Army West Point Athletics
Army West Point
Patriot League Indoor Championships
Men’s Track and Field Finish Second in Patriot League Indoor Championships
March 02, 2025 | Men's Track and Field
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Army West Point Men's Track and Field earned a second-place finish in the Patriot League Indoor Championships.
Army finished second place with 153 points, with Navy ultimately claiming the top team finish either 223 points.
The Black Knights saw three first-place finishes on the men's side all coming in the field events.
Brian McSweeney earned the first gold medal for the Black Knights in the pole vault. McSweeney claimed the win with a 5.10m (16' 8¾") final mark, earning his first indoor Patriot League title in his career.
The other two gold medal finishes came from Robby Manse, sweeping for the top spot in both of the throwing events. Manse claimed gold in the weight throw with a 19.85m (65' 1½" feet) mark. Manse finished first in the shot put with a 17.89m (58' 8 ½"), a new personal best.
With the two top finishes in the events, Manse also earned the Patriot League Men's Field Athlete of the Meet after wins in the shot put and weight throw.
The Black Knights completely dominated the weight throw, not only earning the top finish but also five of the top six finishes.
Alongside Manse's first-place finish, Jonathan Segujja earned second with an 18.63m (61' 1½') mark. Collin Torres, Jake Nwosu and CJ Bowens finish fourth, fifth and sixth in the event, claiming 30 points from the event.
Carlos Posey and Javan Guevara-Cragwell earned second and third in the long jump.
Posey earned second with a 7.46m (24' 5¾") jump, which now sits as the third-highest mark in Army's program history. Javan Guevara-Cragwell earned third with a 7.30 (23' 11½"). Caleb Smith and Ethan Vess also finished seventh and eighth, giving the men a 17-point haul in the event.
In the 4x800m relay, the men earned a second-place finish. Jack Musgrave, Ammon Smith, Brady Smith and Kasen Jeitz finished with a 7:40.41 time.
CJ Posey scored in the high jump, finishing fifth with a 2.07m (6' 9½") final mark. Brett Wingard delivered a strong performance in the triple jump with a 15.22m (49' 11.25") mark, finishing second in the event. The mark also moved to fourth all-time in Army's program history.
Canyon Hall fought hard in the heptathlon, going on to finish fourth in the event overall. During the heptathlon, Hall set new personal bests in the 60m dash and the 1000m run.
Kasen Jeitz also had a strong weekend, finishing second in the 800m and anchoring the 4x400m relay in another runner-up finish in a relay event. Jaxon Hammond placed third in the 60m, while Chad Dohl scored in both the 60m and 200m.
Hear From Coach Smith:
Day One:
Our men were great today. Coming into the meet I had us scoring around 50 points on the first day and we ended up with 74. Some of that can be attributed to my underestimation of what we could do and maybe some of it is our guys rising to the occasion in a big way. Either way, we scored well today. Our field event guys carried us today. The most impressive event was the men's weight throw. I expected Robby Manse ('25) to win the event but really didn't expect to have all five guys that we entered finish in the top six. It was huge for us. Robby has been a dominant force for us the entire year and today was more of the same. He set the tone early in the event with a 19-meter throw and then kept hitting that same mark through the first three rounds. The guys behind him matched his energy. Jonathan Segujja ('25) is a guy that walked onto our team. He had never thrown the weight before coming to the Academy and has steadily improved throughout his career. It was great to see him get on the podium. Collin Torres ('28) was a competitive javelin thrower in high school and that was what I am sure he thought he would throw when he joined our team but coach Woodbury saw his skill set and taught him the weight and today he finished fourth. Jake Nwosu ('25) is always a threat to score in the throwing events. He is a strong young man but has struggled with technical consistency. He didn't set a personal best today, but it was the first time he has scored points for the team at the indoor championship. The final scorer for our team was CJ Bowens ('27). CJ joined our team late in the fall after being a football manager. He has great size and is a powerful, athletic young man. He just picked up the weight in December and threw it for the first time in competition a week ago. I don't need to state how unusual it is for someone to go from never having practiced the event to competing in that same event at a Div. I Championship level after a few months of practice. It doesn't happen. But somehow CJ made it happen. The 30 points we scored in the weight was significantly more than I thought we could put up today. Our other men's champion on the day was Brian McSweeney ('25) in the men's pole vault. His win has been a long time coming. He came into the conference as an accomplished high school vaulter. He has had a nice career with us but could never win a conference title because he was stuck behind some of our better guys or other guys in the conference. But today, Brian came in as the best vaulter in the conference and that is how he jumped. He only missed once at the early bars and put himself into the lead for good with first bar clearances once the bars got up to 16 feet. We entered four guys into the long jump and only one of those guys was predicted to score based on the best marks from the season. But all four guys made the final and scored for the team. It was one of the best long jump days that our men's team has ever had. The guys did a good job of executing and coach Jordan Smith had them ready to go. CJ Posey ('26) was the runner-up with his 24' 6" jump. That was a personal best for CJ, and he is No. 3 on the Army all-time list in that event. He is agonizingly close to hitting a really big jump. It is only a matter of time. Javan Guevara-Cragwell ('25) struggled with some injury issues early in the season but he put those worries behind him and got hot at the right time. His series was the best of his career and although he didn't get the win today, he got on the podium and contributed mightily to the 17-point haul that we had in the long jump. Javan is a money jumper at big meets. When the pressure is on, he is at his best. We did well in some other areas and there are a lot of points up for grabs tomorrow. We qualified well to tomorrow's finals in most events so if we get on the podium tomorrow we have a shot at a pretty high finish in the team standings.
Day Two:
I thought our guys competed well this weekend. It is a sour feeling to have come up short again in trying to win a title but we just didn't have the depth on our roster to put enough points on the board. We have finished second at this meet now for five consecutive years. In some years our strength has come from the distance events in others the sprints. This weekend we were the best team out there in the throws and the jumps. Our coaches have done a nice job with the talent that we have on the roster and we had some good guys, do great things this weekend. Robby Manse ('26) continued his conference dominance. He won the shot put today with a new personal best of 58' 8.5". That mark easily outdistanced the rest of the competition. Robby has been winning and throwing far all year. He isn't afraid to take risks in competition and doesn't back down from challenges. We have had a series of really good throws men in recent years and Robby is closing in on the marks that the likes of Mike Renard ('20), Jamir Gibson ('22), and Geoff Kirk ('21) put up in their storied careers. Robby is the next Army top-level thrower. His resume was good coming into this meet, but now it is great. His two wins this weekend are just the beginning. CJ Posey ('26) put on a clinic in the high jump today. That statement is a bit of a reach for a guy who finished fifth in the event, but he hasn't high-jumped in over two years. So what we saw today was impressive. He came to us earlier in the week and asked if he could high jump this weekend. We knew it could be rough given that he hadn't practiced for a couple of years, but you wouldn't have known that watching the competition today. He was clean (no misses) through 6' 8" and cleared 6' 9" on his third attempt to secure the fifth-place finish. It won't go down as an historic performance but it is a significant performance given the circumstances. CJ is a remarkable talent and coach Jordan Smith has done a nice job of getting him in a position to perform at his best. We saw that yesterday in the long jump and again today in the high jump. Brett Wingard ('26) was another top-field event performer for us today in the triple jump. Brett had a breakthrough performance in the triple jump a couple of weeks ago and then last week, coach Jordan Smith came to me and said he thought Brett might have moved the needle again in training this week. Brett is a powerful jumper and his mark today of 49' 11.25" moved him up to number four on the Academy all-time list. He has had some real consistency in training that led to today's result. He led the event until the fifth round of jumps and then couldn't catch the leader on his final two attempts. He has improved his personal best by over three feet since last year. Canyon Hall ('26) showed why he is a great competitor with his fourth-place finish in the heptathlon this weekend. Canyon started the meet with a huge personal best in the 60m. We expected him to compete for the title this weekend and it seemed a certainty until the long jump where he fouled his first two attempts. He played it safe on his final attempt but that safety jump cost him enough points to limit his ability to go for the win. With a lot of multi-event athletes that kind of mistake would have doomed the remaining five events. Not Canyon. Canyon continued to chip away at the leaders and going into the final event of the heptathlon (1000m) he was in second place. It was a dramatic comeback. The 1000m is probably Canyon's most challenging event. He is a big man. Before the race, I asked him what he planned to do in the 1000m and he told me, "I am going to go for it". A lot of people say they will do something, Canyon does what he says. He doesn't look for approval. But he is the kind of young man that people want to be around because he makes you feel good about yourself through his actions and his words. So when he said he was going to go for it today, it was a must-watch. When the gun went off for the 1000m, he went right with the leaders. He is fearless. He hung on for as long as he could and although they got away from him with one lap remaining, he kept hammering. He started to lose a little of his balance in the homestretch but made it to the line with a new personal best of 2:54.08. I can't say enough about what he means to our program and while he isn't satisfied with his fourth-place finish today, we all know that better days are coming for him. Kasen Jeitz ('26) was our top finisher on the track today. He was the top performer in the 800 coming into the weekend and finished a strong second in the 800 final today with a furious finish that came up just a little bit short. He also anchored our 4x400m relay to a runner-up finish. Jaxon Hammond ('27) claimed a third-place finish in the 60m and although I know he had hopes of winning that event, I think he is showing the kind of consistency that will lead to wins in the future. Chad Dohl ('28) scored for us in both the 200m and the 60m. He has made some significant breakthroughs in the last few weeks and this weekend he put together a series of solid performances in the four races that he ran. He has a bright future ahead of him and will be a factor on our team for the next three years. Although we came up short of a title this weekend, we left the meet optimistic about our chances in the outdoor season.
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