Track and Field Finishes Knights Invite

Friday, March 22

Orlando, FL

Army West Point

UCF Black and Gold Invitational

Track and Field Finishes Knights Invite

March 23, 2024 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

ORLANDO – The Army West Point track and field team finished the Knights Invite at UCF this afternoon.

FULL RESULTS

The day was highlighted by the men's 4x100m running a 40.95 to win their head by nearly two full seconds for good third overall in the meet. The women's side also impressed, coming in fifth overall with a time of 46.43.

Jake Bowersock came in second place in the men's discus with a toss of 54.16m. Four Black Knights placed in the top 10 of the women's discus, Sophia Dystra, Kayley Ragazzini, Karly Parcell, and Olivia placed sixth through ninth.

Mitchell Burr was electric in the 800m coming in third with a time of 1:48.57. Joshua Duncan came in sixth in the 100m dash at 10.68. The men's 4x400m squad placed sixth at 3:17.62.

The Black Knights will stay in the Sunshine State for another competition, heading to Gainesville for the Florida Relays.

HEAR FROM COACH SMITH

Last week was an opening for our entire team, but it was mostly our developers. Some of our some of our top level people competed last week, but for the majority of people that are going to be competing at the conference level in the Star Meet level, this was our opening weekend. And there's a lot of positives that came from this weekend. I think the weather really helps come down here for a reason. We pay a lot of money to travel this weekend, and it pays off when the weather is good. So not only was it not raining, all week, we're thinking there's gonna be rain, but the weather helps a lot with the speed power mix. And I think if you look at how we performed was really, really pretty good looks like we would expect those people to perform well when it's running a stroll exceeded some of our expectations. And I don't have all the stats in my head right now. But I know that like our for both our egos are four by one still nice job, but now really will get better. Do that event more often we'll get better. I like our order and I like both. And then even in the sprints. I like what I saw from some of our younger people. On the guy side, Josh Duncan, the way he ran the 100. Horizontal jumps or triple jump, guys, they did a nice job. And they took advantage of the warm weather and the tail winds. And then Emma Taylor, of course, she ran really well on the 100. It helps to get these kids in this environment where you're competing against good people and competition. We didn't really run all of our distance runners, but the things that you saw last night, some of those middle distance people were also really good. Cheney, and that's an opener for her time section. So she looks good. There's no surprise there. It's great when your freshmen are the ones that are performing at a high level, when they're consistent, that's even better. So what she and Joanna did yesterday in the 1500m was really strong. And both lifetime bests. Throwers were really good down here. I didn't see the marks that were world beating marks for them. Like we didn't get a lot of PRs. But we did a really good competitive marks for the time of year. We're gonna be competing until June, certainly into May. So what you do in March should just be a stepping stone that leads into the rest of the outdoor season. So when you have people that are opening up with performances that are at or near their best to feel good about that. I do feel good about our depth. I feel good about the way the majority of our team performed here today and yesterday.