WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - The King University women's track & field team finished competition at the Conference Carolinas Indoor Track & Field Conference Championship hosted at JDL Fast Track.
THE BASICS
SCORE: 22 Points (8th place out of 13)
LOCATION: JDL Fast Track; Winston-Salem, NC
HOW IT HAPPENED - Day 1
- The distance medley relay team, comprised of Ermay Vazquez Adame, Abigail Brammer, Mandy Lowery, and Morgan Whitley, who ran legs of 1200 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters, and 1600 meters, respectively. Vazquez Adame got the ladies into 3rd place running her 1200 meter leg in a time of 3:57.05, passing off to Brammer who kept King in 3rd place running her 400 meter leg in 1:04.85. Lowery took over for the 800 meter leg and ran a personal best indoor 800 time of 2:30.58 and passed off to Whitley still in 3rd place who followed suit with a massive personal best herself at the 1600 meter distance running her leg in a time of 5:12.15. Whitley got the King Tornado women up to 2nd place crossing the finish line in 12:44.65, which breaks the previous record set in 2023 by .85 seconds. Whitley and Lowery were a part of both record breaking relay teams.
- In the women's long jump, Samaya Armstead jumped a season best of 5.03m (16'6"), which was good enough for a top 15 finish.
- In the women's pole vault, Elizabeth Butler cleared the first two heights and ended up clearing a best of 2.32m (7'7.25"), which ended up being one spot away from scoring, finishing in 9th place.
HOW IT HAPPENED - Day 2
- The day started for the women in the Mile race, featuring Morgan Whitley and Ermay Vazquez-Adame. Whitley had a great battle up front with 4 other ladies, all from different conference opponents. At the 1k mark, Whitley threw in a surge to take the lead and 2 followed while the other 2 fell back. With a quarter mile to go in the race, it was a tight battle for the top 3 and Whitley ended up placing 3rd with a new PR of 5:16.66. Vazquez-Adame ran a more tactical race and ran very consistent for the first 7 laps before running the fastest final lap of any athlete in the field with a final lap of 35.93 and overall Mile time of 5:27.47. Going into the last lap, Vazquez-Adame was 8 seconds behind 5th place and she closed it to just 1 second.
- In the 800, Vazquez-Adame came back just a little over an hour after the Mile and ran an impressive time of 2:26.74, good enough for 5th place overall.
- In the 3k, for her third event of the day, Whitley ran a respectable 11:11.38.
- Going into the 4x400 relay to close the night, the King Tornado women were ranked 11th and not predicted to score as a team. However, the quartet of Abigail Brammer, Vazquez-Adame, Samaya Armstead, and Mandy Lowery ran legs of 1:06.13, 1:04.17, 1:07.30, and 1:08.73, which was good enough for an 8th place finish and 1 point toward the team total.
UP NEXT
The indoor track & field season has come to a close. The women's team now prepares for the upcoming outdoor track & field season, which starts competition on Friday, March 21st at Appalachian State University.
