Women's Track & Field takes Region Runner-Up while men take third

Sunday May 5, 2024 - 8:10 p.m. | Dylan DeVlieger

T-Bird Track & Field finished Day Two of the Region I Championship on Thursday. 

Women:

The Lady T-Birds earned Region I Runner-Up honors as they came in behind champion Central Arizona College. The Vaqueras scored 265 points, Mesa scored 244 points, & third place Pima scored 169 points. 

Deshay Turner won the 100m event (11.86) and finished second in the 200m (24.17). Katherine Lemish was the runner up in the 100m hurdles finishing in 14.35. Elizabeth Wead was runner-up in the women's 400m hurdles (1:03.40).

Taylor Jacobs came in first in the women's 800m finishing in 3:30.15. Anna Harmon smashed the competition in the women's 5000m finishing  in 19:00.82, a whole 17 seconds before the second place finisher who was her teammate Carmella Baldwin. 

Harmon also took first place in the women's 1500m event coming in with a time of 4:53.30.

Men:

The Thunderbird men finished in 3rd place as a team scoring 210 points, Central Arizona College took second with 213 points, & Pima took home the hardware scoring 258 points. 

Austin John came in third in the men's shot put (13.37m) and fifth in the discus throw (37.74m).

Jeremiah Reed came in fifth in the men's high jump (1.82m). 

The men's 4x100m relay team consisting of Tylyn Cook, Jeremiah Reed, James Hockings, & Jalen Bradford came in second, sporting a time of 40.78.

Ernest Green won the men's 1500m event finishing in 3:52.27 while teammate Jorge Trujillo finished fourth in 3:58.65.Ricardo Torres finished third in the men's 110m hurdles with a time of 14.78.Jhaylin Palmer took third in the men's 100m event finishing in 10.70.

Samuel Green took runner-up honors in the men's 800m finishing in 1:51.35 while brother Ernest Green came in third with a time of 1:53.62.

Mesa will now turn their attention to the NJCAA Outdoor National Championship held in West Monroe, LA from May 16-18.

School Records broken between both days of the meet:

• Reanna Campbell set a new record in the women's 400m event beating her own record for the second time, this time finishing in 55.87. 

• The women's 4x100m Relay team consisting of Zamirah Parker, Deshay Turner, Katherine Lemish, & Odelia Lemons set a new record as they finished in 46.21, besting the previous mark of 46.32 set back in 1983.

• The women's 4x400m Relay made up of Diane Ondobo, Reanna Campbell, Deshay Turner, & Taylor Jacobs broke the previous record of 3:45.97 as they finished in 3:44.37.

• The women's 4x800m Relay team of Taylor Jacobs, Reanna Campbell, Kendra Guest, & Anna Harmon smashed the previous record of 9:34.38 set back in 1994 finishing the event in 9:19.99.

• The men's 4x80m relay team of Samuel Green, Austin Rueff, Jorge Trujillo, & Ernest Green set a new record in the event finishing in 7:35.12, beating the previous mark of 7:38.91 set in 2023.