Coppin State University’s men’s and women’s track and field teams competed at the Kehoe Twilight Meet hosted by the University of Maryland on May 2. Solomon Hammond won the men’s 100-meter dash and contributed to a season-best performance in the men’s 4×100-meter relay.
The meet saw Hammond finishing first in the 100 meters with a time of 10.65 seconds, while teammate Cole Schlotterbeck placed second at 10.82 seconds. Schlotterbeck also secured third place in the 200 meters with a time of 21.49 seconds, and Timothy Frederick finished third in both the 200 meters (21.89) and the 400 meters (47.88).
Hammond, Schlotterbeck, Chris Adekoya, and Iloba Godspower formed Coppin State’s gold medal-winning men’s 4×100-meter relay team that posted a season-best time of 39.66 seconds—the fourth-fastest mark in school history—qualifying them for NCAA Regionals later this month. The team’s ‘B’ squad also took first place in the men’s 4×400-meter relay with a time of 3:24.09.
Freshman Sean Williams earned third place overall in the high jump with a leap of two meters and one centimeter (6 feet, seven inches). Asa Francis set a personal record in the men’s 800 meters at one minute, fifty point zero five seconds, leading three other Eagles runners who completed that event.
On the women’s side, Gifty Oku led her teammates Benedicta Kwartemaa, Kyah La Fortuneand Danielle Wooten to second place overall in their own season-best performance for Coppin State’s women’s team’s relay events.
