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Shawn St Romain junping at Florida Relays

Men's Track & Field has Strong Showing with Ranked Performances at Pepsi Florida Relay

4/1/2023 8:26:00 PM

GAINESVILLE, Fla.  -  The Prairie View A&M men's track and field team competed in the Pepsi Florida Relays over the weekend with a host of personal and season's best performances.

Freshman Shawn Saint Romain led the field events with his 9th-place finish in the men's Long jump with a mark of 7.06m(23'2").  He is currently ranked 5th on the SWAC performance list and sophomore Michael Bogues who is currently 3rd on the SWAC performance list was 10th in the men's Javelin with his best throw of 49.58m(163'6").    

The action on the track began with an outstanding performance by junior Christion Derrick in the men's 200m dash where he posted a personal best time of 21.27 and it was highlighted by the 4x400m relay team of Derrick, Damon Cobbs, Arrion Knight, and Timothy Demeritt running a blistering preliminary round time of 3:07.91 which currently ranks them #8 in the NCAA. 

Day two of the Pepsi Florida Relays a host more of personal and season's best performances placed several panthers in the top 48 on the NCAA West Regional performance list.

Junior Stanley Hamilton led the field events with his 5th place personal best finish in the triple jump with his leap of 15.06m(49'5) which places him #1 on the SWAC performance list and #27 on the NCAA West Region performance list. 

Cobbs finished 10th in the men's 400-meter dash with a time of 46.74 putting him #2 on the SWAC performance list and #18 in the NCAA West Region. 

UP NEXT:
The Panthers will resume competition next weekend at the Cameron Burrell Alumni Invitational at the University of Houston.

Keep up with all the latest news and information for PVAMU athletics by following pvpanthers.com as well as through Twitter via the PVAMU general sports account (@PVAMUPanthers). You can also follow along on Instagram.com/pvamupanthers.  

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