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Senior All-American Teddy Williams helped UTSA's 400m relay team record the third-best time (39.59) in Southland history on Saturday.
AUSTIN —
The UTSA track & field teams wrapped up a busy weekend of action on Saturday with a pair of school records at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.
The Roadrunners men saw their 400-meter relay team register the third-fastest time in Southland Conference history and senior Devon Bond continued his strong opening campaign with another record-breaking performance in the triple jump.
The quartet of freshman Adam Hebert, senior All-American Teddy Williams, junior John Matthews and freshman Nate Brunette circled the Mike A. Myers Stadium track in 39.59 to finish fifth. The time shattered the previous program standard of 39.84 set by Will Vese, Williams, Cedric Harris and Steven Brown at the same meet two years ago. The mark was the fastest in the league in a decade and trails only Louisiana Tech's 39.36 effort in 1985 and UT Arlington's 39.58 recorded in 2000. It also ranks as the nation's eighth-quickest time this spring.
Bond, meanwhile, made a triumphant return to the track he called home the previous two seasons. The Trenton, N.J., native easily recorded the longest triple jump measurement of his career, 51-6 ¼ (15.70m), and he obliterated the previous Roadrunners mark of 49-5 ¾ (15.08m) set by Johnathan Whittaker in 2008. The Guyana native, who now ranks 10th nationally, also set his country's outdoor national record less than two months after skipping to an UTSA and Guyanese indoor standard of 52-5 ½ (15.99m) two months ago at the New Balance Invitational in New York City.
Williams also saw action in his inaugural 100m race of the season. The three-time All-American posted the nation's second-best time of the year when he crossed the tape in a wind-legal (3.7 m/s) 10.19 in the Invitational division and that was good for sixth place behind five professional athletes. The time currently stands sixth in the country.
Other top performances included junior Brandon Chiuminetta, who raced to a runner-up finish in the 3,000m steeplechase (9:44.66) on the meet's opening night, and freshman Keith Benford, who picked up a bronze medal in the high jump after recording a season-opening clearance of 6-11 (2.11m) and that ranks fourth on the school's all-time performers list.
Meanwhile, redshirt junior Dana Mecke raced to the league’sfastest times in both the 800 and 1,500 meters. She circled the track twice onWednesday night in a personal-record 2:12.83. The Bulverde native then cameback three days later to record a career-best 4:31.94 in the 1,500m. Her 800mtime leads the circuit by two full seconds and her metric mile clocking isnearly four seconds ahead of her nearest competitor.
The Birds also received winning performances from freshman Katie Bragg [149-3 (45.50m) hammer] and fellow first-year performers Porshia Fobbs (14.97/100m hurdles), Zaquita McClanahan [44-11 ¾ (13.71m) shot put], Phil Steinert [159-6 (48.62) hammer] and Colin Thomas [6-6 ¾ (2.00m) high jump] at the local Trinity Tigers Relays on Friday. UTSA added eight other top-three performances at the one-day meet.
The Roadrunners return to action next Saturday, April 10, at the Trinity Alumni Classic.