The 79th Annual Hoover Wright-Barbara Jacket Prairie View Relays took place at Blackshear Stadium March 29, with the men and women teams performing well as they prepared for Texas Relays.
Seven high school and five university teams participated this year, and in the perfect setting of the Panther home crowd, the men’s team took first place in all but three events. In that, the athletes put up solid numbers for the middle of outdoor season.
In the sprint races, Chris Taylor won the 110m dash with a time of 10.61 and Jarryd Gray took second place in the 200m dash with a 22.22. The mid-distance and hurdle races belonged to PV, as Daniel Anderson and Tyrown Russell capitalized in the 400m and 800m races, running a 48.33 and 1:54.34 respectively. Jason Mitchell also won the hurdle races, the 110m high hurdles and the 400m intermediate, by running a 14.19 and 54.19.
The 4x100m and 4x400m relay teams that consisted of runners who will most likely perform in Austin this weekend took first place as well by running a 41.67 and 3:18.09.
Assistant coach Chris Clay was pleased with the team’s performances, and knows that since many of the athletes performed their best individual performances, it will help the relay teams as a whole for the meets to come.
The women had a first place tie with Texas Southern.
Shonteria Johnson won both of the sprint races with times of 12.60 and 25.50. LaQuita Alexander and Yolanda Chatmon finished in first place in the mid-distance races, with times of 56.86 and 2:27.78 respectively. In the 100m hurdles Rhonda Tucker won in nice fashion with a time of 14.18.
Both teams plan to make a stellar showing in Austin this weekend, April 3-5, for the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at the University of Texas.