The William & Mary men's track & field team turned in a number of top performances Saturday at High Point's Bob Davidson Memorial Meet, including the fastest relay in a generation, to close out the first weekend of the outdoor season. In the entirely unofficial team scores, the Tribe finished third out of 11 teams.
The speed showed up from the very first for W&M, with the 4x100m relay of
Ethan Buenviaje (Chesapeake, Va.),
Jackson Cooley (Reston, Va.),
Matt Chabala (San Ramon, Calif.), and
Theo Chambers (McLean, Va.) running 42.14 for third place in the first race of the day. That was the seventh-fastest time ever in school history, and the fastest race for the Tribe since 1985, when the school record was set at 41.17 at the ECAC South Championships. Next up was the 1,500m, where
Spencer Tsai (Eugene, Ore.) and
Johnny Rogers (Vienna, Va.) both ran personal-bests in 3:58.09 and 3:58.90, respectively. That placed the pair of redshirt-juniors fifth and sixth overall.
In the 110m hurdles, redshirt-freshman
Daniel Layton (Waynesburg, Pa.) ran 15.15 seconds for fourth place, ranking as the ninth-fastest hurdler in school history. In the 400m, Chambers was also fourth, in 48.98 seconds, and in the 800m,
Colin Grip (Acton, Mass.) ran 1:56.72 for sixth overall. The team of
Jack Bunting (Summit, N.J.), Chambers, Cooley, and Chabala took fifth overall in the 4x400m, running 3:21.18 in the final event of the day. W&M's top performances also extended to the throwing field, where redshirt-junior
Connor Scott (Mechanicville, Va.) earned a pair of silver medals. In the shot put, he put the shot 16.46m (54-0), and then in the discus, he set a lifetime-best by more than two feet to take second in 51.33m (168-5). That improved Scott to sixth overall among Tribe athletes. Also in the discus, redshirt-junior
KJ Cook (Buena Vista, Va.) took third with a throw of 49.59m (162-8).
William & Mary is back in action next Saturday, March 27, competing at the Navy Spring Meet in Annapolis, Md.
