Meet: Liberty Open
Location: Lynchburg, Va. (Brant Tolsma Fieldhouse)
Full Results

The Short Story: Freshman Aubree Harris set the tone with a victorious performance in the 60m hurdles in a one-day event at the Liberty Open.

Sprints/Hurdles

• Harris dominated the 60m hurdles with a victorious time of 8.59, setting a new personal record
• Asia Powell finished 5th in the 60m dash with a time of 7.53
• Junior Jaliyah Person rounded out the top-10 in the 400m at 56.68

Distance

• Ava Miller paced the Rams in the 1000m run at 3:01.61
• Freshman Madeleine Devlin ran the 1000m at 3:04.25
• Freshman Viktoria Higgins finished 5th in the 3000m run

• Redshirt junior Selkis Elong finished 5th in the long jump at 5.71m
• Damilola Ogbeta placed 6th in the triple jump at 11.99m

Throws

• Desi Akaolisa followed up her A-10 Field Performer of the Week performance with a top-5 performance in shot put and weight throw
• Akaolisa finished tied for 3rd in weight throw at 18.14m and 5th in shot put at 13.57m
• Redshirt senior Like Matalatala finished with a 12.69m throw in shot put and 15.11m throw in the weight throw
• Freshman Melissa Casiraghi finished tied with Akaolisa in the weight throw at 18.14m

Up Next

VCU travels north next weekend to George Mason to participate in the Patriot Games on Friday, Jan. 30 and Saturday, Jan. 31.