NASHVILLE— The 2025 outdoor season has been a consistent build up for the Murray State Racers and that pace continued over the weekend at the Music City Challenge in Nashville.
The meet was the Racers’ final warm up for the Missouri Valley Conference Championships (May 17-18) in Carbondale, Illinois at the Southern Illinois Lew Hertzog Complex.
Diamonasia Taylor has the best effort in the High Jump in the MVC with a leap of 1.80 meters at Indiana State two weeks ago and, at Vandy, she made a height of 1.75 to win the event over Ally Beneke of Tennessee Tech.
Serena Blackwood placed second in the 100-meter dash at 11.72 seconds in Nashville and has the sixth time in The Valley, while teammate Faith Bostick has the fourth-best time at 11.58 from the Louisville event.
Murray State’s Ruth Kimutai smashed her 3000 steeplechase record by 20 seconds and she goes into The Valley Championships with the third-fastest time in the league at 10:31.57.
Murray State also performed well with a third-place finish in the 4×100 relay when Alyssa Williams, Serena Blackwood, Amahrie Harsh and Faith Bostick placed third at 45.90. The quartet has the fourth-fastest time this spring in The Valley at 45.70 at the Louisville event.
Racer Shelby Melvin did not run at the Vandy meet, but enters The Valley Championships with the third-fastest time in the 400 hurdles at 59.77 in South Carolina in early April.
