BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The South Alabama track and field teams had another strong showing to start the season, breaking one school record and two meet records at the Samford Invitational on Friday at the Birmingham CrossPlex.
 
Colette Uys set a new school record in the shot put, reaching a distance of 15.77 meters, beating the previous record by .30 meters. She finished in fourth place in the competition.
 
Pole-vaulter Kyle Rademeyer set a new meet record for the Samford Invitational, reaching a height of 5.48 meters. The height registers as the fourth-highest in Jaguar history.
 
Jaguar athlete Sebastian Reyneke finished the men's heptathlon in second place with 5,407 points, just 24 points behind the winner, Samford's Ty Kimberlin. Reyneke won the shot put (13.96m), the high jump (2.02m) and the pole vault (4.08m). His total is the second-highest indoor heptathlon score in South Alabama history.
 
Josie Pry (8.92 seconds) and Grace Wolf (8.93 seconds) took third and fourth place in the women's 60m hurdles. Jalen Boyd was the top Jaguar in the men's 400m, crossing the finish line in fourth place at 48.73 seconds. He was followed by Xavier Rogers in fifth place (49.03 seconds), the new eighth and ninth-fastest times in school history.
 
Giacomo DeLuca III finished the 800 meters in fifth place with a time of 1:58.30. Two Jaguars placed in the top-five in the men's mile. Kirami Yego's time of 4:10.38 was good for second place. He was joined by DeLuca in fourth place (4:16.37). In addition, Yego set a meet record in the men's 3000m with his first-place finish of 8:12.48. Teammate Teagan Flanagan finished second (8:14.33).
 
On the women's side of distance running, Adele Magaud finished in third place in the 3000 meters with a time of 9:51.06, good for fifth in school history. Starlynn Costa was right behind her in fourth place (9:54.68).
 
Dorian Curry won the men's high jump, clearing a height of 2.00 meters. Kiara Risher completed the sweep in the high jump events for South Alabama, winning the women's competition with a height of 1.75 meters.
 
Uys and Bodine Degli-Umberti finished fourth and fifth in the women's weight throw. Uys's distance of 18.01 meters is the fifth-longest in South Alabama history. Degli-Umberti recorded a distance of 17.86 meters, which is sixth all-time at South Alabama.
 
Francois Prinsloo took third place in the men's weight throw with a toss of 18.94 meters, fourth-highest in Jaguar history. Prinsloo now holds the five-longest weight throw distances in school history. Sebastian Loschner finished in third place in the other men's throwing competition, reaching a distance of 16.52 meters in the shot put.
 
In the women's triple jump, Iyana Johnson (12.03m) took first place by the slimmest of margins, besting Kara Steele of Tulane by one one-hundredth of a meter. The freshman now holds the fifth-best mark in South Alabama history.
 
The Jaguars closed out the event with a second-place finish in the men's 4x400 meter relay. Xavier Rogers, Cam Stewart, Jalen Boyd and Jean Pierre Le Roux teamed up to cross the finish line in 3:16.51.
 
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Head Coach Paul Brueske:
"We had several personal bests, two meet records and a school record. So, it appears we are tracking in the right direction. A few athletes were close to school records. Still, we have some room for improvement and some time to get in some good training these next few weeks so we can continue to improve."
 
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