MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Christa Landy and Zoe Ellis won individual events during North Carolina Central University’s outdoor track & field season-opening meet, the Coastal Carolina Invitational, on Friday and Saturday, March 13-14 at Doug Shaw Stadium.

Landy, a junior from Salisbury, North Carolina, ran to victory in the women’s 400-meter dash with a time of 57.29 seconds, edging Olivia Behymer of Liberty University by four-tenths of a second (57.66).

Ellis, a sophomore out of Charlotte, North Carolina, won the women’s triple jump with a leap of 11.58 meters (38’00.00”).

Other top performers for NCCU were senior Amber Brooks in the 1500m run (2^nd, 4:48.00), the women’s 4x400m relay squad of Santese Pryor, Landy, Sherae Holloway and Lovasia Thomas (2^nd, 3:57.02), the men’s 4x200m relay squad of Bryan Jasmin, Carlton Edwards, Jr., Dominick Lemonious and Kevin Vincent (3^rd, 1:29.73), Holloway in the women’s high jump (4^th, 1.60m), Lemonious in the men’s 110m hurdles (4^th, 15.23), Vincent in the men’s 400m hurdles (4^th, 54.86), the men’s 4x100m relay unit of Joshua McClam, Deonte Williams, Justin Trotman and Jonathon Williams (4^th, 42.40), the women’s 4x200m squad of Landy, Thomas, Regina Summerville and Shaina Nicely (4^th, 1:42.10), and the men’s 4x800m relay team of Deandre James, Jedrek Higgins, Orane Morais and Greg Coward (4^th, 8:07.92).

NCCU returns to the track on Friday and Saturday, March 20-21 at the Wake Forest University Invitational in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.