INFO | JDL Fast Track Saturday results
INFO | Boston University Saturday men's results
INFO | Boston University Saturday women's results

Wingate, N.C.----With a tip of the hat to Major League Baseball split-squad contests, the Wingate University track and field teams competed in two events Saturday. Forty-seven Bulldogs ventured to the JDL Fast Track for the Visit Winston-Salem College Kick-off, while 20 WU distance specialists ran in the Sharon Colyear-Danville Indoor Opener at Boston University.
 
What They Are Saying
Wingate director of cross country and track and field Matt van Lierop
 
"The Bulldogs had outstanding season-opening performances in two states this weekend. The majority of the team at the JDL Fast Track destroyed personal bests, while a smaller squad did the same in Boston. After three months of consistently solid training, these 'Dogs were prepared to show their current fitness and have not disappointed. From what we're seeing already, this is going to be yet another exciting season."
 
Visit Winston-Salem College Kick-off Wingate women's notes
 
- Margaux Shelton and Naiobi White finished third (7.64 PR) and sixth (7.71 PR), respectively, in the 60-meter dash
- White finished third in the 200-meter dash (25.53) with Olivia Crosby taking sixth (25.84 PR)
- Crosby posted an eighth-place finish in the 400-meter dash (1:00.25 PR)
- Valerie Daehler earned a bronze in the high jump (1.69 meters)
- Shelton took seventh place in the same event (1.54 meters)
- Daehler added a seventh-place finish in the triple jump (11.19 meters)
- Both Shelton and Crosby were making their Bulldog debuts Saturday
 
Visit Winston-Salem College Kick-off Wingate men's notes
 
- In his WU debut, Valdemar Meza won the 5000 meters (15:06.41 PR)
- Oskar Enseling finished fifth in the same event (15:21.74)
- Tanaka Nzombe (2.04 meters PR) collected a silver medal in the high jump
- Christian Sturrup was fourth in the high jump (1.94 meters)
- Stephen Clunis finished fourth in the 60-meter dash (6.89)
- Clunis ran a personal-best time of 6:86 in the preliminaries
- Tradon McBride took sixth place in the 60-meter hurdles (8.44 PR)
- Shelton Todd earned a bronze medal in the 200-meter dash (22.65 PR)
- Brent Surratt claimed a third-place finish in the 3000 meters (8:34.23)
- Ivan Rego was sixth in the same 3000 meters race (8:40.19 PR)
- Mateo de Castro Navarro was fifth in the shot put (14.99 meters PR)
- Jeremiah Bonano was seventh in the triple jump (13.57 meters PR)
- Todd, Rego, de Castro Navarro and Bonano were making their WU debuts
 
Sharon Colyear-Danville Indoor Opener Wingate women's notes
 
- In her WU debut, Evie Brooks ran a personal-best time of 5:01.15 in the mile
- Brooks was the top NCAA Division II runner in the Boston U. mile Saturday
- Ona Alonso was Wingate's top finisher in the 3000 meters (9:45.27 PR)
- Alonso and four teammates posted personal-best times in the 3000 meters Saturday
- Alonso's 3000 meters' time is an NCAA Division II provisional mark
 
Sharon Colyear-Danville Indoor Opener Wingate men's notes
 
- Daniel Schmidt finished 16th in the unseeded 5000 meters (14:25.99 PR, top D2 finisher)
- Leo Freeland finished 17th in the mile (4:06.95 PR, top D2 finisher)
- Hamza Chahid finished 19th in the 3000 meters (7:58.60, PR, top D2 finisher)
- Soheil Boufrizi finished 23rd in the 3000 meters (8:00.13, PR)
- Both Chahid and Boufrizi broke the former's previous school record of 8:00.35
- Five Bulldogs posted NCAA Division II provisional times Saturday
- Chahid and Boufrizi have the top two 3000 meters' times in the NCAA D2 this season
 
Up Next for the Wingate indoor track and field teams
 
- Tomorrow, Wingate will return to Winston-Salem for the JDL Early Bird Invite
- Bulldog fans can follow JDL Early Bird live results at this link
- On Friday, selected WU student-athletes will compete in the GVSU Holiday Open
 
Wingate University
 
Wingate University is a lab of difference-making that serves more than 3,400 students in North Carolina and offers 60 degree pathways, including 37 undergraduate majors, 10 pre-professional tracks and five dual-degree programs. Graduate students choose from seven master's and five doctoral programs. The University is home to the Cannon College of Arts and Sciences, the Levine College of Health Sciences, the Byrum School of Business, the Thayer School of Education and the School of Sport Sciences.
 
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a leader in healthcare education where nearly one in five undergraduate students is preparing to be a pharmacist, physician assistant, physical therapist, occupational therapist or nurse. Student-athletes on Wingate's 25 teams compete in NCAA Division II and have brought home the SAC Echols Athletic Excellence Award the past 15 times it has been awarded. The University's motto is "Faith, Knowledge, Service." View current news and videos at www.wingate.edu.
 
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(Editor's note: Wingate University alumnus Steven Grandy contributed information to this article. Grandy graduated cum laude in 2012 with a degree in communication studies.)