Livingstone College Athletics

Chance Wins Shot Put at JDL Event

The Livingstone Blue Bears indoor track & field teams traveled to Winston Salem on January 25 for the JDL Flat is Fast Invitational and left with one event winner and 17 top ten finishes.

Samaria Chance was the sole winner for the Blue Bears eclipsing the field in the women's shot put with a throw of 12.72 meters. Following closely behind her was Katrina Wade in 3rd with a mark of 11.59 meters. Sariah Dempaire-Salomon was able to break into the top 10 finishing 8th with a throw of 10.58 meters. Also, in the field events Sabrina Tobin finished 3rd overall in the triple jump with a leap of 10.58 meters.
 
Top runners for the women were Lydia Chapple finishing in 7th place overall in the 60 meters. Chapple ran 7.95 seconds in the prelims and 8.11 seconds in the finals. Leylani Rodriguez got a 6th place finish in the women's 400 and also ran a leg on the 2nd place 4 x 400 relay team, running a time of 4:20.86. Also running legs on the 1600 meter relay were, Millie McCoy, Anaya Brown and Gabrielle Glasco who also ran on the 2nd place distance medley relay team running 14:54.97.

For the men, Cameron Cunningham shined with a 3rd place finish in the 60 meter dash running 7.08 in the prelims and 7.10 in the finals. Cunningham also placed 3rd in the 200 meters with a time of 23.01. Also breaking the top 10 in the 200 was Freshman Desmond Hope running 23.79. Freshman David Bradford ran a 2nd place finishing time of 50.97 in the 400 meters to place 2nd overall.

Other top ten finishes came from Antoine Ewell in the 800 running 2:04.86, Raymond McGuire in the 60 meter hurdles running a finals time of 8.50 to finish 5th. The men's 4 x 400 relay team of Ewell, McGuire, Marquez Gray and Johnathan Smith finished 3rd overall running 3:32.49. Ewell also joined Bradford, Smith and Michael Toney on the Distance Medley Relay team to finish in 2nd place overall.
 
The Blue Bears will compete next at the Virginia Military Institute Winter Relays on beginning February 7.