Indoor Track & Field Heads to the Upstate for the Bob Pollock Meet

Friday, January 28

Clemson, S.C.

Coastal Carolina University

Bob Pollock Meet

Tyler Graves and Sydney Clemmons - 2022 studio

Photo by: CCU Photography

Indoor Track & Field Heads to the Upstate for the Bob Pollock Meet

1/27/2022 11:00:00 AM | Track & Field/Cross Country

Meet Schedule Live Results ACCNX - Friday ACCNX - Saturday

Chanticleers will compete on Friday and Saturday at Clemson

CONWAY, S.C. – For the first time this season, the Coastal Carolina University indoor track & field team will send both the women's and men's teams to compete, as the two Chanticleers squads will take part this weekend, Jan. 28-29, at the 2022 Bob Pollock Meet hosted by Clemson at the Clemson Indoor Track & Field Complex.

Day one of action is scheduled to start on Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET, while Saturday's action is slated to begin at 9 a.m. ET. Both days will be air on ACC Network Extra.

Spectators will be allowed. Masks or face coverings are STRONGLY recommended indoors.

The women's team, which has seen school records fall in each of their first two meets this indoor season, enters the meet ranked as a team No. 10th overall in the Southeast Region and No. 38th nationally by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Leading the way for the women's team is two-time Sun Belt Conference Women's Track Athlete of the Week Melissa Jefferson who has set two school records already this indoor season, ranks fifth nationally in the 200-meters with her school-record time of 23.34 and 10th overall in the 60-meter dash with a school-record time of 7.29.

Sophomore Jermaisha Arnold ranks 18th overall in the 400-meters with her CCU record-setting time of 53.76 this past weekend at the Carolina Challenge in Columbia, S.C., while freshman sprinter and hurdler Alexis Glasco and her time of 8.38 in the 60-meter hurdles last time out ranks 38th nationally.

Distance-wise, a trio of freshmen in Molly Jones, Meagan Moreno, and Amilia Wise-Sweat have all posted at least one top-10 performance on the season with Wise-Sweat etching her name into the CCU top-10 list in the 800-meters and Jones in the 3000-meters.

In the field and throwing events, redshirt sophomore Kynnedy Dennis is coming off a first-place finish in the pole vault event at the Carolina Challenge with a mark of 3.45 meters, a new personal-best mark and the sixth-best height in CCU's history, while Alyssa Gregory turned in a height of 3.30 meters, which was good enough for second overall and tied for the eighth-best mark in the program's annals.

Coastal also had three Chants place in the top-15 in the shot put led by sophomore Alexis Estep and her sixth-place finish with a new personal-best mark of 13.11 meters, which also ranked 10th overall in CCU history. Freshman Lauralyn Clifford placed 10th with her best throw of 12.58 meters, while junior Nikki Boon finished 13th with a personal-best mark of 12.12 meters.

On the men's side, the Chants will send 26 student-athletes to the meet headlined by 2021 NCAA Division I USTFCCCA honorable mention All-American and Sun Belt Outdoor Track & Field long jump champion David Ejumeta, 2021 Sun Belt Outdoor Track & Field 110-meter hurdles champion Braydon Bennett, third-team All-Sun Belt performers DeVonte Harris and Ty Floyd, as well as transfers Reggie Barlow and Jeremiah Talbert.

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

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