EUGENE, Ore. — The Lady Bulldogs had five scorers on the final day and the UGA women finished third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore., on Saturday.
The fourth-ranked Georgia women finished third with 37.5 points. USC (74), Texas A&M (63), Alabama (31) and North Carolina A&T (31) completed the top five. This marks the sixth national top-five finish outdoors since 2014 during a stretch that includes a pair of runner-up finishes.
The men’s portion of the meet wrapped up on Friday. Georgia scored 25 points to take eighth with their fifth top-10 finish since 2014. LSU (84 points) captured the men’s team title.
Other than the decathlon that ran Wednesday-Thursday and the heptathlon going Friday-Saturday, the meet was set up to be a men’s competition on Wednesday and Friday and a women’s competition on Thursday and Saturday.
Two days after her bronze medal in the long jump, sophomore Jasmine Moore saved her best mark for her last attempt in the triple jump to earn a silver medal. The Grand Prairie, Texas, native completes her first full year with four First Team All-America certificates. Teammate and training partner Titiana Marsh became a scoring All-American for the first time in her career by taking seventh in the triple with her top effort also coming on her sixth attempt.
Georgia had a duo of high jumpers tally points thanks to finishes in the top seven. Sophomore Shelby Tyler hit a personal record to finish fifth at her first NCAA outdoor meet while sophomore Anna Hall had a safe clearance at 5-11.25 to tie for seventh place. Hall was the country’s second-ranked heptathlete but opted to qualify for Nationals in an individual event as she prepares for the Olympic Trials.
Graduate transfer Asya Reynolds, who finished day one in seventh, also completed the seventh and final event of the heptathlon in seventh place to earn a First Team All-America certificate. She scored 5,754 in her final collegiate action. Reynolds earned her undergrad degree at Michigan State before joining the Bulldog program prior to the 2020-21 school year.
The Bulldog men had three scorers in their final day of competition on Friday. Arian Smith, Elija Godwin, Delano Dunkley and Matthew Boling clocked a school record to take second in the 4x100-meter relay and Boling returned to finish sixth in the 100m and then took fifth in the 200m to become the first Georgia sprinter to score in three sprint events at the same NCAA outdoor meet since Mel Lattany in 1981.
On Thursday, Georgia had a pair of NCAA champions in Olympic hopefuls senior Marie-Therese Obst (javelin) and junior Karel Tilga (decathlon) to go along with another pair of scorers in Moore (third – long jump) and senior Kayla Smith (fifth – pole vault).
Unlike their teammates, Tilga and Reynolds advanced to the NCAA Championships from their national rankings and did not have to compete at the NCAA East Prelims two weeks ago.
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