Southeast Track & Field

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Coming off his first season throwing javelin for the Southeast Missouri State track and field team, Josiah Kilgore wants to pass along what he’s learned to Poplar Bluff’s younger athletes. With the recent passage of the name, image and likeness laws he will be able to do just that...

Southeast Missouri State Track and Field athletes Dylan Clark, Terrico Garrett, Donald Hatfield Jackson and Josiah Kilgore represented the university in the opening day of the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships West Preliminary Wednesday at E.B. Cushing Stadium in College Station, Texas on Wednesday...

Both Southeast Missouri State womens and mens track & field squads secured a trio of medals to open the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships Thursday at. Donald Hatfield Jackson and Dylan Clark grabbed a pair of gold medals for the men while Nicole Humphreys captured Bronze to lead the women...

Southeast Missouri State runner Kaitlyn Shea was recently named as the Ohio Valley Conference Female Track Athlete of the Week.

Senior Carli Knott was named the Ohio Valley Conference Co-Female Track Athlete of the Week, the league announced Thursday. Knott, a Jackson, Missouri, native, won the women's 1,500 meters at Vanderbilt's Black and Gold Invitational on April 17 in a Southeast Missouri track & field program-record time of 4:23.89. The mark surpassed Laura Byrne's time of 4:24.15 set in 1989...

Freshman Josiah Kilgore was named the Ohio Valley Conference Male Field Athlete of the Week, the league announced Thursday. Kilgore, a Poplar Bluff, Missouri, native, improved on his personal-best javelin throw set at the 2021 Joey Haines Invitational (199-6, 60.82m) with a career-best mark of 226-3 (68.96m) to take second at the 53rd annual Tennessee Relays this past week...

Sophomore Donald Hatfield Jackson was named the Ohio Valley Conference Co-Male Track and Field Athlete of the Week, league officials announced Thursday. Hatfield Jackson picked up a pair of first-place finishes last weekend at the Southeast Missouri State track & field's 2021 Joey Haines Invitational, winning the high jump and long jump...

The Southeast Missouri women's track & field team finished first overall at the Bill Cornell Spring Classic Saturday at the Lew Hartzog Track and Field Complex on the campus of Southern Illinois, scoring 202 points. The SEMO men placed second, scoring 169.50 points after Ohio Valley Conference foe Eastern Illinois placed first with 270.5...

The best pole-vaulter in Jackson history continues to get even better. Southeast Missouri State sophomore Jack Rinehart tied for first with Tanner Teigen, who competed unattached, in the Redhawk Invite on Friday at the Student Recreation Center. Rinehart broke the senior pole vault record at Jackson and was the Semoball Award recipient for Track and Field Athlete of the Year. As a freshman at SEMO, he raised his game by finishing in the top-five in six indoor track meets...