Men’s Sprint Medley Relay Breaks School Record to Cap Off Pepsi Florida Relays

Thursday, March 28

Gainesville, Fla.

Indiana University

Florida Relays

Men’s Sprint Medley Relay Breaks School Record to Cap Off Pepsi Florida Relays

3/30/2019 8:19:00 PM | Track and Field

Results

GAINSVILLE, Fla.— On the final day of the 2019 Pepsi Florida Relays Indiana Track & Field saw their men's sprint medley relay (SMR) squad break the program record. Rikkoi Brathwaite, Derek Grimmer, DuShawn Tunstall and Cooper Williams crossed the finish line first in a record setting time of 3:19.92.

On the track, it was relay day on Saturday afternoon. Prior to the men's SMR the women's squad consisting of Jaela Gay, Megan Grabowski, Natalie Price and Joely Pinkston combined for a sixth place finish in a time of 3:55.83.

Indiana took two second place honors in the 4x800 relay. First, Bailey Hertenstein, Kelsey Harris, Mallory Mulzer, and Haley Harris raced a solid race as they ran the second fastest time in school history (8:32.89). Bennett, Jalen Royal, Adam Wallace, and Kenneth Hagen combined t run the eighth fastest men's race in school history (7:21.68).

Nationally, both the men and women hold the second fastest time in the NCAA so far this season.

Grabowski, Price, Gay, and Egbula returned to the track one last time on Saturday to combine for 4x200. They raced to a time of 1.38.66.

The Hoosiers swept the men's and women's distance medley relay (DMR). In the women's race, Claire Hamilton, Jeyland Valentin, Pinkston, and Hannah Stoffel finished 12.32 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. Their time of 11:39.17 put them 15^th on the IU all-time list. On the men's side, Teddy Browning, Williams, Tony Newbern, and Joe Murphy stringed together another solid Hoosier performance as they finished in a time of 9:54.46.

In the men's 4x100 relay, Grimmer, Brathwaite, Tunstall, and Nate Davis went to work and took fourth in their section with a time of 40.98. Grabowski, Riley Egbula, Price, and Jaela Gay ran a time of 46.84.

Eric Bethea led the Hoosiers in the field as he recorded a new outdoor PR with distance of 16.19m (53' 1.5") in the triple. He was the highest finishing collegiate jumper and recorded the seventh best distance in IU history. On the women's side, Leah Moran secured a distance of 12.51m (41' .5").

Adam Coulon recorded another first place mark in pole vault as he tied his PR height of 5.52m (18' 1.25"). His height was an outdoor personal record as he stays fourth all-time.

Hope Purcell competed in her first outdoor collegiate high jump where she was able to clear a distance of 1.70m (5' 7") to take fourth overall.

Two Hoosiers competed in the shot put. Maddy Pollard led the duo by notching a distance of 16.43m (53' 11") to place sixth. Khayla Dawson threw a distance of 16.01m (52' 6.5") and finished ninth.

Up next, the Hoosiers will take the week off and return to the oval on Friday, Apr. 11 to compete in the two day Tennessee Relays.