TRACK AND FIELD

A year after Troy Track and field placed 16 Trojans on the outdoor track and field All-Sun Belt Team, with seven punching their ticket to NCAA Preliminaries, the Trojans look to run towards new heights in 2022. Last spring, at the Sun Belt Outdoor Track and field Championships, the Trojans turned in 12 podium performances, including five gold medal finishes. Still, the awards didn’t stop there as the Trojans placed nine athletes on the indoor track and field All-Sun Belt team highlighted by six first-team selections. Troy will look to break more records in 2022 as Troy set a new program record at the 2021 Sun Belt Indoor championships with a 90-point output at the meet. The Trojans finished in third place at the championships as a team. The Trojans are led by Director of Track & Field Marc, who enters his eighth season as the Director of Track & Field/Cross Country in 2021-22. Over his time here at Troy Davis has accumulated 18 Sun Belt Conference Champions, 89 All-Conference Performers, 72 School Records since 2015, 3 All Americans Recorded top finishes in school history at Sun Belt Indoor and Outdoor Championships for Men and Women over the past three years Track and field star and Trojan women freshman of the year Gracie Booher returns after breaking the school record in the 10,000m with a time of 35:43:63. After receiving the Bronze last year, SBC Championships, sophomore Cole Stewarts has his sights on more medals. The Trojans will see a plethora of new faces this upcoming year as they see 21 new athletes join this year’s Trojan squad. Earlier in the week, the Trojans saw two new signings already during the early signing period as Ethan Womack joined the Trojans from Hewitt-Trussville High School in Trussville, AL, is a decathlete, and Jasai Taylor comes from Richmond Hill High School in Richmond Hill, GA, and his event is the hurdles. He is the current Student Government Association president, but George Maxwell is also a part of the Trojan Track and Field team in his second year running the mid-distance event for the Trojans.

Former Troy Track & Field athlete Gemma Finch recently announced she would continue her track and field career running professionally for Atlanta Track Club Elite. During her time at Troy, Finch won seven Sun Belt Gold medals, was named the 2020 Troy Female Athlete of the Year, is the school record holder in the 800m with a time of 2:02.81, and qualified for the 2021 NCAA Championship in Eugene, Oregon where she finished 20th. The Track and field season will culminate in Lafayette, Louisiana, with the Sun Belt Championship beginning on May 12 and running through the 14th to wrap up the year.

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