Tag: track and field

Men’s tennis comes up short on the road

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Wesley Kirchharr Staff Writer The Troy men’s tennis squad came away from a two-match series in Jacksonville, Florida, empty-handed, falling to North Florida and Elon over the weekend. The 0-3 Trojans were handily defeated in Friday’s matchup with North Florida, falling 6-1 in the opening day. The next day’s matches were much closer, but Troy met the same result as the day prior with a 4-3 loss to Elon. The Trojans held Friday’s match close even after Jiaqi Duan and Pelayo Antuña fell 7-6 in the first match of doubles…

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Track teams turn in top 5 finishes

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Daniel Hunt Staff Writer Troy University’s indoor track and field team completed its daylong meet Sunday for the KMS Invitational in Birmingham. Troy totaled seven events with top-five finishes. The women’s team finished in eighth place out of 16 and totaled 67.5 points. This was the fourth time the Trojans have had to travel to Birmingham to compete at the Birmingham CrossPlex. Freshman Naquita Williams set the tone for the day with a fourth-place finish in the women’s weight throw. Williams had the best total distance of any freshman in…

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Track teams place top 10 in Iron City

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Wesley Kirchharr Staff Writer The Troy indoor track and field teams finished competition at the Emory Crossplex Invitational on Monday, bringing home a top 10 finish for the women’s squad. The Trojans competed at the Birmingham Crossplex for the second time this year, and earned a combined eighth-place finish after topping in-state rivals Montevallo and North Alabama, as well as Sun Belt foe Georgia Southern. Of the 23 teams in the women’s competition, Georgia Southern took the top spot with a total of 113 points. The Eagles also topped the…

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Montgomery leads indoor track teams in Iron City

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Wesley Kircharr Staff Writer The Troy indoor track and field team saw several records fall in Friday’s UAB Blazer Invitational in the Trojans’ first meet in over a month. The Trojans were matched up against several Power Five programs including the University of Miami and the University of Alabama. Hakim Montgomery highlighted Troy’s outing at the Birmingham Crossplex by bringing home the top spot in the 60-meter dash. Montgomery ran a qualifying 6.77-second race in the preliminaries, but shaved a tenth of a second off that time to win the…

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‘Fresh’ track still underway

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Taylor Boydstun Variety Editor A new Olympic-quality track is being installed at the Jesse H. Colley Track/Soccer Complex at Troy University. “I think from practice, player performance, recruiting — you name it, it’s going to have a huge impact on (athletes) once it’s complete,” said Tony Ferrante, the senior associate director of athletics for operations and facilities. “You know, everybody wants the best facility they can have, and this is going to put us right back up there with everyone in our conference and everybody in the region.” The project,…

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