Track and Field Competes at RSC Championship

MARIETTA Oh. – The Brescia University men's and women's track and field team competed at the River States Conference Indoor Championship this past weekend. The women finished 8^th out of the 11 teams while the men finished 10^th of 10 teams.

Alliyah Thomas got active this weekend as she set two school records in the 55-meter hurdles on both days. She placed 5^th in the preliminaries for the hurdles with a time of 8.99 and placed 2^nd in the finals with a time of 9.08. Abigail Walker ran alongside Thomas as she finished 14^th overall. The duo of Thomas and Faith Mpassy followed 5^th and 6^th in the women's long jump for the Bearcats with marks of 5.03m and 4.99m. Mpassy also cross the finish line in the women's 800m in 7^th with a time of 2:32.23. Hannah Grosshans finished 13^th in the women's weight throw prelims with a distance of 9.28m then finished 19^th in the finals with a throw of 8.39m. Kaitlyn Orange, the women's Champion of Character, finished 6^th in the pole vault in her second year with the team. Mallory Wilson rounded out the women's side finishing 16^th in the women's one mile run.

On the men's side of the track, the 4000m distance team in Daniel Aikas, Xavi Del Monte, Brody Kurz, and Blake Mullins finished in 7^th for BU. Kurz also competed in the one mile run where he finished 20^th with a time of 5:48 flat. Aikas gave the Bearcats two more points after finishing 7^th in the 1000m run as Del Monte finished 19^th overall.

The Bearcats finish the indoor season at the national qualifiers as the outdoor season quickly approaches.