Women's Final Results
Men's Final Results
HOUSTON, TEXAS – Doing it in two different ways, Cincinnati’s women and Houston’s men both won back-to-back American Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field championships at the Carl Lewis Complex on the campus of the University of Houston.
Houston brought home its second-straight men’s title with 181.5 points, 45 points ahead of second place UConn who finished with 136.5 points. Memphis came in third at 112 followed by East Carolina (109), Tulsa (98), Cincinnati (85.5), USF (47.5) and Tulane (38).
Houston owned the track on the final day winning six of the 10 events. Eli Hall won both the men’s 100m (10.19) and the 200m in 19.96, which was a wind-aided meet record with a helping wind of 2.1m/s, just over the allowable wind of 2.0m/s. The Cougars swept both the 100m and the 200m with Cameron Burrell and Mario Burke finishing second and third in the 100m and Jacarias Martin and Burke going two-three in the 200m.
Amere Lattin took home the top spot in both the men’s 110m hurdles and the 400m hurdles with a 14.03 in the 110 and a 50.95 in the 400. The Cougars also swept both relays winning the 4x100m relay in a meet record time of 38.70 and taking home the 4x400m title in 3:08.47.
The Cougars also got 10 points from Jared Kerr in the triple jump after the junior, competing in his first triple jump competition, jumped 15.77 meters in his second-to-last jump to just edge out UConn’s Malik Snead (15.65m) and Ivan Nyemeck (15.28m).
Hall was named Most Outstanding Men’s Track Performer collecting four gold medals in the meet.
The Most Outstanding Men’s Field Performer was Cincinnati’s Macklin Tudor. On top of winning shot put earlier in the meet, Tudor took home discus gold with a meet record 59.05m. He was followed by East Carolina’s Adam Manns (54.98m) and Rafael Vallery of Memphis who threw a 53.63.
The men’s pole vault once again belonged to Tudor’s teammate Adrian Valles. Valles won his third-consecutive outdoor pole vault title clearing 5.21m, ahead of USF’s David Bell (5.11m) and Tulane’s Caleb Bertrand (5.01m).
In the last field event decided on Sunday, Jordan Wesner of Memphis cleared 2.20m in the high jump to beat East Carolina’s Jonte Leaston and Houston’s Colin George who both cleared 2.05m.
As expected, Tulsa won both the 1,500m and 5,000m as Marc Scott ran a 3:52.43 in the 1,500 and Luke Traynor’s 14:20.19 in the 5,000 led the way as the Golden Hurricane took the first four spots in that distance.
Tulane freshman Ryamond Kibet won the 400m in a meet record time of 45.84 and the 800m belonged to East Carolina’s Stefano Migliorati who finished in 1:49.49.
The women’s competition was won in the field events by the Cincinnati Bearcats with 138 points. Cincinnati won by the largest margin in conference history in the women’s competition beating second-place UConn (107) by 31 points. East Carolina came in third with 104.5 points while UCF took home fourth-place gathering 99.5 points over the three days. SMU (96), Memphis (72), Houston (70), Tulane (66), Tulsa (38), USF (21) and Temple (6), round out the rest of the team scores.
Annette Echikunwoke, the 2017 Women’s Most Outstanding Field Performer, brought home two wins (hammer throw and shot put) and a fourth-place finish in the discus with a mark of 47.42m.
In the women’s high jump, Loretta Blaut, the 2017 Indoor high jump champion, broke a meet record with a clearance of 1.77m and was joined on the podium by teammate Naomi Urbano who finished in third clearing 1.68m. East Carolina’s Lauren Lubarski took second with a top clearance of 1.74m.
The Bearcats also got big performances on the track, sweeping the relays. Cincinnati won the 4x100m relay in a time of 44.33 and the 4x400m relay with a time of 3:36.87.
Bryana Robinson, who ran in both relays, also took home gold in the 400m with a time of 53.31, edging out Dominque Chatman of Memphis (53.34) and UCF’s Ashley Jocelyn (53.83).
There was a tie for Women’s Most Outstanding Track Performer as both Tulane’s Jessica Duckett and UConn’s Emily Durgin finished the meet with two gold medals. Duckett swept the hurdles, running a 13.37 in the 100m hurdles and a meet record 57.82 in the 400m hurdles. Durgin, who won the 10,000m on Friday night, held of UCF’s Anne-Marie Blaney again to take the 5,000m in a time of 16:33.94.
Durgin’s teammate Susan Aneno took home gold in the women’s 800-meter, pulling away in the last half lap to finish in a time of 2:04.97. SMU won the other track events Sunday night with Holly Archer taking first in the 1,500m in a meet record 4:22.36, just ahead of UCF’s Blaney who came in at 4:23.22, Chelsea Francis, who set a meet record of 11.34 in the 100m dash, and Latessa Johnson who won the 200m with a time of 23.10.
In the Sunday field events, Tulane swept the women’s pole vault with Alyssa Applebee clearing 4.24m and teammates Mary Carson Pitts and Rebekah Markel each clearing 4.04m. East Carolina’s Mohogany Baker won the discus with a throw of 50.56m followed by Memphis’s Nina De Poorter (49.24m) and UConn’s Divine Oladipo (49.15m).
The triple jump was won by Chardae Greenlee who took her second-straight title with a mark of 12.58m. Cincinnati freshman Irati Mitxelena finished second (12.37m) and UConn’s Christine Donat took third with a leap of 12.26m.
Women’s Final Team Rankings
Men’s Final Team Rankings
Women’s Co-Most Outstanding Track Performers
Women’s Most Outstanding Field Performer
Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year
Men’s Outstanding Track Performer
Men’s Outstanding Field Performer
Men’s Coaching Staff of the Year
The top three athletes in each event are named to the All-Conference Team.