Indoor Track and Field Open Season in Tennessee
Oak Ridge, TN - The 2023-24 Indoor Track and Field season got underway on Tuesday this week with the Ben Martin First Chance meet, which had many of the top teams in the AAC attending.
The Eagles had much success at the meet and had 21 athletes qualify already for the conference championships. Reinhardt appears to have a team that can challenge the usual top AAC performers like Montreat and Milligan who are both traditionally strong in both Indoor and Outdoor.
Kenadi Aker led the way on the women's side with three school records in her first meet as a collegiate athlete. Hayden Reyes, Dontavious Barker, Andrew Paolozzi, and Billy Waters are just a few names of Reinhardt athletes who did very well on the men's side.
Here are some of the top performers from the meet and there is a link below with all the event results.
- Kenadi Aker: 60m- 8.10s (School Record, 1st overall), 200m- 27.10s (School Record, 1st overall), Long Jump- 4.91m (School Record, 2nd overall)
- Samantha Cramer: High Jump- 1.45m (3rd place overall)
- Bethanee Wiggins: 60m-8.68s, Long Jump- 4.42m
- Abigail Cruz: Women's Shot Put 9.42m (3rd place overall)
- Dontavious Barker: 60m- 7.02s (Placed 1st overall)
- Hayden Reyes: 60m- 7.06s, 200m- 22.46s (Placed 3rd overall in 60m, 1st overall in the 200m)
- Salvador Castillo: 5k- 15:16 (School Record)
- Christopher Smith: 5k- 17:33 (Personal Record, 11th place overall)
- Tom Vincent: 5k- 16:22.10 (25th overall)
- Quan Dorsey: 60mH- 8.56s (School Record, 2nd overall), High Jump- 1.80m (1st overall)
- Ryane Martin Jr.: Long Jump- 6.65m (1st overall in long jump)
- Corey Tuck: Triple Jump 12.23m (1st overall)
- Kamari Ridge: Triple Jump 11.91m (2nd overall)
- Andrew Paolozzi: Men's Shot Put 1st overall 15.95
- Billy Waters: Weight Throw-15.95m (1st overall)