Red Raider Men Win Back-To-Back Titles, Women Claim First Conference Title in Program History

By Keenan Gray of DyeStat

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Texas Tech completed a sweep of the men's and women's team titles on its home track at the Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championships on Saturday at the Texas Tech Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, Texas. 

The men's team won its second consecutive team title, fourth in the last six seasons, scoring 130 points, and the women's team captured the program's first conference title - indoor or outdoor - with 113.5 points. 

Malachi Snow picked up the lone individual title for Texas Tech on the men's side, breaking a meet record in the 60-meter hurdles final in 7.52 seconds. Snow added a second-place finish in the 60 meters final, running 6.60.

Snow earned two of the Red Raiders' 12 top-three podium finishes: Antoine Andrews (60 meter hurdles, second; men's 60 meters, third), Garison Breeding (triple jump, second), Trey Wilson (shot put, second), Shaemar Uter (400 meters, third), Bradford Jennings (high jump, third), Stacy Brown Jr. (triple jump, third), Sean Gribble (pole vault, third), Zaid Latif (long jump, third) and Konnor Wood (weight throw, third).

Shelby Frank, Naomi Krebs, Fanny Arendt, Tamiah Washington and Temitope Adeshina racked up four individual wins to lead the Texas Tech women.

Frank, a transfer from Minnesota who was last year's NCAA runner-up in the women's weight throw, won the weight throw a with a meet record mark of 23.32 meters (76-6.25).

Krebs defeated Central Florida's Adaobi Tabugdo in the women's 60 meters hurdles final by a margin of 7.96 to 7.99.

Arendt hung on to win the women's 800 meters in 2:02.34, beating Iowa State's Makayla Clark in 2:02.56.

Washington jumped 13.50 meters (44-3.50) to win the women's triple jump. 

Adeshina cleared 1.90 meters (6-2.75) to claim the women's high jump title.

Success Umukoro (60 meters, second), Brianna Howard (200 meters, second), Tonie-Ann Forbes (60 meters hurdles, third) and Busola Akinduro (triple jump, third) added to the Red Raider podium finishers on the women's side.

Baylor's Nathaniel Ezekiel posted the fastest 400 meters time in the NCAA this season, breaking a meet record in the men's final in 44.74, beating Arizona State's Jayden Davis in an NCAA #2 time of 44.95.

Iowa State's Rachel Joseph earned the women's 400 meters title in 50.88.

Oklahoma State's Brian Musau broke the meet record in the men's 3,000 meters, running 7:45.79. Ryan Schoppe finished second for the Cowboys in 7:47.79.

Laban Kipkemboi (4:08.63) and Fouad Messaoudi (4:09.72) also finished first and second for the Cowboys in the men's mile. 

BYU's Riley Chamberlain finished a strong second half of the women's mile to win the individual crown in 4:31.78.

West Virginia's Ceili McCabe and Joy Naukot went 1-2 in the women's 3,000 meters, with McCabe winning in 9:07.56 and Naukot following in 9:08.65.

Houston's John Adesola took the win in the men's 60 meters final, running 6.59.

TCU's Indya Mayberry won the women's 60 meters and 200 meters in 7.18 and 22.42, respectively.

Houston's Antrea Mita jumped 2.22 meters (7-3.25) to capture the men's high jump title.

On Friday night, BYU's Casey Clinger and Lexy Halladay-Lowry swept the men's and women's 5,000 meters races, with Clinger running a meet record 13:29.61 and Halladay-Lowry running 15:32.52.

The West Virginia women ran a meet record in the distance medley relay in 11:09.42. Oklahoma State claimed the men's distance medley relay title in 9:30.88.

Baylor's Molly Haywood cleared 4.61 meters (15-1.50) for a meet record in the women's pole vault.