Track & Field Teams Set For 2025 SCAC Championships This Weekend

Seguin, Texas – The Centenary men’s and women’s track and field teams will compete in the 2025 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships this weekend beginning on Friday and concluding on Sunday at Bulldog Stadium.

The three-day event, hosted by SCAC member Texas Lutheran University, features the Ladies and Gents along with the host Bulldogs, Concordia University, Colorado College, the University of Dallas, LeTourneau University, McMurry University, University of the Ozarks, Schreiner University, Southwestern University, the University of St. Thomas, and Trinity University.

Championship Central: https://scacsports.prestosports.com/tournament/spring/track_and_field/25championships/index

Complete Meet Schedule: https://scacsports.prestosports.com/tournament/spring/track_and_field/25championships/Schedule_of_Events.pdf

Live results and live video are available for the meet and links can be found in the “Championship Central”.

Sophomore Christian Cormier (Lafayette, La.) has been one of the top competitors in the conference all season as he has been named the SCAC Men’s Track Athlete of the Week (April 22) and Co-Track Athlete of the Week on March 18. Cormier has the 12^th fastest time all season in the conference in the 100 meters (10.75) and 13^th fastest in the 200 meters (22.00).

Freshman Phillip Hughes (Bossier City, La.) ran a time of 51.68 in the 400 meters at the Jim Mize Invitational on April 19 which is the 24^th fastest time in the event all season in the league while freshman Clayton Hancock (Buna, Texas) has the 25^th fastest time (51.82) which he ran in the Carl Knight Invitational on April 12.

The Gents’ team of Cormier, junior Obadiah Butler (Crowley, La.), freshman Dwayne Mills Jr. (Slidell, La.), and freshman Jay Scott (Slidell, La.) own the eighth-fastest time (42.44) in the 4 x 100 relay which they ran in the Belhaven University Invitational on March 22. Hancock, sophomore Herman Pride (Baton Rouge, La.), Scott, and sophomore Bryan Washington (Wylie, Texas) ran the ninth-fastest time this season in the league in the 4 x 400 relay (3:37.90) recorded in the Carl Knight Invitational.

Scott is 12^th in the long jump (6.37m) in the conference this season which he accomplished at the Jim Mize Invitational and Pride is 24^th (5.97m) which he tallied at the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet in March and Scott’s 12.97m in the triple jump recorded at the Belhaven Invitational ranks ninth in the conference.  

On the women’s side, freshman Gabrielle Malagarie (Lafayette, La.)posted the conference’s 13^th-best mark this season in the high jump (1.40m) in the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet in March – the Ladies’ opening meet of the season. The rookie also has the 21^st-best score in the long jump (4.66m) in that same meet.

Freshman Grayson Shugart (McKinney, Texas) ranks 18^th in the long jump (4.79m) set at the Cowboy Relays Bob Hayes Louisiana Challenge hosted by McNeese State University last month, the Ladies’ top score of the season in the event. Shugart also posted the 10^th-best score in the triple jump in the conference this season, with a mark of 9.90m in the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet.

Sophomore Mackenzie Haley (Orange, Texas) is 22^nd in the long jump (4.62m), right behind Malagarie, which she recorded in the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet. Sophomore Ella Walton (Lafayette, La.) is 22^nd in the discus (27.31m) after throwing that distance at the Jim Mize Invitational on April 19.

See where the Ladies and Gents rank within the conference and nationally at the links below:

MEN: TFRRS | 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Qualifying List

WOMEN: TFRRS | 2025 NCAA Division III Outdoor Qualifying List

See the complete Gents’ season schedule here: https://gocentenary.com/sports/mtrack/2024-25/schedule 

See the complete Ladies’ season schedule here: https://gocentenary.com/sports/wtrack/2024-25/schedule

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