Meet: VCU Rams Indoor Invitational
Location: Virginia Beach, Va.
Full Results

The Short Story:  VCU Rams win three distance events in the Rams Indoor Invitational season opener. Freshman Chanan Mathis (500m/1:06.02) junior Kendall Phillips (800m/1:57.75) freshman Thomas Hess (1000m/2:31.79) all took first place for the Rams

SPRINTS

• Freshman Jordan Davis led the herd for the Rams finishing ninth with a 22.41 time in the 200m.
• Sophomore Phillip Daniel (24.17) finished 24 in the 200m and senior Trevor Thomas (24.99) finished 26.
• In the 300m race freshman Emmanueel Oche finished third with a 34.69 finish time, senior Christopher White also finished in the top 5 (4) with a 35.08 time.
• Senior Darius Reed (36.69),  junior David Coles (36.71), and sophomore Aubrey Bryant (37.23), finished seventh, eighth, and ninth for the rams.
• Paul Adelugba (11/37.55) and Winston Broiles (13/37.94) round out the 300m for black and gold.

DISTANCE

• The Rams had a strong day in the 500m, taking home first and second. Freshman Jaeden Cassell finished second (1:06.46) behind Mathis.
• Senior Joel Bowers (1:06.85) and senior Lewis Freeman (1:06.96) finished fourth and fifth for VCU.
• Freshman Donovan Motley secured seventh with a 1:08.40 finish.
• Freshman Curtis Boykin took bronze in the men's 800m with a 2:05.00 time.
• Freshman Carter Smith finished third for the Rams (2:33.75) in the 1000m race.
• Freshman Jacob Barrow took eighth in the 1000m (2:39.15).
• Freshman Cole Dawson (4:30.66) and Boykin (4:35.11) take fourth and fifth in the one-mile event.
• Freshman Carson Echard (8:56.77), Barrow (8:58.92), junior Kendall Phillips (9:07.37) and senior Kyle Weldon (9:10.94) take seventh through tenth in the 3000m race. 

Relays

• VCU's group B (Bowers, Motley, Reed, and Oche) finished in eighth in the 4 x 400 crossing the finish with a 3:29.83 time.

JUMPS

• Freshman Isaiah-Taji Kargbo-Owens won the triple-jump event for the rams, with a 14.84m distance.
• Senior Trevor Thomas finished eighth for VCU in the long jump, jumping 6.31m. 

Throws

• Freshman Shinobu Hawk (14.68) and Diego Turner (14.55) finish fourth and fifth in the men's shot put.

 UP NEXT
 
VCU track & field will head to Blacksburg Jan. 12-13, for the Virginia Tech Invitational.