On the second day of the NAIA Outside Observe and Discipline Championships, one of many high HBCU sprinters certified for her second occasion remaining.
Dillard’s Kevell Byrd saved her hopes of a championship double alive, qualifying for the ladies’s 100m remaining after working an 11.81 within the preliminary spherical.
Yesterday, Byrd superior to the finals of the 200m, successful her warmth in a time of 23.96 seconds.
This makes her the primary HBCU ladies’s athlete to advance to the finals of the 100m and 200m on the NAIA Outside Observe and Discipline Championships since Denai Wilson of Florida Memorial did so in 2023.
Byrd is seeking to develop into the primary NAIA ladies’s athlete to comb the 100m and 200m finals since 2022.
Elsewhere, Dillard superior to the finals of the lads’s 4×400 relay after clocking in a 3:14.78 time. That is the fourth straight 12 months Dillard will take part within the finals of the lads’s 4×400 relay.
They want to enhance on their efficiency final season, during which they’d their greatest end, coming in seventh out of 9 groups within the finals.
The sphere occasions noticed Xavier College of Louisiana’s Ovane Williams assist garner the crew 0.33 factors after tying for eighth within the excessive leap, peaking at a 1.96m leap.
Voorhees’ Jayden Burris positioned simply exterior of the highest eight within the triple leap, falling in need of awarding his crew factors towards their general whole in a ninth-place end.
HBCU NAIA Outside Observe & Discipline Championship Finalists
Kevell Byrd, Dillard: Girls’s 100m, 200m
Xavier College of Louisiana: Girls’s 4×100 Relay
Jaheene Bell, Xavier College of Louisiana: Males’s 400 hurdles
Dillard: Males’s 4×400 Relay
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