Track competes at Georgia Tech Meet

Trojans near end of the season, travel for Penn Relays before Sun Belt Championship meet in May

Catherine Forbes & Caleb Thomas

Troy completed two days of competition at the Georgia Tech Invitational, where the Trojans picked up nine top-10 finishes and multiple personal bests in the George C. Griffin Track & Field Facility.

The quartet of Jasmine Jimenez, Catherine Forbes, Aaliyah Murphy and Shanyah Washington continued their dominance with a first-place finish in the women’s 4x100 with a time of 45.57.  Tydreke Thomas, Evan Brown, Keylan Hicks and Michael Eady ran a season’s best time of 40.09s to earn second place on the men’s side.

Thomas finished on the podium in the men’s 100m dash, finishing third with a time of 10.41s. Eady was behind him in seventh place, as he finished a tenth of a second later at 10.51s.

In the men’s 110m hurdles, sophomore Josh Kalozi finished 10th with a time of 14.29s. Freshman Riley Treadaway just missed a top-10 finish in the 3000m steeplechase, finishing 13th.

Troy continued to dominate the field, accounting for seven of the nine top 10 finishes.

Altwayne Bedward picked up a pair of top-10 finishes in the shot put with a 17.66m heave to take second. He took eighth place in the discus throw with a 48.90m mark. Darius Sylvester finished 10th in the shot put with a 15.62m throw.

Competing unattached, Javon Osbourne won the men’s discus throw with a 57.01m throw.

Tayjo Oppong took fifth with a mark of 50.82m.

Meanwhile, Joy Edward finished fourth in the women’s shot put with a 15.78m throw. Tyler McKinnell and Wesley Tilghman both took top-10 finishes in the men’s javelin throw, with throws of 56.83m and 52.89m, respectively.

Jack Anderson took home seventh place in the high jump with a two-meter leap.

The Trojans are back in action next week at Penn Relays from Thursday, Apr. 24, to Saturday, Apr. 26, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.