LYNCHBURG, Va. – The future of the Coastal Carolina women's indoor track & field program looks bright, as the Chants' youth performed well on Friday with a total of nine different underclassmen leading the way for the women in Teal, Bronze, and Black on day one of the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational hosted by Liberty.
 
In the women's 60-meter prelims, the Chants had two runners qualify for the finals in Mariah McCord (7.73) and Zahria Jones (7.77), as McCord placed third in the prelims with her personal best time, while Jones was tied for sixth.
 
The duo finished 13th and 14th in the 60-meter semifinals, as McCord matched her prelims time of 7.73 to finish just in front of Jones and her time of 7.75.
 
The Coastal tandem of Shani'a Bellamy and Sydney Clemens raced their way into the finals of the 60-meter hurdles, as Bellamy recorded a personal-best time of 8.63 in the semifinals to place fourth. Her time was the eighth-best time in CCU history and put her one spot in front of Clemens who placed fifth with a time of 8.65 to move on to the finals on Saturday.
 
In the 400-meter finals, CCU had not one but two top-10 performances, as freshman Mekenze Kelley finished in eighth with her time of 56.69, just outside of CCU's top-10, while sophomore Amaryah White placed 10th with her time of 57.07.
 
Coastal picked up another top-15 finish in the women's pole vault event, as redshirt sophomore Kynnedy Dennis set a new personal-best height of 3.70 meters to finish in a log jam at 14th overall. Her career-high mark is the third-best on CCU's indoor all-time performance list.
 
Saturday's slate of events will get started with a trio of field events at 10:30 a.m. ET.
 
Live results can be found on the Track & Field/Cross Country Schedule page at www.GoCCUsports.com.
 
Coastal's Top-15 Performances on Day 1 of the Darius Dixon Invitational
 
Women's 60-meter dash (prelims)
3. Mariah McCord – 7.73
6. Zahria Jones – 7.77
11. Sydney Clemens – 7.89
12. Camryn Lorick – 7.89
 
Women's 60-meter dash (semifinals)
13. Mariah McCord – 7.73
14. Zahria Jones – 7.75
 
Women's 60-meter hurdles (semifinals)
4. Shani'a Bellamy – 8.63
5. Sydney Clemens – 8.65
 
Women's 400-meters (finals)
8. Mekenze Kelley – 56.69
10. Amaryah White – 57.07
 
Women's Pole Vault (finals)
14. Kynnedy Dennis – 3.70m
 
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