Morrison Breaks 60m School Record Again; Earns SAC Honors
For the second time this season, Andre Morrison has ridden a 60m school record to South Atlantic Conference honors.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. – For the second time this season, Andre Morrison has ridden a 60m school record to South Atlantic Conference honors.
On Saturday at the Music City Challenge in Nashville, Tenn., Andre Morrison (Spanish Town, St. Catherine, Jamaica) broke his own 60m school record from just a few weeks ago to win the event.
He did so for the second time this season, breaking his record from the VMI Invitational of 6.63, and in turn, he earns his second SAC Men's Track Athlete of the Week honor.
Morrison won the 60m final in a photo finish, recording a time of 6.60, and needed the extra decimal point to pass Alaba Akintola, a sprinter running unattached but most known for sprinting for Nigeria internationally. Morrison recorded an official time of 6.595 while Akintola recorded a time of 6.599, winning the heat by four one-thousandths of a second.
The time sets him even further apart in the event from former Carson-Newman sprinter, and 13-time All-American Devon Moore.
Although Morrison won the event on Vanderbilt's track, he didn't win his qualifying heats. Morrison recorded the fourth-best preliminary time at 6.70, and the second-best semifinal time at 6.63 matching his previous school record. Morrison beat out 60 competitors in the event, taking down sprinters from Cincinnati, Middle Tennessee State, Southern Miss, and Harding in the final.
The time marks the second-best across Division II, with the only better time coming from Joshua Caleb of Alaska Anchorage who set a 6.59 on Jan. 10.
Carson-Newman Track and Field returns to competition on Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22 at the Virginia Tech Challenge at the Rector Field House in Blacksburg, Va.
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