4x100 Relay Squad Notches Season-Best Time At UCF Knights Invite

Saturday, April 26

Orlando, Fla.

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Mercer University

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4x100 Relay Squad Notches Season-Best Time At UCF Knights Invite

4/26/2025 8:25:00 PM | Track & Field

Results

By: Todd Anderson, anderson_t02@mercer.edu

ORLANDO, Fla. – Mercer's 4x100m Relay squad bested its season-best mark on the way to a sixth-place finish, while redshirt freshman Lauryn McDougald obliterated her personal-best mark amid an 18^th-place showing in the Triple Jump, to highlight action for the Bears on final-day action at the UCF Knights Invite.

Mercer bettered the Southern Conference's fourth-best time in the sport's premier relay event by 0.08 seconds. McDougald's leap in the Triple Jump – which topped her previous personal record by 0.43 meters - boosted her among the SoCon's top 10 performances in the discipline this season.

Redshirt junior Charity Obazughanmwen, who ran the second leg of MU's relay race earlier in the day, finished off her weekend with a 15^th-place finish in the 400m Dash as well. She currently ranks fifth among SoCon student-athletes in the event with her time of 55.96 at the Yellow Jacket Invitational last month.

Mercer will get its final tune-up for the season-ending SoCon Championships next weekend, May 2-3, when it heads to Jacksonville, Fla., for the North Florida-hosted East Coast Relays.

UCF KNIGHTS INVITE (APRIL 26)
Triple Jump
18	Lauryn McDougald	! 11.06m
19	Kamryn Copeland	10.84m
n/a	Pria Pullin	Foul

100m Hurdles
12	Arielle Livingston	14.63

100m Hurdles
6	Mercer - Jiya Hastings, Charity Obazughanmwen, Jayla Simmons, Melissa Ubani	47.22

100m Dash
31	Jayla Simmons	12.51
39	Melissa Ubani	12.68
41	Akira Brown	12.77

400m Dash
15	Charity Obazughanmwen	56.22
29	Kendyl Maddox	! 59.74

! = Personal Best $ = School Record # = Wind-Aided Mark