Chanticleers Return to Columbia for the Carolina Challenge

Friday, January 21

Columbia, S.C.

Coastal Carolina University

Carolina Challenge

Photo by: CCU Photography

1/20/2022 2:15:00 PM | Track & Field/Cross Country

Live Results

Chanticleers will return to action this weekend in Columbia, S.C.

CONWAY, S.C. – The Coastal Carolina women's indoor track & field team will return to Columbia, S.C. for the Carolina Challenge this weekend, Jan. 21-22, at the Carolina Indoor Track & Field Complex. Action is scheduled to begin on Friday at 10 a.m. ET. Saturday's action is slated to start at noon ET.

Spectators will be allowed. Masking is required and spectators will be restricted to non-team areas. Tickets are $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for those 17 and under, while kids 2-years old and under are free. Tickets are cash only and seating is limited.

Last weekend, at the Gamecock Opener, the Chanticleers posted 15 top-five and 27 top-10 finishes overall led by Melissa Jefferson's school-record time of 7.29 and a first-place finish in the 60-meters.

For her performance, Jefferson was named the Sun Belt Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Week and enters the weekend ranked first in the Sun Belt and sixth nationally in all of NCAA Division I in the 60-meters.

Also etching her name in the CCU indoor track & field record book last weekend was freshman Alexis Glasco with her third-place time of 7.45 in the 60-meter finals, which is tied for third all-time with Chasity Johnson (2007), and her fourth-place mark of 8.48 in the 60-meter hurdles, which is the third-best time in Coastal history.

Finishing right behind Glasco in the 60-meter hurdles in fifth-place was sophomore Sydney Clemens with her personal best time of 8.58, which ranks fifth all-time on the CCU all-time performance list.

In the 200-meter dash, the duo of Jermaisha Arnold (24.44) and Mekenze Kelley (24.54) placed fifth and sixth, respectively, with the two Chants writing their names in the CCU annals with the fifth and eighth-best times all-time in CCU history.

Not to be outdone, freshman Molly Jones recorded the 10th-best time in CCU history in the 3000 meters, as she crossed the finish line in second-place overall with her personal-best time of 9:55.45, while fellow first-year Chant Kynnedy Dennis finished third in the pole vault event with a mark of 3.35 meters, which ranks seventh all-time at Coastal.

In the women's weight throw event, another true freshman stamped her name into the school's all-time performance record book, as Zayna Fray-Samuel a distance of 16.39 meters to finish fourth overall on the day and register the ninth-best mark in CCU history.

To cap off the season-opening meet, the Chanticleer team of Amelia Canetto, Arnold, Nya McGowan, and Glasco crossed the finish line in third with a time of 3:47.65 in the 4x400-meter relay, the eighth-best mark in school history for the relay event.

Live results can be found on the Track & Field/Cross Country Schedule page at www.GoCCUsports.com.

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