JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville University track and field team took to the facilities of UNF for the opening day of the ASUN Championship Thursday.
Starting the day off, Eva Belot placed 10
th overall in the high jump with a 1.54-meter leap.
In the preliminary round of the 400-meter hurdles,
Joy Whittington qualified for the finals with a sixth-place finish and a time of 1:04.78.
Cassie Thompson and
Mariandree Chacon both qualified for the finals in the 200-meter with top four showings in the prelims. Thompson finished third overall with a time of 23.90. Chacon was right behind with a 24.14 time, just .02 seconds shy of her season best.
The final event, the grueling 10,000-meter run, featured four different JU runners.
Jordan Dix finished best among the team with a 10
th place finish and a final time of 39:00.30.
Lana Grelli finished in 12
th,
Gabby Huxtable finished in 13
th and
Alexis Holmes finished in 14
th.
Jacksonville will be active during the second day of competition, with student-athletes featured in the long jump, 400m trials, 100m trials, 100m hurdle trials and the 3,000m steeplechase.
The ASUN Championships can be streamed on ESPN+.
