Monitor & Field Hosts Patriot Games This Weekend

FAIRFAX, Va. – The George Mason monitor and area groups will host their first dwelling indoor meet Friday and Saturday, January 30–31. Hosted on the Field House, the Patriot Games have been a staple of the George Mason program for the reason that 2006–07 season. This 12 months, the Patriots will welcome a slate of collegiate groups to Fairfax, together with VCU, Johns Hopkins, CNU, Catholic (D.C.), Marymount (Va.), Salisbury, Richmond, American, Virginia Union, St. Mary’s (Md.), Loyola (Md.), George Washington, and Mount St. Mary’s. Unattached and novice runners may also compete. 

The Patriot Games will span two days. Events start Friday, Jan. 30, at 4 p.m., with the ladies’s pentathlon and males’s heptathlon getting underway, together with finals within the ladies’s and males’s 5000m run. 

Saturday, Jan. 31, will characteristic a full day of competitors starting at 9:30 a.m., beginning with the lads’s heptathlon 60m hurdles. An entire meet schedule, in addition to the mixed occasions schedule (pentathlon and heptathlon), is linked. The live results website may also present real-time updates to observe the Patriots all through each days of competitors.

The following Patriots are scheduled to compete: 

Men’s Entries

Nadim Abdu (800m)

Jayden Apenteng (60m hurdles, 400m)  

William Michael Baker (Weight throw, shot put)    

Walt Bannerman (Pole vault)

Bryson Barnett (5000m)

Biruk Beardsley (5000m)

Tarek Benlamkaddem (1 mile)

James Bowen (Heptathlon)

Luke Brown (1 mile) 

Davian Burke (60m hurdles)

Nicholas DeWolfe (Heptathlon)

Jordan Edwards (60m)

Nicholas Emmert (1 mile) 

Matthew Fisher (60m)    

Anthony Gibson Jr. (60m)    

Tristan Harris (Triple bounce)  

Daniel Hayes (1 mile)

Robbie Jenkins (5000m) 

Kellen La Roche (High bounce)    

Carson Mandis (Shot put)  

Darren McCoy (60m, lengthy bounce)    

Cameron Portis (Weight throw, shot put)

Jonathan Regules (800m)

Jackson Rowe (5000m)

Trent Saben (Pole vault)

Lloyd Sheppard (5000m) 

Denver Shields (60m)    

James Sims (High bounce)

Jayden Smith (60m hurdles) 

Ethan Swan (Long bounce)    

Aidan Walcott (60m)    

    

Women’s Entries    

Susan Adenitan (60m)    

Fiona Agyekum (Weight throw, shot put)    

Shanell Berry (500m, 800m)     

Kennedy Drish (Pole vault)    

Stephanie Dundas (60m, 60m hurdles)    

Kymara Fernandez (Long bounce)    

Alina Florou Dimitriadou (Pole vault)

Aiko Galvin (500m)    

Gabriela Gibson (Long bounce)

Abigail Graham (5000m)

Simone Hamlar (200m) 

Amelia Male (Weight throw, shot put)    

Sierra Matheson (60m)    

Lindsey Meadows (5000m)  

Ay’rianna Moore (200m)    

Kaela O’Connor (60m, 60m hurdles)    

Marley Oare (Pole vault)    

Liza Parkhomenko (Triple bounce)

Alexa Pinon (3000m)

Miranda Pinon (1 mile) 

Sydney Rhodes (60m)

Morgan Ryerson (Pentathlon) 

Shania Staats (60m)  

Laila Thomas (60m, triple bounce)    

Kailynn Tyson (60m)

Hazel Wells (1 mile)

Aylin Yirmibesoglu (1 mile)

* The Patriots are additionally set to have 1 entry to the Women’s 4x400m Relay.

LAST TIME OUT

The Patriots delivered a formidable two-day exhibiting on the Hokie Invitational, highlighted by standout efforts throughout the monitor and area. Kennedy Drish led the way in which within the ladies’s pole vault, clearing a personal-best 4.24m to rank first within the Atlantic 10 and transfer into the NCAA indoor qualifying image, whereas Walt Bannerman cleared a season-best 5.05m to stay atop the convention. On the monitor, Davian Burke broke the eight-second barrier for the primary time within the 60m hurdles, clocking a personal-best 7.95, and Ella Semple earned an occasion win with a personal-best 4:47.91 within the ladies’s mile. The males’s 4x400m relay of Joziah Johnson, Lance Koontz, Jordan Tuck, and Mason Samuels captured first place, whereas Kailynn Tyson gained the ladies’s triple bounce with a personal-best 12.61m to maneuver to the highest of the A-10. Numerous further private bests and conference-ranked marks underscored a deep, balanced efficiency for the Green and Gold. Eight performances from the weekend in Blacksburg now stand in this system’s indoor all-time prime 10 information.