Quartet of Top Five Performances Highlight Akron's Friday Efforts

Friday, April 18

Azusa, Calif.

All Day

University of Akron

Bryan Clay Invitational

Quartet of Top Five Performances Highlight Akron's Friday Efforts

April 18 | Track & Field

BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL: MEET INFORMATION | LIVE STATS
PACIFIC COAST INVITATIONAL: MEET INFORMATION | LIVE STATS

AZUSA, Calif. – A quartet of top five performances headlined the efforts of the Akron track and field team at a pair of meets on Friday (April 18).

HOW IT HAPPENED:
• Redshirt senior Brook Boes (Tiffin, Ohio) recorded a career-best mark of 185-1 (56.42m) in the women's hammer to place third.
• Freshman Rukia Omulisia (Nairobi, Kenya) registered a career-best time of 13.81 to place third in the women's 100-meter hurdles.
• Redshirt junior Owen Wendl (Medina, Ohio) posted a career-best throw of 58-1 (17.70m) to finish fifth in the men's shot put with the fifth-best mark in outdoor program history.
• The men's 4x400 relay team of sophomores Braylyn Farrington (Alabaster, Ala.), AJ Jordan (Columbus, Ohio) and Andrew Styles (Freeport, Bahamas) and junior Tysean Baronette (Middletown, Del.) finished fifth in a time of 3:11.95.

UP NEXT:
Akron is set to compete the Beach Invitational in Long Beach, Calif., Mt. Sac Relays on Walnut, Calif., Tiffin Carnival in Tiffin, Ohio, and Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday (April 19).

VIRGINIA CHALLENGE
MEN'S FRIDAY RESULTS:
Hammer: Christopher Vance (5th-198-11/60.64m), Lane Graham (10th-187-7/57.19m); Shot Put: Owen Wendl (5th-58-1/17.70m*), Keegan Digby (10th-57-0.75/17.39m), Josiah Cox (13th-55-3/16.84m), Christopher Vance (20th-52-8.75/16.07m)

WOMEN'S FRIDAY RESULTS:
Hammer: Brooke Boes (3rd-185-1/56.42m*), Gabrielle Griffiths (6th-181-8/55.38m), Victoria Kuol (15th-169-7/51.68m); Shot Put: Brook Boes (F)

PACIFIC COAST INVITATIONAL
MEN'S THURSDAY RESULTS:
4x100 Relay: Kemari Robinson, AJ Jordan, Tysean Baronette, Rennie Gittens, Jr. (2nd-40.53); 400 Meters: Andrew Styles (3rd-48.03); 100 Meters: Rennie Gittens, Jr. (30th-10.67w), Kemari Robinson (48th-10.78); 200 Meters: AJ Jordan (7th-21.16w), Tysean Baronette (41st-21.98), Braylyn Farrington (46th-22.06*); Pole Vault: Hunter Garretson (2nd-17-11.75/5.48m)

WOMEN'S THURSDAY RESULTS:
4x100 Relay: Ayanna Stafford, Joy Nwokike, Rukia Omulisia, Victory George (4th-46.23); 100-Meter Hurdles: Rukia Omulisia (10th-13.78*); 100 Meters: Ayanna Stafford (13th-11.94*); 200 Meters: Eve Clark (13th-24.32*), Vanessa Horn (35th-24.97); Pole Vault: Cassidy Allen (6th-12-11/3.94m)

BRYAN CLAY INVITATIONAL
MEN'S FRIDAY RESULTS:
100 Meters: AJ Jordan (13th-10.70), Rennie Gittens, Jr. (21st-10.81), Kemari Robinson (39th-11.00), Tysean Baronette (43rd-11.04); 4x400 Relay: T (5th-3:11.95)

WOMEN'S FRIDAY RESULTS:
100 Meters: Ayanna Stafford (38th-12.13); 100-Meter Hurdles: Rukia Omulisia (3rd-13.81*)

MEN'S THURSDAY RESULTS:
5,000 Meters: Titus Kirui (8th-14:12.75*)

WOMEN'S THURSDAY RESULTS:
5,000 Meters (A1): Megan Hipple (11th-16:42.42*)

MEN'S WEDNESDAY RESULTS:
3,000-Meter Steeplechase: Bismack Kipchirchir (4th-8:27.51); 10,000 Meters: Moses Lekokei (1st-29:04.90)

WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY RESULTS:
10,000 Meters: Danielle Honaker (31st-36:07.84); 3,000-Meter Steeplechase: Grace Henderson (92nd-11:22.87)

* denotes career-best mark | w denotes wind-aided mark