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Lopes emerge with top WAC marks
1/17/2025 9:07:00 PM | Track and Field
Marques, Prall, Shaw set or tie WAC bests at Lumberjack Team Challenge
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Grand Canyon's track and field team competed Friday at the Lumberjack Team Challenge, hosted by Northern Arizona, and emerged with new conference-leading marks.
It was a slimmed-down list of competitors compared to last Friday's Flagstaff trip for the Axe 'Em Open, but a few Lopes headliners grabbed top marks across the WAC.
Sophomore hurdler and Stephen F. Austin transfer Francisco Marques made his debut in GCU colors and wasted no time jumping to the top of the WAC's performance list. In the 60-meter hurdles, Marques ran a time of 7.92 seconds. He surpassed senior teammate Cam Wilmington's mark from last week by two hundredths of a second, a time that was good enough to win WAC Men's Track Athlete of the Week honors. Marques also bested his personal best from his freshman season by five hundredths.
Lopes now litter the top times across the WAC in the 60-meter hurdles with Marques, Wilmington, sophomore Prosper Ekporere, graduate Daviciea McCartney and senior Justice Fair holding the top five marks.
Marques was the top collegiate finisher in the event at Friday's meet, only finishing behind an Olympian and two other world-class hurdlers.
Sophomore Nicole Prall led a pole vault field that featured all Lopes, clearing 3.85 meters to tie for the top WAC mark.
GCU senior Jamel Shaw logged his best mark in the weight throw at 17.05 meters to ascend to the top of the WAC's marks in the event.
Lopes long jumpers had success with junior John Twedt and freshman Jade Williams moving to third place among WAC athletes. Twedt's top mark measured at 7.19 meters for GCU's best mark on the season and closed in on his personal best of 7.22 from last year's WAC Outdoor Championships. Williams jumped 5.72 meters, not far off the WAC-leading mark of 5.79.
Senior thrower Lucy George checked in with a career-best mark of 12.92 meters in shot put, putting her at No. 3 in the WAC.
The Lopes venture out of the Grand Canyon State next weekend for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
It was a slimmed-down list of competitors compared to last Friday's Flagstaff trip for the Axe 'Em Open, but a few Lopes headliners grabbed top marks across the WAC.
Sophomore hurdler and Stephen F. Austin transfer Francisco Marques made his debut in GCU colors and wasted no time jumping to the top of the WAC's performance list. In the 60-meter hurdles, Marques ran a time of 7.92 seconds. He surpassed senior teammate Cam Wilmington's mark from last week by two hundredths of a second, a time that was good enough to win WAC Men's Track Athlete of the Week honors. Marques also bested his personal best from his freshman season by five hundredths.
Lopes now litter the top times across the WAC in the 60-meter hurdles with Marques, Wilmington, sophomore Prosper Ekporere, graduate Daviciea McCartney and senior Justice Fair holding the top five marks.
Marques was the top collegiate finisher in the event at Friday's meet, only finishing behind an Olympian and two other world-class hurdlers.
Sophomore Nicole Prall led a pole vault field that featured all Lopes, clearing 3.85 meters to tie for the top WAC mark.
GCU senior Jamel Shaw logged his best mark in the weight throw at 17.05 meters to ascend to the top of the WAC's marks in the event.
Lopes long jumpers had success with junior John Twedt and freshman Jade Williams moving to third place among WAC athletes. Twedt's top mark measured at 7.19 meters for GCU's best mark on the season and closed in on his personal best of 7.22 from last year's WAC Outdoor Championships. Williams jumped 5.72 meters, not far off the WAC-leading mark of 5.79.
Senior thrower Lucy George checked in with a career-best mark of 12.92 meters in shot put, putting her at No. 3 in the WAC.
The Lopes venture out of the Grand Canyon State next weekend for the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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