TicketSmarter WAC Men’s Indoor Track and Field Athletes of the Week Announced
DENVER – UTRGV's Max Carmona and GCU's Grant Carpenter has been named the TicketSmarter Western Athletic Conference Men's Track and Field Athletes of the Week for January 27- February 2.
Carmona, a sophomore from Brownsville, TX., earned gold with his relay teammates in the Distance Medley Race to set a new UTRGV program record and move to the number one spot in the WAC by almost 6 seconds. Carmona ran in the 800m event to earn bronze with a time of 1:53.69.
Carpenter, a senior from Surprise, Ariz., competed at the Houston Invitational this week. At the meet, Carpenter competed in the Heptathlon received a score of 5052 to earn place fifth. During the Heptathlon, Carpenter was able to jump a 6.60m in the Long Jump event. He placed second in the Shot Put event with a length of 12.70m.
Other track nominees: GCU's Jacob Lewis finished fourth in the Mile run (4:11.35) and sixth in the 3000m (8:32.22)... Seattle U's Nathan Pixler placed 16th in the 800m (1:53.94).
Other field nominee: UTRGV's Baffour Kyem competed in the Long Jump (6.60m) and now has the third-best Triple Jump (14.52m) in UTRGV's history.
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