The William & Mary men's track & field team put a capper on an outstanding weekend and even better indoor season on Sunday, winning four individual titles and finishing a best-ever second at the IC4A Championships.  The Tribe finished with 85 team points, behind only champions Connecticut with 127.5, while Albany was a distant third with 62 points.  Combined with Friday's two event wins, W&M's six championships won this year are both the most-ever in a single year (passing four in 1975), but also a full quarter of the 24 total indoor championships in school history.

Complete Results

- The first event of the day also delivered the first win of the day for W&M, as junior All-American KJ Cook (Buena Vista, Va.) put the shot a career-best 18.20m (59-8.5) for his first IC4A title.  Seeded first heading into finals, Cook only briefly lost the lead in the fifth round, passed by the third-place thrower (on tiebreaks) and then the second-place thrower, who made a big jump from 17 meters to 18.18m.  Cook responded immediately, hitting his 18.20m put with the final performance of the fifth round, and also had the best throw of the sixth round as well to lock up the win.  He is just the second athlete in school history to win the IC4A shot put title indoors, joining Taylor Frenia '17 who won in 2016, and also ranks second only to Frenia all-time among Tribe athletes and in individual performances.  Also in the shot put, junior Connor Scott (Mechanicsville, Va.) had a personal-best of his own, putting the shot 17.29m (56-8.75) in the sixth and final round to place fourth overall and earn All-East honors.  That improved Scott's position as the fifth-ranked thrower in school history.  Sophomore Troy Yearwood (Chesapeake, Va.) was 11th overall, with a put of 16.01m (52-6.5).

- The Tribe's second win came in the 800m run, where redshirt-senior Chris Short (Toano, Va.) picked up his second consecutive IC4A Championship.  Short, who was the champion at 1,000m last year, dropped down to the 800m this year and settled in second overall through the first half of the race.  Over the third lap, he moved into the lead, and then kept pulling away over the bell to run a lifetime-best 1:50.03.  That was the seventh-fastest race in school history and improved Short's position as the second-fastest athlete ever at W&M.  His is the first win in the 800m/half mile event indoors for the Tribe since 1974 NCAA Champion Reggie Clark '75 won the 880y as a senior in 1975.

- Back on the infield, redshirt-sophomore Michael Fairbanks (Fairfax Station, Va.) peaked at the right time, and won his first IC4A title with a lifetime-best vault of 5.20m (17-0.75).  Fairbanks didn't try to mess with any passed bars, and just professionally dismantled each of the first six heights.  He had a first-attempt clear at 4.70m, 4.85m, 4.95m, and 5.05m, before taking two attempts to pass 5.15m.  His final clear, at 5.20m, was another first-attempt make to give him his first-ever 17-foot vault.  With no other competitors left, Fairbanks then took three tries at 5.43m (17-9.75), which would have been a school record, but was unable to clear at that height.  His winning height was tied for the fifth-best single performance in school history, and he is the third IC4A indoor champion in school history, joining Dave Lipinski '78 in 1977 and Derek O'Connell '16 in 2016.

- The fourth win of the day came from a familiar source, redshirt-junior JP Trojan (Chardon, Ohio), who became the first W&M athlete to ever win two individual events at the same IC4A Championships.  One day after winning the 5,000m, Trojan ran another lifetime-best, 8:03.93, to take the 3,000m as well.  Trojan stayed patient, in contact but ninth out of 10 runners in his section after the first kilometer, and then over the course of the second kilometer dropped a hammer that no one else was able to match.  He improved nine seconds in the middle of the race, running 2:39 while no one else but two could even break 2:42, and then kept dropping in the final kilometer, closing in 2:36.37 to win by just more than a second and a quarter.  Trojan's time of 8:03.93 was the fifth-fastest ever at W&M, and ranks him third all-time among Tribe athletes behind only Hall of Famers Matt Lane '01 and Ken Halla '86.  His win was just the second all-time at W&M, and the first since Ron Martin '74 won the two-mile at the 1975.  Also in the 3,000m, junior Spencer Tsai (Eugene, Ore.) ran a lifetime-best 8:24.51 to finish 17th overall.

- W&M also earned a pair of All-East honors in the mile.  Redshirt-sophomore Evan Goodell (St. Louis, Mich.) ran a lifetime-best 4:06.88 for fifth overall, and to improve to 15th all-time at W&M in the event.  His classmate Patrick Lynch (Vienna, Va.) was close behind him in 4:09.10, another lifetime-best, and finished sixth overall.

- The final All-East performance of the weekend came in the distance medley relay, where the Tribe finished fifth overall in 9:58.73.  That team included redshirt-sophomores Johnny Rogers (Vienna, Va.) and Colin Grip (Acton, Mass.), freshman Andrew Lagattuta (Glen Rock, N.J.), and senior Cooper Leslie (Camp Hill, Pa.).

With the regular season now concluded, William & Mary turns its attention to the outdoor campaign, which will begin at home on Saturday, March 21, with the Dan Stimson Memorial Meet.

2020 IC4A Indoor Track & Field Championships
Final Team Standings
1. Connecticut 127.5
2. William & Mary 85
3. Albany 62
4. Northeastern 55
5. Hampton 43
6. New Hampshire 35
7. Rhode Island 34
8. Stony Brook 33
9. Rutgers 32
10. Binghamton 26
11. LIU 24
12. Monmouth 23.83
13. Fairleigh Dickinson 20
T14. Vermont 15
T14. VMI 15
T16. Iona 12
T16. Bucknell 12
18. Fordham 11.33
T19. Rider 10
T19. Manhattan 10
T21. Columbia 9
T21. Md.-Eastern Shore 9
T23. Mount St. Mary's 8
T23. Yale 8
T25. Central Connecticut 7
T25. Sacred Heart 7
T27. Marist 6
T27. Tample 6
T27. Boston College 6
30. Saint Francis 5.33
31. Providence 5
T32. St. Joseph's 4
T32. La Salle 4
34. Bryant 3
T35. Colgate 2
T35. Richmond 2
T35. Georgetown 2