Tigers Conclude Clemson Opener with 17 PRs and Eight Top 10 Performances

CLEMSON OPENER FLASH RESULTS

CLEMSON, S.C. – Clemson’s track & field program concluded the Clemson Opener on Friday with 17 personal records, eight performances that cracked Clemson’s all-time top 10 lists, 31 top three finishes and eight wins.

Kimeka Smith won the women’s shot put with a throw of 15.06m / 49’–05.00”. Her mark placed her seventh on Clemson’s women’s indoor shot put all-time list and set a new freshman record in the event, previously held by Olympian and Clemson Hall of Famer Jamine Moton.

Grant Holliday recorded a fourth-place finish in the men’s 300m (32.86 seconds), the second-fastest performance in program history.

In the women’s 300m, five of the eight competitors set personal records. Highlights included Shanque Williams (third place, 37.67 seconds, now third all-time on Clemson’s indoor women’s 300m all-time top 10 list), Aniyah Kitt (fifth place, 37.92 seconds), Shantae Foreman (sixth place, 37.99 seconds, now eighth all-time on Clemson’s indoor women’s 300m all-time top 10 list), Sade Gray (seventh place, 38.37 seconds, now ninth all-time on Clemson’s indoor women’s 300m all-time top 10 list) and Oneka Wilson (13th place, 40.02 seconds).

 

Clemson Opener Full Results | Track Events

Men’s 60m prelims

• Cameron Bobcombe (unattached) – Second Place (qualified for finals) | 6.74 seconds
• Ayomide Oyetunji – Third Place (won heat to qualify for finals) | 6.80 seconds
• Jalen Johnson – Seventh Place (won heat to qualify for finals) | 6.84 seconds
• Jacob Carruthers – 15^th Place | 6.98 seconds
• Dillon Kaulback – 32^nd Place | 7.63 seconds

Men’s 60m final

• Bobcombe (unattached) – Second Place | 6.71 seconds
• Oyetunji – Fifth Place | 6.76 seconds (PR)
• Johnson – Seventh Place | 6.80 seconds

Women’s 60m prelims

• Makhaila Mills – Second Place (won heat to qualify for finals) | 7.40 seconds
• Aleksandra Stoilova – Fifth Place (won heat to qualify for finals) | 7.50 seconds
• McKenzie Calloway – Sixth Place (qualified for finals) | 7.50 seconds
• Tia Stapleton – 12^th Place | 7.72 seconds
• Wilson – 18^th Place | 7.77 seconds

Women’s 60m final

• Mills – Second Place | 7.41 seconds
• Stoilova – Fifth Place | 7.52 seconds
• Calloway – Sixth Place | 7.53 seconds

Women’s 60m hurdles prelims

• Briana Campbell – Sixth Place (qualified for finals) | 8.54 seconds
• Aysia Fingall – 10^th Place | 8.66 seconds
• Emma Fortuna – 23^rd Place | 9.72 seconds

Women’s 60m hurdles final

• Campbell – Third Place | 8.31 seconds

Men’s 60m hurdles prelims

• Sharvis Simmonds – Fourth Place (qualified for finals) | 7.98 seconds

Men’s 60m hurdles final

• Simmonds – Sixth Place | 8.01 seconds

Men’s 200m

• Oyetunji – First Place | 20.98 seconds (PR)
• Ian Johnson – Second Place | 21.10 seconds

Women’s 200m

• Calloway – Third Place | 23.83 seconds

Men’s 300m

• Holliday – Fourth Place | 32.86 seconds (second on the Clemson men’s indoor 300m top 10 list)
• Jalen Johnson – Sixth Place | 33.37 seconds (PR)
• Daniel Kidd – Ninth Place | 33.88 seconds (PR)
• Kevin Collins – 10^th Place | 33.89 seconds
• Brayden Tidwell – 16^th Place | 34.46 seconds
• Simmonds – 19^th Place | 34.62 seconds (PR)

Women’s 300m

• Williams – Third Place | 37.67 seconds (PR, third on the Clemson women’s indoor 300m top 10 list)
• Kitt – Fifth Place | 37.92 seconds (PR)
• Foreman – Sixth Place | 37.99 seconds (PR, eighth on the Clemson women’s indoor 300m top 10 list)
• Gray – Seventh Place | 38.37 seconds (PR, ninth on the Clemson women’s indoor 300m top 10 list)
• Campbell – Ninth Place | 39.03 seconds
• Stoilova – 10^th Place | 39.29 seconds
• Wilson – 13^th Place | 40.02 seconds (PR)
• Fingall – 14^th Place | 40.08 seconds

Women’s 400m

• Sophia Curtis — Fourth | 57.75 seconds
• Eliana Henriques — Sixth | 58.04 seconds

Men’s 600m

• Jayden Brown – First Place | 1:17.75 seconds (PR, fourth on the Clemson men’s indoor 600m top 10 list)

Women’s 600m

• Danya Spoor – Second Place | 1:31.89 seconds
• Brynn Buelow – Fourth Place | 1:35.23 seconds

Men’s 800m

• Victor Ndiwa – First Place | 1:55.42
• Gideon Kiplimo – Second Place | 1:56.02

Men’s 1000m

• Ndiwa – Second Place | 2:29.39 seconds (PR)

Women’s 1000m

• Shaneal Giddings – Second Place | 2:52.71 seconds
• Natalie O’Connor – Fifth Place | 3:07.21 seconds

Men’s 3000m

• Daniel Sullivan – Fifth Place | 8:38.39
• Anderson Boetsch – Eighth Place | 8:44.29

Women’s 3000m

• Madelyn Dinneen – Second Place | 9:39.13
• Madison Timms – Third Place | 9:48.25 (PR)
• Elizabeth Healy – 12^th Place | 10:49.71

Men’s 5000m

• Garrett Brown – First Place | 14:34.83
• Brenden Gomez – Second Place | 14:42.94
• Trey Sullivan – Fourth Place | 14:55.09
• Dylan Nolan – Seventh Place | 15:01.27 (PR)

Men’s 4x400m Relay

• Clemson A (Holliday, Kweyei, Kevin Collins & J. Brown) – Second Place | 3:07.92
• Clemson C (Tidwell, Jalen Johnson, Ian Johnson & Serra) – Seventh Place | 3:18.07

Women’s 4x400m Relay

• Clemson A (Williams, Giddings, Kitt & Gray) – First Place | 3:36.91
• Clemson C (Fingall, Stapleton, Henriques & Calloway) – Third Place | 3:46.69
• Clemson B (Curtis, Foreman, Campbell & Stoilova) – Fourth Place | 3:47.88
• Clemson D (Buelow, Wilson, O’Connor & Spoor) – Eighth Place | 3:55.07

 

Clemson Opener Full Results | Field Events

Men’s shot put

• Charles Bissonnette – Third Place | 15.99m / 52’ – 05.50”

Women’s shot put

• Smith – First Place | 15.06m / 49’ – 05.00” (seventh on the Clemson women’s indoor shot put top 10 list and set new freshman record)
• Christianne Akintayo – Second Place | 13.73m / 45’ – 00.50”
• Katie Kelzenberg – Fifth | 11.94m / 39’ – 02.25”

Men’s pole vault

• Drake Risser – Fourth Place | 4.95m / 16’ – 02.75”
• Matthew Phillips – Seventh Place | 4.65m / 15’ – 03.00”

Women’s pole vault

• Kirstin Hoffman – Third Place | 3.79m / 12’ – 05.25”
• Ava Allen – Sixth Place | 3.64m / 11’ – 11.25”

Men’s high jump

• Jacob Carruthers – First Place | 2.11m / 06’ – 11.00” (PR)

Women’s high jump

• Danielle Noble – Second Place | 1.71m / 05’ – 07.25”
• Spoor – Tied Seventh Place | 1.56m / 05’ – 01.25”
• Fortuna – Tied Seventh Place | 1.56m / 05’ – 01.25”

Men’s long jump

• Divine Aniamaka (jumped unattached) – 15^th Place | 6.45m / 21’ – 02.75”

Women’s long jump

• Foreman – Second Place | 6.05m / 19’ – 10.25”
• Aiya Webb – Third Place | 5.94m / 19’ – 06.00”
• Stapleton – Fifth Place | 5.74m / 18’ – 10.00”
• Henriques – 18^th Place | 5.12m / 16’ – 09.75”

Men’s weight throw

• Matthew Auble – First Place | 21.43m / 70’ – 03.75” (PR, second on the Clemson men’s indoor weight throw top 10 list, Auble already had the second spot, improving from 21.07m)

Women’s weight throw

• Kendra Dye – Second Place | 20.46m / 67’ – 01.50” (PR, fifth on the Clemson women’s indoor weight throw top 10 list, Dye previously ranked sixth and moved up one spot from her previous throw of 19.03m / 62’ – 05.25”)
• Christina Barnett – Sixth Place | 15.64m / 51’ – 03.50”

Men’s triple jump

• Tyler Mathes – Fifth Place | 14.01m / 45’ – 11.75”

Women’s triple jump

• Curtis – Third Place | 12.26m / 40’ – 02.75”

 

Up Next

Silvia Jelelgo will be competing in the Boston University Sharon Colyear-Danville Season Opener women’s 5,000m invitational race tomorrow, Dec. 6. Starting at approximately 3:52 p.m., the race can be streamed with a FloTrack account HERE and followed through a live results link HERE.

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