NORMAN, Okla. (Jan. 22, 2022) – If you're keeping count, that's now three times in as many meets this indoor track and field season in which
Aysha Robinson has equaled or broken Oklahoma Christian's record in the 60-meter dash.
Robinson, a junior from Round Rock, Texas,
won her preliminary heat on Saturday in Oklahoma's J.D. Martin Invitational at the Mosier Indoor Facility with a time of 7.68 seconds. In doing so, she dropped her own school record (set last week in the Washburn Rust Buster in Topeka, Kan.) by .05 of a second.
In OC's first meet of the season in December in Pittsburg, Kan., she tied
Lawanda Harvey's former school mark of 7.74 seconds.
On Saturday, she finished third among 34 sprinters in the preliminary round but chose not to run in the final for which she qualified. She's just .01 of a second from posting a NCAA Division II provisional qualifying time in the 60 meters.
Three Eagles competed in the 60 meters. Joining Robinson were sophomore
Bryah Davis of Cedar Hill, Texas, who finished 11th in a career-best time 7.82 seconds, and junior
Morgan Ray of Edmond, who took 31st in 8.77 seconds.
Ray also competed in the long jump, in which her mark of 16 feet, 1½ inches (4.91) put her 11th in the 16-woman field.
OC's only other runner on Saturday was freshman
Ruth Oguntope of Houston, who finished fifth of six women in the 600 yards with a time of 1:44.21.
The Eagles placed three throwers in the top 10 in the weight throw. Sophomore
Leah Oguntope of Houston took fourth out of 14 women with a top mark of 45 feet, 4½ inches (13.83 meters). Sophomore
Nikkita Addy of Moore was eighth at 43 feet, 7¼ inches (13.29 meters) – a career-best – while sophomore
Taelor Brown of Pawnee took ninth at 42 feet, 4¼ inches (12.91 meters).
In the shot put,
Leah Oguntope finished 12th out of 20 women with a throw of 37 feet, 5¼ inches (11.41 meters), Brown took 13th at 36 feet, 6¼ inches (11.13 meters) and freshman
Caitlyn Windell of East Peoria, Ill., was 18th at 30 feet, 2¾ inches (9.21 meters), her season-best mark.
The Eagles will compete next Friday and Saturday in the Washburn Open in Topeka.
