BATON ROUGE – Christyan Sampy, Nu’uausala Tuilefano and the men’s 4×100 relay all took home first place in their respective events on Saturday at the Joe May Invitational at LSU.
Sampy started the day breaking his own meet record in the men’s pole vault. He recorded a 5.41 mark besting his 5.31 height from 2021. Tuilefano also earned first in the women’s shot put throwing a 16.29m on her first throw of the day.
A team of Marcus Wright, Jordan Booker, Edward Sumler IV and Shaun Maswanganyi took the top spot in the men’s 4×100 meter with a time of 39.33.
Despite not earning the top spot in the their respective events four other athletes recorded times that would have also broken meet records. For the men, Devin Vallejo-Bannister and Brandon Seagreaves broke the meet record in the men’s 1500-meter. Vallejo-Bannister finished in second at 3:49.88 and Seagreaves came in fifth at 3:52.84. For the women, Cecilia Tamayo-Garza finished in 23.58 in the women’s 200-meter for sixth while Michelle Mayer recorded a 2:16.97 in the women’s 800-meter finishing in seventh.
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