), Jakai Hayes (8.47), Peter Oliveira (8.55) Women's: Alayezia Williams (8.71), Azure Travis (8.88), Myah Boze (9.03)
400m Prelims: Men's: Isaiah Harper (48.95 qualified), Isaiah Valentine (49.65), Micah Coates (49.79), Chris Swint (50.29), Wyatt Milhoan (51.18) Women's: Nyah Harrison (56.73), Myah Boze (57.87), Brynn McKeever (58.00), Azure Travis (58.76)
800m Prelims: Men's: Kazuma Bowring (1:53.40 QUALIFIED), Women's: McKenna Woodruff (2:13.13 qualified), Erykah Christopher (2:24.12)
5K Finals: Men's:Brady Dawkins (15:32.52), Garrett Ferguson (15:40.65) Women's: Jalynn Browning (18:06.55), Asha Bora (18:17.54)
200m Prelims: Men's: Joey Bloebaum (21.59 qualified), Samari McCord (21.99), Jonathan Owusu (22.02), Chris Swint (22.04), Isaiah Valentine (22.05) Women's: Dezire Gee (24.11), Bay'Andria Hodges (24.77), Haleigh Crum (25.08), Emma Henry (25.12), Kennedy Pedro (25.40)
DMR Relay Finals: Men's: (4th - Team of Ethan Bowens, Kazuma Bowring, Luke Goode, Justin Lipscomb 10:13.43 - 5 pts.) Women's: (1st - Team of Kylee Mastin, Brynn McKeever, McKenna Woodruff, Hannah Wyler 11:29.22 - 10 pts.)
UP NEXT
Day two begins at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday with field events and 2:30 p.m. on the track.
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