Patriots Shine, Publish NCAA-Qualifying Marks to Shut Out Patriot Games

FAIRFAX, Va. – George Mason observe and area closed out the Patriot Games on Saturday, January 31 on the Field House with a robust closing day, highlighted by occasion victories and private bests

In the lads’s heptathlon pole vault, sophomore Nicholas DeWolfe cleared 4.84m to complete first within the occasion. The mark helped DeWolfe keep his lead within the standings because the mixed occasions continued. DeWolfe went on to safe first place total within the males’s heptathlon, ending the competitors with 4432 factors to assert the mixed occasions win for the Patriots. 

George Mason athletes collected a number of occasion victories throughout the observe and area occasions. The ladies’s 4x400m relay crew of Shanell Berry, Salma Fizaoui, Simone Hamlar, and Ay’rianna Moore earned first place with a time of 4:00.99. In the sprints, Kailynn Tyson captured the ladies’s 60m finals in 7.69, whereas Jayden Apenteng received the lads’s 400m with a time of fifty.79. 

The hurdles have been one other spotlight for the Patriots. Jayden Smith claimed first place within the males’s 60m hurdles finals with a time of seven.80, a efficiency that positioned him thirty ninth on the NCAA Indoor Qualifying List. On the ladies’s aspect, Kaela O’Connor earned the win within the 60m hurdles finals with a season-best 8.76, whereas Stephanie Dundas additionally recorded a season-best 9.15. 

Field occasions continued to provide victories for Mason. Walt Bannerman cleared a season-best 5.30m to win the lads’s pole vault, a mark that presently ranks thirty first nationally. Kennedy Drish earned the victory within the ladies’s pole vault with a clearance of 4.11m, whereas William Michael Baker III received the lads’s weight throw with a mark of 15.74m. 

Several Patriots posted notable personal-best performances. In the lads’s 60m, Aidan Walcott ran private bests of seven.01 within the semifinals and 6.983 within the finals, whereas Darren McCoy additionally clocked a personal-best 6.986. 

Distance runners reepresented on the house meet with robust showings. Nicholas Emmert positioned third within the males’s mile with a personal-best 4:12.49, whereas Tarrek Benlamkaddem recorded a personal-best 4:22.12. On the ladies’s aspect, Aylin Yirmibesoglu ran a personal-best 5:16.88 within the mile, and Miranda Pinon added a private file of 5:33.07. Alexa Pinon posted a personal-best 11:16.35 within the ladies’s 3000m. 

Additional highlights included a freshman private better of 5.27m within the ladies’s lengthy leap by Kymara Fernandez, a personal-best 15.05m within the males’s weight throw by Cameron Portis, and a tie for a private better of 16.81m by Fiona Agyekum within the ladies’s weight throw. 

George Mason can be again in motion subsequent weekend on the Penn Classic in Philadelphia, Pa. from Friday, February 6 to Saturday, February 7.