{"id":33375,"date":"2017-05-04T08:39:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=33375"},"modified":"2017-05-04T08:39:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T12:39:04","slug":"three-records-go-emu-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/three-records-go-emu-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Three records go down for EMU men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sending a large contingent to the Liberty Twilight Qualifier in Lynchburg on Wednesday, EMU&#8217;s track &amp; field teams had several great performances, including a number of PRs and three new school records.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/abdus-salaam_nuriddin_hv7w\" target=\"_blank\">Nuriddin Abdus-Salaam<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Charlotte Court House, Va.\/Randolph Henry) torched the EMU 100m record, winning his heat by running 10.85 seconds. He broke\u00a0<strong>Leroy Dutton<\/strong>&#8216;s 35-year-old record of 10.94 seconds.\u00a0Abdus-Salaam was the top D-III runner in the 29-man field.<\/p>\n<p>The men&#8217;s 4x100m team of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/amoateng_grant_igwp\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Amoateng<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Bristow, Va.\/Patriot),\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/faint_connor_b7ns\" target=\"_blank\">Connor Faint<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Winchester, Va.\/Millbrook),\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/sampson_hunter_xoc0\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Sampson<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Salem, Va.\/Salem) and Abdus-Salaam broke their own school mark by running in 42.12 seconds and finishing third overall. The foursome ran a 42.41 at the ODAC Championships a weekend-and-a-half ago.<\/p>\n<p>Senior\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/nisly_jared_6koq\" target=\"_blank\">Jared Nisly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Lancaster, Pa.\/Lancaster Mennonite) re-broke the 3000m steeplechase record he set at the ODAC meet. He ran his second-ever sub-10:00 time, crossing in 9:38.01. Nisly already owned the EMU mark at 9:47.69.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jared ran a very solid race,&#8221; said Director of Track &amp; Field Isaac Bryan, who coaches the middle and long distance runners. &#8220;He had a consistent pace and a very good finish &#8211; Jared is having a great finish in his last season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While not breaking a record, Amoateng soared to a personal best in the triple jump and likely punched his ticket to nationals with a jump of 14.66m (48ft 1.25in). Amoateng moves to No. 8 in the nation with his PR, clearing his previous best by 0.42m (1ft 4.50in).\u00a0<strong>Michael Allen<\/strong>\u00a0set the school record at 14.85m (48ft 8.75in) in 2010.\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/stover_darious_d9yh\" target=\"_blank\">Darious Stover<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Fort Carson, Colo.\/Mesa Ridge) also jumped in the event and landed at 12.20m (40ft 0.50in).<\/p>\n<p>Then in the long jump, Amoateng hit the sand at 6.38m (20ft 11.25in). Stover came in at 6.20m (20ft 4.25in).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/wtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/kittrell_oksana_xipl\" target=\"_blank\">Oksana Kittrell<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Bedford, Va.\/Liberty) finished second in the women&#8217;s triple jump by jumping a season&#8217;s best 11.04m (36ft 2.75in). She also landed at 5.06m (16ft 7.25in) in the long jump.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/wtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/roach_chloe_khjd\" target=\"_blank\">Chloe Roach<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Leesburg, Va.\/Tuscarora) narrowly missed the school record in the women&#8217;s 200m by running 25.43 seconds.\u00a0<strong>Lorenda Abbott<\/strong>\u00a0owns Eastern Mennonite&#8217;s best time at 25.42 from 2000.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/howard_jamel_jnwh\" target=\"_blank\">Jamel Howard<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Leesburg, Va.\/Tuscarora) finished third and improved his personal best in the high jump by jumping 1.99m (6ft 6.25in), moving him into a tie for No. 33 in the nation.\u00a0Howard and two other men each cleared the same height atop the leaderboard, but Howard settled for third at the meet based on jumps.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/wtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/miller_tajah_2vuq\" target=\"_blank\">Tajah Miller<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Waynesboro, Va.\/Waynesboro) ran 12.33 in the women&#8217;s 100m.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/wtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/williams_brittany_l2bk\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Williams<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(King George, Va.\/King George) ran 1:01.48 in the 400m<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/anhold_steven_xu9j\" target=\"_blank\">Steven Anhold<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Churchville, Va.\/Fort Defiance) ran in the 5000m and clocked a time of 17:12.95.<\/p>\n<p>Head Track &amp; Field Coach Brian Simpson said he was very pleased with this meet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re sitting in a great position and our performances are improving at the right time of the season,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We will spend this week tightening up a few areas so that we can continue to improve as we move closer to nationals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Royals will send middle distance runners\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/denlinger_tyler_t7u6\" target=\"_blank\">Tyler Denlinger<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Perkasie, Pa.\/Dock Mennonite Academy) and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/mtrack\/2016-17\/bios\/thibodeaux_alec_1m07\" target=\"_blank\">Alec Thibodeaux<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(Mount Sidney, Va.\/Fort Defiance) to the Hokie Twilight at Virginia Tech on Thursday. Then it&#8217;s a break until the SWAT Last Chance Meet on <span class=\"aBn\"><span class=\"aQJ\">May 15<\/span><\/span>, hosted by Swarthmore College.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sending a large contingent to the Liberty Twilight Qualifier in Lynchburg on Wednesday, EMU&#8217;s track &amp; field teams had several great performances, including a number of PRs and three new <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/three-records-go-emu-men\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Three records go down for EMU men<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5733],"tags":[],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-33375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-outdoor-track"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Three records go down for EMU men - EMU News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/three-records-go-emu-men\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three records go down for EMU men - EMU News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sending a large contingent to the Liberty Twilight Qualifier in Lynchburg on Wednesday, EMU&#8217;s track &amp; 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