Results
SAN ANTONIO, Texas —
Xavier University of Louisiana women's track and field
scored a meet-record 309 points
and repeated Saturday as team champion at the Red River
Athletic Conference Championships.
The Gold Nuggets
eclipsed the previous RRAC mark of 248 points by Southwest (N.M.) in 2019.
XULA's 104-point winning margin over runner-up Our Lady of the Lake was the largest by an RRAC women's
team since Langston won by 109 over Huston-Tillotson in 2010.
The XULA women won the team title
at a conference meet for the sixth consecutive time and the ninth time
in 10 attempts. Prior to 2022, XULA competed in the Gulf Coast Athletic.
XULA won seven events Friday
and seven more Saturday. The Gold Nuggets final-day champions were
Kynnedy Turner in the 100- (11.88 seconds) and 200-meter dashes (24.81),
DaNya Horne in the discus (39.04 meters/128 feet, 1 inch),
A'Blesin Wilson
in the high jump (1.45 meters/4 feet, 9 inches),
Emerald Carter in the 400 hurdles (1:05.97),
Olevia Brown in the long jump (5.27 meters/17 feet, 3 1/2 inches)
and the 1,600 relay team of
Fedjine Bell,
Ariel Ford, Carter and Turner
(3:52.53).
Turner (35 points), Carter (30 1/2) and Wilson (30)
led XULA in individual two-day scoring. Turner
was a champion in all five of her events — she won the 400 and anchored the 400
relay Friday — and Wilson led XULA in Saturday points with 24,
including second place in the javelin and third in the long jump.
Four of Turner's five victories included A-qualifying marks for NAIA nationals.
The sophomore from Conyers, Ga.,
became the first athlete, female or male, since 2018 to win the 100, 200 and 400 in the same Red River meet.
Turner, Carter, Ford, Horne, Horton and
Skylah Barton were champions in multiple events. Turner (track) and Wilson (field)
won meet awards for most individual points, and
Yhann Plummer was chosen RRAC Coach of the Year by his peers.
Carter and Ford were multiple-event winners
at a conference meet for the third consecutive year. In their careers Ford has won eight conference championships
— individual events or relays — and Carter seven.
XULA's other double-digit scorers were Horne (28),
Barton (25 1/2),
Elise Adams (22), Brown (18), Ford (17),
Kyla Coleman (14),
Amber Parks (13 1/2),
Zoe Cordova (12),
Kayla Jackson (12) and
Jade Harris (11). Eighteen of the 19 Gold Nuggets
who competed scored in multiple events.
Brown won narrowly in the long jump over two teammates —
by two-hundredths of a meter over Carter and by three-hundredths over Wilson.
Here are all XULA women's results from the second and final day of the
RRAC Championships:
100:
Kynnedy Turner, 1st in 11.88;
Ariel Ford, 5th in 12.53;
Olevia Brown, 10th in 13.07;
Darryan Horton, 12th in 13.87
200:
Kynnedy Turner, 1st in 24.81;
Ariel Ford, 6th in 26.11;
Hannah Stoutmire, 7th in 26.32;
Darryan Horton, 13th in 29.70
800:
Skylah Barton, 4th in 2:24.68;
Amber Parks, 9th in 2:58.26;
Jalyn Jenkins, 10th in 3:09.39
1,500:
Skylah Barton, 2nd in 5:03.01;
Jalyn Jenkins, 9th in 6:59.31
5,000:
Amber Parks, 3rd in 24:32.98
400 Hurdles:
Emerald Carter, 1st in 1:05.97;
Kayla Jackson, 2nd in 1:08.81;
Kyla Coleman, 3rd in 1:09.95;
Jade Harris, 4th in 1:10.04
1,600 Relay:
Fedjine Bell,
Ariel Ford,
Emerald Carter,
Kynnedy Turner, 1st in 3:52.53
Discus:
DaNya Horne, 1st in 39.04 meters/128 feet, 1 inch;
Elise Adams, 3rd in 35.11 meters/115 feet, 2 inches;
Kayla Gant, 6th in 25.50 meters/83 feet, 8 inches;
Octavia McDougle, 8th in 24.63 meters/80 feet, 10 inches
High Jump:
A'Blesin Wilson, 1st in 1.45 meters/4 feet, 9 inches
Javelin:
A'Blesin Wilson, 2nd in 31.38 meters/102 feet, 11 inches;
Elise Adams, 6th in 21.97 meters/72 feet, 1 inch;
Octavia McDougle, 7th in 21.45 meters/70 feet, 4 inches;
DaNya Horne, 10th in 14.37 meters/47 feet, 2 inches
Long Jump:
Olevia Brown, 1st in 5.27 meters/17 feet, 3 1/2 inches;
Emerald Carter, 2nd in 5.25 meters/17 feet, 2 3/4 inches;
A'Blesin Wilson, 3rd in 5.24 meters/17 feet, 2 1/4 inches;
Zoe Cordova, 7th in 4.83 meters/15 feet, 10 1/4 inches
Team Scoring:
XULA 309, Our Lady of the Lake 205, Huston-Tillotson 100, Jarvis Christian 57, Paul Quinn 0
