LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Chapman Track & Field dominated as the team won 10 individual SCIAC Championships Sunday.
Mason Fara highlighted the day tying the SCIAC record in the 400 meter dash running a 46.55.
Ranging from dominating the individual sprint events, to the field events, the Panthers did it all. The women's team ended up finishing just four points behind Claremont-Mudd-Scripps to claim second place with 196 points.. The men's team ended up finishing top three behind just CMS and Pomona-Pitzer with 135 points.
Conference Champions
Women's 4x100 relay:
Kaylee Smith,
Khyra Stiner,
Makenna Lizarde and
Allie Kremer ran a blistering 46.72 to take the conference title.
Women's 4x400 relay:
Kaylee Smith,
Makenna Lizarde,
Proud Kitnitchiva and
Allie Kremer ran a 3:50.00.
Women's 1500 meter:
Annika Carlson won the race by just under five seconds with a time of 4:36.97.
Women's 5000 meter: Carlson once again won the race by over 11.1 seconds with a time of 17:27.58.
Men's 200 meter dash:
Mason Fara took the crown running a career best 21.09.
Men's 400 meter dash: Fara went back-to-back winning another conference time recording a 46.55. He won the race by over 2.3 seconds.
Women's 400 meter dash:
Allie Kremer and teammate
Kaylee Smith went one and two in the event. Kremer ran a blistering 56.70 coming in just 0.03 ahead of Smith who ran a 56.73.
Women's 400 meter hurdles:
Proud Kitnitchiva won the hurdles in dominating fashion to collect her second title of the evening in a 1:02.34.
Men's triple jump:
Isaac Robin won the event by leaping 14.16 meters which translates to just under 46 and a half feet.
Women's Discus throw:
Chloe Mitchell threw a career best 41.10 meters which translates to 134.8 feet.
All-SCIAC Finishers
In the men's javelin,
Nick Burton finished second throwing 54.84 meters.
In the men's decathlon,
Wyn Smoole and
Danny Johnson finished second and third. Smoole scored 6084 points while Johnson scored 5959 points.
In the men's shot put,
Sam Forst finished third throwing 14.28 meters.
In the women's heptathlon,
Kayla Kim finished third scoring 3595 points.
In the women's triple jump,
Regina O'Leary finished third jumping 10.94 meters.
In the women's shot put,
Eva Ndoye placed in second throwing 10.96 meters.
In the women's pole vault,
Samantha Daniels finished in second leaping 3.18 meters.
In the women's 100 meter dash,
Makenna Lizarde finished in second with a time of 12.29.
In the women's 200 meter dash,
Kaylee Smith finished in third with a time of 24.81.
In the women's 100 meter hurdles,
Khyra Stiner finished in second with a time of 15.09.
Program Records Broken
Kaylee Smith set a new program record going 24.81 in the 200 meter dash.
Annika Carlson set a new program record going 17:28.58 in the 5000 race.
Proud Kitnitchiva set a new record going 1:02.34 in the 400 meter hurdles.
Chloe Mitchell set a new record throwing 41.10 meters in the discus.
Mason Fara set a new program record going 21.09 in the 200 meter dash.
Fara also set a new program record going 46.55 in the 400 meter dash.
Lucas Turano set a new program record going 3:56.56 in the 1500 meter race.
Jonah Kim, Fara,
Nick Burton and
Wyn Smoole set a new record in the 4x100 meter relay going 41.31.
In the Decathlon,
Wyn Smoole scored 6084 points and
Danny Johnson scored 5959 points both breaking the old record.
When Kitnitchiva won the 400 meter hurdles crown, teammates crowded the senior star helping her up off the ground. She had collapsed immediately after the race from a bit of shock and exhaustion. As teammates patted her on the back and hugged her, assistant coach Tony Veney stood proudly over his team loudly echoing to Kitnitchiva, "Now that's how you run a race."
The team erupted in response. The moment becoming a rallying cry, as the Panthers went on to have one of the most dominant meets in recent memory.