A pair of freshmen made historical impacts Saturday as the Barton Community College men's track and field team competed in the Washburn Rust Buster in Topeka, Kansas.
In the one-day event, Barton had eighteen performances within the top ten placings with seven personal bests while adding nine more entries to the national indoor championship qualifier list.
Headlining the achievements were a pair of freshmen, making their mark within the top ten all-time list of program history.
Clocking a program 7th in last week's 5000m collegiate debut, Theo Leveque was back attacking the record book Saturday clocking a program 10th best 8:38.62 to punch his first national qualifying ticket.
Barton was again solid in the throwing events especially in the shot put as the trio of national qualifiers led the field in a 1-2-3 placing. In what will be a battle between the three all season, Saturday it was freshman Christopher Young on top with a meet record 17.48m (57-04.25) to mark a 7th best program throw. Brandon Lloyd, who punched the program's 5th best mark last week to lead this season's top mark, settled for runner-up at 17.36m (56-11.50) while Christopher Crawford took third at 16.39m (53-09.25).
In addition to Leveque's fifteen trips around the oval, the Cougars also had a successful day on the shorter events with a seven performances within the top five placings.
Getting the running events started was the 3-4-5 60m hurdle finish by a trio of Cougar new qualifiers led by Devory Pinnock's 8.17 clocking ahead of personal best times of Daqwon Wilson's 8.19 and Jalen McGee's 8.25.
In the non-hurdle version of the 60m, Aaron Charles grabbed third place of 96-entrant field with a qualifying 6.78 dash.
Later in the day of the 89-entrant 200m field, Charles led another strong Barton showing by edging out teammate Elijah Mosley by .005 seconds for third place as Charles clocked a 21.552 while Mosley had an official 21.557.
Capping the long day the 4x400m relay team made its debut with a runner-up placing as the tandem of Charles, Mosley, McGee, and Almond Small clocked a nation's current fourth best 3:15.63 time.
Barton's next meet is rapidly approaching as the Cougars head south to Lubbock, Texas, participating in the three-day Texas Tech Open and Multis held January 26-28.
Complete Washburn Rust Buster results
Complete Barton Results:
(* = 1st Time competing in event; PR/PB = Personal record/best; NQ = Nationally Qualified)
60m Hurdles: 3rd Devory Pinnock (NQ 8.17), 4th Daqwon Wilson (PR NQ 8.19), 5th Jalen McGee (PR NQ 8.25)
60m Dash: 3rd Aaron Charles (NQ *6.78), 25th Malachi Carter (7.03), 27th Marlon Wordlow (7.04), 51st Noah Kincade (*7.21), 67th Massee Lindaye (7.33), 73rd Tayshaun Williams (*7.40)
Mile Run: 21st Theo Leveque (*4:28.44), 33rd Ian Doss (PR 4:38.00)
400m Dash: 5th Almond Small (*49.42), 10th Manjot Singh (*50.27)
800m Dash: 8th Fabian Campbell (NQ *1:54.75), 26th Ian Doss (*2:03.04), 29th Bryant Galvez (*2:03.82), 31st Brandon Nguyen (*2:04.21), 36th Tajay Grant (PR 2:07.06), 42nd Demetrius Terrell (2:10.91)
200m Dash: 3rd Aaron Charles (NQ *21.552), 4th Elijah Mosley (NQ 21.557), 33rd Noah Kincade (*22.70), 50th Joshua Koffi (*23.26)
Weight Throw: 4th Brandon Lloyd (16.92m, 55-06.25 *Already NQ), 6th Christopher Crawford (PB 16.30m, 53-05.75 *Already NQ), 10th Christopher Young (PB 15.07m, 49-05.50)
Triple Jump: 5th Jalen McGee (14.12m, 46-04.00)
Shot Put: 1st Christopher Young (PB 17.48m, 57-04.25 *Already NQ **7th best program history ***Meet Record), 2nd Brandon Lloyd (17.36m, 56-11.50 *Already NQ), 3rd Christopher Crawford (16.39m, 53-09.25 *Already NQ)
3000m: 9th Theo Leveque (NQ *8:38.62 *10th best program history)
4x400m Relay: 2nd SB NQ 3:15.63 (Aaron Charles, Elijah Mosley, Jalen McGee, Almond Small), 16th 3:28.32 (Manjot Singh, Daqwon Wilson, Devory Pinnock, Marlon Wordlow)