The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women’s track team finished seventh Sunday at the Southern Conference Indoor Championships hosted by East Tennessee State University in Johnson City.
UTC’s Kennedy Thomson came close to all-conference and all-freshman team honors, placing fourth with a time of 2 minutes, 17.79 seconds in the 800-meter finals. Also in the top 10 was UTC’s 4×400 relay team – all freshmen – with a time of 4:05.98 for eighth place.
“Overall we had very good performances and several PRs for our young team,” Mocs coach Andy Meyer said in a UTC release. “We have a long way to go, but we have a strong freshman group that showed promise this weekend.”
Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences’ Patrick Taylor heads for the finish line in the 100 meter dash for the win at MTSU during Spring Fling in Murfreesboro in 2013.ETSU’s Patrick Taylor from Arts & Sciences won the Heath Whittle Award as the men’s most outstanding athlete after tallying 25 points in the meet to help the Buccaneers finish third with 137 points, behind Western Carolina (170) and Samford (155).
Taylor won the men’s long jump Saturday with a leap of 7.31 meters (24 feet, 3.75 inches), won the 200-meter dash Sunday with a time of 21.88 and was fourth in the 60 (6.90).