February 01, 2025

Auburn track & field closes out strong weekend at Bob Pollock Invitational

The Auburn track & field team continued its impressive indoor campaign competing Friday and Saturday at the Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina at the Clemson University Indoor Track.

CLEMSON, S.C. - The Auburn track & field team continued its impressive indoor campaign competing Friday and Saturday at the Bob Pollock Invitational in Clemson, South Carolina at the Clemson University Indoor Track.

The Tigers took home gold in four different events and had 12 collegiate personal best performances over the weekend.

Junior Alyssa Quinones-Mixon highlighted the showing of the pole vaulters for the women. Quinones-Mixon finished the event first overall with a collegiate best mark of 4.38m. Her new mark placed her second in the SEC.

Senior Maura Huwalt continued to show her dominance in the throwing events for the women. For the third time in three weeks, she finished weight throw first overall with a new PR of 22.27m. Also competing in weight throw, senior Adrienne Adams had a stellar performance. She placed second overall (20.00m) and moved up to fifth on Auburn’s top 10 in history.

Auburn swept the men’s and women’s shot put titles with the help of juniors Matthew Rueff and Megan Hague. Rueff claimed his best mark on the fourth throw of the event (18.18m).

On the women’s side, the Tigers took the top three sports in the event. Hague claimed gold (16.41m), Huwalt took silver with a season’s best toss (16.31m) and sophomore Marley Raikiwasa placed third (15.78,).

Senior Kyle Brown, junior John Leonard and senior Kyle Moison went second (21.84m), third (20.56m) and fourth (20.28m), respectively in weight throw for the men. Junior Seth Allen took ninth with a PR throw of 18.94m.

Racing in the 400m for the sprinters, senior Vimbayi Maisvorewa and sophomore Deborah Oke finished second and fourth in the event. Maisvorewa’s time of 52.21 placed her at No. 5 in the conference while Oke’s is No. 12 (53.44).

Maisvorewa and Oke also raced in the 200m, where the former ran an indoor collegiate best time of 23.97 and the latter crossed not far behind in 24.00.

Senior Chante Clinkscale continues to sign her name in the Auburn record books. Clinkscale delivered two PRs in the 60m dash. She ran a time of 7.26 in the preliminary round of the event and delivered a PR. She improved her time in the semis, where she won the round (7.23). Her time placed her ninth in Auburn’s record book. In the 200m, her indoor PR time of 23.49 was good enough for fourth place.

Sophomore Shonedra Richardson joined Clinkscale in the 200m. The Linden, Alabama native also earned a collegiate best in the preliminary round of the race (7.58).

Auburn’s sprints squad continues to blow through the competition. This weekend the trio of juniors Azeem Fahmi and Ian Myers and senior Dario Matatu competed in the 60m dash. In prelims Fahmi ran 6.70 with the second fastest time of the round. Myers wasn’t far behind, crossing in 6.71 and Matuau ran 6.74. All three advanced in the semifinals round.

In the next round, all three Tigers had season best times. Fahmi took silver (6.65), Myers finished in fourth (6.69) and Matau claimed seventh (6.73).

Matau finished fourth in the 200m (20.97), and Myers grabbed a collegiate-best time (21.07).

In the field events, senior Rhiannon Held and sophomore Brooke Walden also had solid performances in the pole vault. Held took fourth with a mark of 3.93m and Walden finished in sixth with a season’s best clearance of 3.93m.

Competing in his second meet for Auburn, freshman Asande Mthembu leapt out to 7.42m to take bronze in long jump.

Coming off solid performances last week, the distance crew continued to put up solid times. In the women’s mile, junior Hallie Porterfield finished the event ninth, crossing the line in 4:52.93. Freshman Mary Malone’s time of 5:10.84 earned her a new PR.

Junior Hannah Thuss delivered a season’s best time in the 3000m (10:09.70).

Running in the 3000m for the men, junior Hayden Judge picked up a new PR (8:18.00), good for tenth place. In the men’s 5000m, two Tigers finished in the top five. Senior Fuji Anday finished in second place (14:58.80) and junior Joseph Perry rounded out the top five with a time of (15:19.52).

Up Next

The Tigers will head to Bryan-College Station, Texas to compete at the Charlie Thomas Invitational, Feb. 7-8 at the R.A. “Murray” Fasken ‘38 Indoor Track & Field Facility.

Bob Pollock Invitational

Clemson University Indoor Track; Clemson, South Carolina

January 31 – February 1, 2025

Men’s Results

Weight Throw