Results


VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., Feb. 20, 2023 – The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) hosted the second day of the 2023 Indoor Track & Field Championships on Monday at the Virginia Beach Sports Center, and both the men’s and women’s defending champions strengthened their respective team leads.
 
Through six scored events, Howard leads the women’s team standings with 66 points, while Morgan State sits in second with 45 points and Norfolk State is close behind with 40 points in third. On the men’s side, defending champion Norfolk State leads second-place Howard 65-53.
 
Howard University claimed the first gold medal of the day, as Eric Brown won the men’s heptathlon with 4,507 points. He won the long jump (6.83 meters) and the high jump (1.92 meters), while also coming in second in the pole vault (3.10 meters) and third in the 60-meter hurdles (8.31).
 
Brown finished 348 points ahead of second-place Jahquan Christopher of Norfolk State.
 
The Bison also claimed the women’s pentathlon for the second straight year, with Jasmyn Hunter scoring 3,199 points to edge out Coppin State’s Kaelyn Woodrum by 62 points. Hunter won both the 60-meter hurdles (8.82) and long jump (5.19 meters) events.
 
Mikyla Rodgers of Howard won gold in the women’s weight throw with a distance of 18.99 meters (62 feet, 3 inches).
 
North Carolina Central freshman Lamont Victoria found himself in a three-way battle with Coppin State’s James Bell and Norfolk State’s Joshua Sutton for the men’s long jump title. All three cleared the bar at 2.05 meters (6 feet, 8.75 inches), but Victoria did so without fouling to give him the gold medal.
 
Morgan State’s Tia Jackson won her second gold medal in as many days on Monday, taking the women’s high jump at 1.68 meters (5 feet, 6 inches).
 
Maryland Eastern Shore’s James Perkins took the men’s weight throw at 17.55 meters (57 feet, 7 inches).
 
The Norfolk State women (Kara Grant, Armani Harris, Tynniesia Wilson and Mercyline Kimaiyo) closed out the day by winning gold in the distance medley relay (DMR), clocking in at 12:02.20, while the Spartan men (Brian Rotich, Dazon Harrison, Regan Kimtai and Gidion Sigei) won their DMR after running a combined 10:12.53.
 
In Monday’s preliminaries, Darci Khan of Howard University posted the fastest qualifying time in both the 60-meter hurdles (8.38) and 60-meter dash (7.48); in all, the Bison – defending women’s team champion – placed four runners in the 60-meter dash final and two in the hurdles final.
 
Howard also has four finalists in the men’s 60-meter hurdles after Jermaine Byrd led the way in the prelims with a 7.91. Zachary Hawkins was second-fastest with a 7.97, while Kameron Davis (8.11) and Darian Clyburn (8.13) also qualified for the final.
 
There are five Bison in the finals of the women’s 400 meters; All-American Jessica Wright posted the fastest preliminary time with a 53.26, which would currently tie for the 33^rd-fastest mark in the nation, while Aniya Woodruff (56.67), Zoe Turner (56.73), Kiya Lawson (56.76) and Monika Williams (57.05) posting the fifth- through eighth-fastest times.
 
In the men’s 400 meters, Janoi Brown of Maryland Eastern Shore posted a 48.33 to lead all qualifiers.
 
South Carolina State’s Kristopher Brown and Coppin State’s Noxroy Wright both ran a 6.80 in the men’s 60 meters, the fastest time among the eight qualifiers, while defending champion Kai Cole of Norfolk State was close behind with a 6.81.
 
Wednesday’s action begins at 9:30 a.m. with the women’s pole vault. Running events get going at 12:30 p.m., with the final of the women’s mile. All of Wednesday’s action will be streamed live on the MEAC Digital Network on YouTube.
 
For more information, visit the Championship Central page.
 
 
About the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is in its 52^nd year of intercollegiate competition with the 2022-23 academic school year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up of eight outstanding historically black institutions across the Atlantic coastline: Coppin State University, Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State University.