SAN ANTONIO — UTSA received three solid performances from Dusan Makevic (3,000m), Jurmarcus Shelvin (400m) and its distance medley relay team at last weekend's season-opening Texas A&M 11-Team Invitational and all three registered marks that currently rank among the top 20 nationally.
Makevic, a senior from Sabac, Serbia, clocked a personal-best time of 8:11.85, an improvement of nearly three-and-a-half seconds from his previous top mark (8:15.27 recorded as a sophomore at Louisiana-Monroe), and that propelled him to second place on the program's all-time performance chart. That time currently ranks 11th in the country. He missed breaking Olympian Roger Soler's 31-year-old school record of 8:10.09 by less than two seconds in placing a half second behind BYU gold medalist Rory Linkletter, who broke the tape in 8:11.35.
Meanwhile, Shelvin clocked a personal-best time of 47.76 en route to fifth place in the 400m and that moved him up to fourth on the program's all-time performance chart. That mark stands 19th on the national leaderboard.
The DMR of Luca Chatham, Kaylan Harris, Kyren Hollis and Makevic recorded a time of 10:10.04 en route to fourth place on Friday night and that currently ranks 12th in the nation.
All three marks sit atop the Conference USA leaderboard, while the 1,600-meter relay of Desmond Jefferson, Va-Sheku Sheriff, Mason Loiodice and Hollis, which clocked a time of 3:16.06, ranks second.
The Roadrunners will return to action next Saturday, Jan. 30, at the John Thomas Terriers Classic in Boston, Mass.