COLUMBIA, Mo. – Six top-five finishes and one the top performances in school history in the hurdles highlighted the Drake University track & field team's two days at the Tom Botts Invitational in Columbia, Mo.
 
The women's 400-meter hurdles saw Victoria Coombe (Centennial, Colo.) continue her strong junior season by winning the event in 1:00.80, the sixth-fastest time in school history and a personal best for Coombe. She also ran the anchor leg of the Bulldogs' 4x400-meter relay that finished first in 3:51.36.
 
Mary Young (Urbandale, Iowa) also recorded one of the top time in school history as her second-place finish of 24.57 in the 200 meters was the fifth-fastest ever run by a Bulldog. Earlier in the afternoon, she won the 100-meter hurdles in 14.08.
 
Three Bulldogs finished in the top five of the men's 400-meter hurdles with Hudson Priebe (Chamberlain, S.D.) winning in 51.92, just shy of his personal best in the event. Malik Metivier (Toronto, Ontario) did notch a personal best in the race, finishing third in 52.08 followed by Dominic Lombardi (Columbus, Ohio) in fourth. Lombardi also finished fourth in the 110-meter hurdles.
 
Field events saw Taryn Rolle (Nassau, The Bahamas) build off last weekend's school record in the triple jump by taking third in the event with a jump of 39-9.75. She was in third throughout the competition but tacked on more than a foot in her last jump to mark her second-straight week of jump at least 12 meters.
 
On the track, the men's team also had another strong day in the sprints with three Bulldogs battling windy conditions to finish in the top 10 of the 100 meters. Kundai Maguranyanga (Glen Zorah, Zimbabwe) finishing fourth in 10.80 followed by Aaron Chier (Belgium, Wis.) and Caulin Graves (Overland Park, Kan.). Xavier Lechleitner (Edgar, Wis.) nearly clocked a personal best in the 800 meters in 1:53.62 to finish third.
 
The Bulldogs return home to the Blue Oval next week as they host the 109^th edition of the Drake Relays presented by Hy-Vee April 25-28.
 
 
2018 Tom Botts Invitational
April 20-21 – Columbia, Mo.
 
Drake Individual Men's Results
100 Meters
4. Kundai Maguranyanga, 10.80
6. Aaron Chier, 10.83
7. Caulin Graves, 10.87
 
200 Meters
2. Caulin Graves, 21.47
19. Blair Barrow, 23.11
20. Forest Moses, 23.14
 
400 Meters
8. Blair Barrow, 52.05
 
800 Meters
3. Xavier Lechleitner, 1:53.62
12. Cory Erickson, 1:56.01
21. Alec Bognar, 2:01.95
25. Michael Cooper, 2:05.62
26. John Freeman, 2:08.39
 
1,500 Meters
7. Matt Cozine, 3:58.65
15. Rylee Miller, 4:11.10
17. Joe Romain, 4:14.74
19. Erik Olson, 5:11.99
 
5,000 Meters
7. Cole Friedman, 15:38.42
 
110-Meter Hurdles
4. Dominic Lombardi, 15.64
 
400-Meter Hurdles
1. Hudson Priebe, 51.92
3. Malik Metivier, 52.08
4. Dominic Lombardi, 54.95
 
3,000-Meter Steeplechase
2. Josh Yeager, 9:42.86
 
4x100-Meter Relay
2. Chier, Graves, Maguranyanga, Metivier, 40.85
4x400-Meter Relay
5. Lechleitner, Priebe, Lombardi, Erickson, 3:30.19
 
Long Jump
9. Erik Olson, 19-10.25 (6.05m)
 
Javelin
6. Jake Taylor, 161-10 (49.32m)
8. Max Harlan, 159-5 (48.61m)
 
 
Drake Women's Individual Results
100 Meters
7. Sophia Jackson, 12.59
 
200 Meters
2. Mary Young, 24.57
11. Rai Ahmed-Green, 24.99
20. Sophia Jackson, 25.92
24. Mariah Crawford, 24.62
 
400 Meters
3. Rai Ahmed-Green, 56.91
6. Mariah Crawford, 59.70
 
800 Meters
13. Kayla Giuliano, 2:18.87
14. Meghan Kearney, 2:19.81
34. Kenzie Mente, 2:32.09
35. Bryce Lang, 2:33.42
 
1,500 Meters
12. Bailee Cofer, 4:43.00
17. Olivia Rogers, 4:49.46
16. Millie Bretl, 4:49.33
18. Morgan Garcia, 4:49.48
21. Elizabeth Aho, 4:54.96
22. Rachel Selva, 4:54.31
 
5,000 Meters
23. Mykaela Cole, 18:44.82
 
100-Meter Hurdles
1. Mary Young, 14.08
 
400-Meter Hurdles
1. Victoria Coombe, 1:00.80
 
4x400-Meter Relay
1. Ahmed-Green, Young, Giuliano, Coombe, 3:51.36
 
Pole Vault
T3. Christina LeMunyon, 10-10.25 (3.31m)
 
Long Jump
9. Taryn Rolle, 17-9.75 (5.43m)
 
Triple Jump
3. Taryn Rolle, 39-9.75 (12.13m)