On Saturday, Jan. 28, and on Friday, Feb. 3, Butler’s men’s and women’s track team kept the winning trend going.

At the Pitt State Invitational, Butler ran into some tough competition. Many Division 2 and other junior colleges came to compete. For the men, Andre Ewers finished third in the 60-meter final with the time of 6.71 seconds. Ewers also had the second fastest 200-meter time, running the race in 21.32 seconds. Quintavon Poole ran the fastest 400-meter time at 46.66 seconds. Butler’s 4×400-meter relay of Akeem Sirleaf, Jamoul Pierre, James Hambrick and Quintaveon Poole placed third with a time of 3:14 seconds. In the field, Tyson Penn placed third, jumping 2.10 (6 feet, 8 inches). For the women, Valeriya Kostiuk took first place in the high jump, jumping 5 feet, 8 inches.
The men put on a great performance in Wichita, winning the meet with a score of 119. On the track, the men dominated the competition, finishing with six first place competitors.
In the men’s 60-meter dash, freshman Travis Collins won the event with a time of 6.84 seconds. Kyandre Lyons won the 200-meter dash with the time 22.30 seconds.

The men took the top 2 spots in the 400-meter dash as Akeem Sirleaf won the event with the time 49.93 seconds, followed by Traion Poellnitz with a 52.18 time.

The Butler 4×800-meter relay claimed first place with a time of 8:24.38 seconds. For the field events, the men finished with three first place winners.

Landon Cuskelly won the high jump with a jump of 2.10 meters (6 feet, 8 inches). Elijah Smith jumped 6.81 meters (22 feet, 3 inches) to win the long jump. Smith also won the triple jump, jumping 14.89 meters (48 feet, 8 inches). The women won the meet by a large margin finishing with a whopping 122 points.

On the track, the women had five first place winners on the night. Javonda Peagler won the 60-meter dash, running a time of 7.79 seconds.

Tashoy Blake won the 200-meter’s just beating out teammate Angel Malone with a time of 26.73 seconds. Davia Smith narrowly pulled out the race for first as she won the 400-meter dash, running a 59.14 second race. Courtney Willis won the 600-meter run with the time of 1:45.96 seconds.

For the field events, the women placed first in four events. Valeriya Kostiuk won the high jump, jumping 1.73 meters (5 feet, 6 inches). Jayne Roberts won the pole vault throwing 3.20 meters (10 feet, 5 inches).

Angel Malone won the long jump with the winning jump coming in at 5.46 meters (17 feet, 9 inches). Dejah Erskine threw 12.27 meters (40 feet, 2 inches) to win the shot put.
The Grizzlies’ next meet was hosted at Pittsburg State for the Gorilla Challenge on Friday, Feb. 10.