BLACKSBURG, Va. – Highlighted by a program record-tying 60m Dash time by senior sprinter Jackson Cooley and a freshman record performance from Jacob Robinson, the William & Mary indoor track & field teams had a strong outing at the Doc Hale VT Meet.
 
To open competition on Friday at Virginia Tech, after breaking into the program's top 16 with a personal best last week, Cooley posted a new career-best 6.81 mark to tie Davion Hutt's program record time and etch his name atop the history books.
 
Robinson broke his own freshman record in the men's 200m Dash on Saturday with a 21.93 time, shaving over a tenth of a second off his previous best race. His mark doubled as the fourth-best time in program history, just a hundredth of a second behind the third-best time.
 
Friday
Cooley's program-record-tying mark was good for a third-place finish in the 60m Dash.
 
In the 400m, Austin Rice ran the 14^th-best time in program history, hitting a 49.29 mark, he placed in the top nine. David Seekford also posted a top-20 time in W&M history, clocking in with a personal-best 49.80.
 
Freshman Wyatt Townsend posted a personal-best time of 8:32.26 in the 3000m Run, placing sixth.
 
On the women's side, Arianna DeBoer placed third in the 3000m Run, with a time of 9:44.66. 
 
Gabriel Albers posted a season-best 8.71 in the 60m Hurdles prelims, just a hundredth of a second behind his own personal best mark.
 
In another top-ten performance, Katriel Amoyaw placed ninth in the long jump with a 5.81 mark.
 
Jason Nwosu improved his program ranking in the weight throw, moving from 14^th overall to 13^th overall with a 17.55m mark.
 
In the women's pole vault, senior Elizabeth Upright jumped from tied 10^th-all time in the event to tied at eighth with a personal-best 3.75m mark.
 
Elizabeth Dupras posted a personal-best mark in the women's pentathlon, achieving a 2962 score with personal-best marks in the Shot Put (8.80m) and the 60m Hurdles (9.60).
 
The women's Distance Medley Relay team of Lucy Young, Lydia Wallis, Becca Harkness and Emily Sell earned a win with their 12:13.29 finish.
 
Saturday
Placing eighth in the men's 200m, Robinson's blazing 21.93 time broke the freshman record which he set at the Navy Invitational in the fall. Austin Rice also broke into the program's top-16 in the event with his 22.20 mark, good for the 11^th-ranked performance in W&M history.
 
Jonathan Kumer made a program top-10 time in the men's 800m, coming in second place in the event with a personal-best 1:50.35.
 
In the women's mile, DeBoer finished 12^th-overall among 53 placed runners, with a season best time of 4:54.76.
 
With a personal best, Megan Heidebrecht tied the 8^th best performance in program history in the women's triple jump with a 12.15m mark.
 
The women's 4x400 Relay posted a season best performance, as the team of Makenzie Joiner, Lizzy Gregory, Jamison Gilmore and Evelyn Brantley clocked in at 3:56.38.
 
Full meet results are available here.
 
Up Next
The Tribe returns to action next weekend, Friday-Saturday, Feb. 9-10, in Lynchburg, Va., for the Darius Dixon Memorial Invitational at Liberty University. The event will have coverage on ESPN+.
 
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