BOONE, N.C. - The App State women's track and field team is headed to Mill Spring, N.C. for the UNC Asheville Collegiate Opener at Tryon International on Saturday. The meet will is slated to start at 10 a.m.
Meet Rewind
App State opened the indoor season at the Visit Winston-Salem College Kick-off at the JDL Fast Track in Winston-Salem, N.C. on Dec. 6. Highlighting the day's action was a new meet record of 3:45.76, set by the 4x400-meter relay quartet of junior
Nicole Wells, seniors
Damyja Alejandro-Ortiz and
Daye Talley, and junior
Jayla Adams. The previous meet record was 3:49.07, set in 2021 by Duke, and the new time was two seconds shy of the App State indoor 4x400-meter program record (3:43.85, set in 2023). Individually, Adams and Talley clocked times of 24.39 and 24.77 to place third and fifth, respectively, in the seeded section of the women's 200 meters.
Freshman
Alana Braxton placed first in both the women's triple jump (12.32m (40'5")) and women's long jump (5.87m (19' 3.25")). With a leap of 12.14m (39' 10"), fellow freshman
Ashlynn Wimberly placed second in the women's triple jump. With a clearance of 3.95m (12' 11.5"), senior
Ava Studney placed first in the women's pole vault.
On the track, junior
Kendall Johnson placed second in the women's 60 meters with a time of 7.50, which was 0.08 shy of her personal best and App State school record of 7.42. Stopping the clock at 2:18.09, senior
Addison Ollendick-Smith placed fourth in the women's 800 meters. She was seven seconds shy of her personal best of 2:11.13, which she set last winter to move to second all-time in the App State record book.
Ranked Mountaineers
Heading into Saturday's meet, six Mountaineers stand among the NCAA's top-30. The women's 4x400-meter relay squad of Wells, Alejandro-Ortiz, Talley, and Adams leads the Sun Belt and ranks fourth in the region as well as 19th nationally. Individually, Adams leads the Sun Belt, ranks eighth in the region, and stands 21st in the NCAA in the women's 200 meters.
Leading the SBC in the women's triple jump is Braxton, who also rounds out the region's top-five and checks in at 23rd nationally in the category. Braxton also stands second in the league in the women's long jump. Studney leads the conference and rounds out the region's top-five and the nation's top-30 in the women's pole vault. Ollendick-Smith and sophomore
Ella Battel take the SBC's top two spots in the women's 800 meters.
On Deck
The Mountaineers will head to Lexington, Va. for the VMI Team Challenge on Jan. 17. The meet will mark the first of four indoor meets the Mountaineers will appear at in the state of Virginia this winter.
