March 14-15, 2008

Complete Results

WILMINGTON, N.C.—The St. Andrews Presbyterian College men’s track & field team set an incredible 17 individual personal records at the 2008 Seahawk Invitational hosted by UNC Wilmington on Friday and Saturday at the Greene Track Complex.

The Knights, competing in their second competition of the season, also set four school records while going up against a field primarily made up of NCAA Division I competitors and universities.

Junior Mitch Cooper (Virginia Beach, Va.) won the 3,000-meter steeplechase for the second time in as many tries this year. Cooper beat his old school record by 27 seconds to win the event with a blazing time of 9:46.55. Three other Knights added PR’s in the steeplechase including freshman Doug Holt (Toms River, N.J.) with a time of 10:45.00; sophomore James Lloyd (Lusby, Md.) with a speed of 11:00.83; and senior Patrick Hogan (Denton, N.C.) at 11:53.25.

Senior thrower Caelan Garner (Rameur, N.C.) may have had the most impressive day for St. Andrews. Garner broke his school record distance in the javelin throw by almost six meters. Garner’s toss of 45.58m was good for fifth place out of 14 competitors and the top distance out of Division II entrants.

Garner also set a new PR in the shot put with a length of 10.52-meters.

Sophomore Matthew Rogers (Eatonton, Ga.) concluded the throwing events with an eight place distance of 23.84m in the hammer throw and a 14th place length of 29.63m in the discus throw.

Cooper finished third overall out of 21 distance runners in the 5,000-meter run with another school record time of 15:09.15. Cooper was just 12 seconds behind the race winner who was from a D-I institution. A quartet of Knights followed Cooper in the 5,000m run (all setting PR’s). Sophomore Pedro Tapia Jr. (Sanford, N.C.) crossed the finish line in 15:38.20; Holt clocked in at 16:46.52; Lloyd finished in 17:08.48; and Hogan followed in 18:04.88.

Tapia, who finished fifth in the 5,000, added his second top-10 finish with an eighth place result in the 1,500-meter run. Tapia was the top-D-II runner in the event with a speed of 4:12.00 (PR).

Freshman Josh Pickett (Asheville, N.C.) provided two person record times with an eighth place finish in the 800-meter run (2:04.16) and a time of 4:19.87 in the 1,500. Sophomore Brad McKee (Kings Mountain, N.C.) also competed in the 800 with a time of 2:14.60.

Junior Charles Phillips (Decatur, Ga.) was third Knight to break a school record by shattering the 400-meter dash time by over six seconds with a smoking time of 52:77.

Phillips also competed in two jumping events posting a distance of 12.11-meters in the triple jump and a length of 6.08m in the long jump. Sophomore Cameron Cofield (Chesapeake, Va.) also jumped in both competitions springing to a PR distance of 12.31m in the triple jump while tallying a distance of 6.05m in the long jump.

St. Andrews has three straight Division I hosted competitions on their schedule as they next battle in the Western Carolina Invitational (Cullowhee, N.C.) on Friday & Saturday, March 28-29.