Jermaine Clayton, Rob Conrad Have Record Setting Performances at Carnegie Mellon

Complete Results

Jermaine Clayton and Rob Conrad both turned in record setting performances to lead the IUP track and field team's showing at the Carnegie Mellon Invitational on Saturday.

Clayton set a school, stadium and meet record in the long jump with a leap of 24 feet, 9 3/4 inches.  He broke the mark of 23-11 held by Eric Vassal since 1988.  Clayton also holds the school mark in the triple jump at 47-9.

Conrad set a stadium and meet record in the javelin with a throw of 214-10.  He entered the week ranked second in the nation in the event after throwing 214-9 at Wake Forest last week.

Katie Farnsworth was the third IUP event winner, crossing first in the 1500 with a time of 4:47.15, just ahead of teammate Erica Hoffman, who was second in 4:49.85.

Both IUP teams won the Division II and III portion of the scored meet and were fourth overall behind only Pitt, Robert Morris and Duquesne.

Gretchen Colwell scored for the IUP women in three events.  She was third in the hammer throw (149-11), fourth in the discus (123-6) and fifth in the shot put (39-1 1/4).

Jess Moyer was third in the pole vault (10-6) while Casie Williams was fourth in the high jump (5-1) and fifth in the long jump (16-9 1/4).

On the men's side, Chris Gardner was in the top three in a pair of events.  He was second to Clayton in the long jump (22-11 3/4) and third in the high jump (6-4 3/4).

Dan Sain was third in the 400 hurdles (56.53), one spot ahead of Brian Reed (57.89).  Reed was also fourth in the 110 hurdles (15.82).  The 4x100 relay team of Clayton, Gardner, Reed and Lenwood House was third in 43.16.

IUP is back in action at the PSAC West Challenged hosted by California next Saturday.