Gauchos had a success splitting locations this weekend
Friday | Ron Mann Classic Invitational
At the Ron Mann Classic Invitational in Flagstaff, is where most of our Gauchos participated and took to the action.
On the women's side of things, (2nd year) Lailah Campbell, Oyindamola Adetutu, (1st year) Petra Onwumere and Aliyah Perkins all had personal best times in the short sprint (60m dash) event. While in the “ring” events (2nd year) Gloria Anuamadi, threw 2 personal bests in the weight and shot put.
The men also took things seriously and posted personal best record’s, where some broke their already established GCC school record from the meet last week at PVCC. In the men's 60m, (2nd year) Anthony Lindsey, Kaleb Denmon, DeMari Colbert and (1st year) Kevin Seales races to career best. K. Seales qualified for finals in the 60m and finished 5th overall with another Personal Best time of 6.89 seconds. (2nd year) Kyler McQueen, (1st year) Roman Zamarron, Cole Carpenter and Konrad Clark all posted personal best indoor performance marks in the 400m dash. K. Clark, made his birthday celebration well worth the meet, breaking his already impressive (indoor) 400m GCC record taking a 3rd overall finish in with a time of 47.26seconds. C. Carpenter was close finishing in 4th place overall in 47.38 seconds. Those times moved our two gentlemen up to #2&4 in the National NJCAA rankings in the indoor 400m. Top Gaucho finisher in the Shot Put was (1st year) Emmanuel Hernandez. He threw his way into the final 8 to place 7th overall with a personal best mark of 15.27m (50-01.25ft).
Saturday | CAC Indoor Invitational
The Gauchos started the day off right with performances from (1st year) Marques Mayorga and Seth Bohen. The paired up to take 7th and 8th place finishes in the Mile run. S. Bohen then ran to a 3rd place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:00.97 seconds. In the women's 1000m, (1st year) Gracey Yancy had a good run to finish 6th with a time of 3:49.67 seconds.
The Gauchos team energy was good while seeing and sharing experiences on both days this past weekend. We held our own competing against several NAIA, NCAA D1,2&3 (4 year) Colleges and Universities. Receiving, major compliments from coaches like GCU, NAU, Cal State Fullerton and Southern Utah just to name a few. The Gauchos will stay home this weekend to host the Gaucho Indoor Invitational in Glendale, Arizona. Please join us by coming out to campus to cheer on the GCCTF teams at Matt O’Hannah Stadium, starting at 10:00am! We would definitely appreciate your support. Hoping to see you there! Ride On Gauchos and G’s up!
Results:
•Ron Mann Classic https://results.
