AUSTIN — The 4×400-meter relay was the final event of the evening, and the Paris Peoples quartet of Arkansas, Joanne Reid, Nickisha Pryce (50.33) and Rosey Effiong (50.73) won it with a time of 3 minutes 24 seconds and five hundred and seventy-three hundredths of a second. Time is currently ranked third all-time at the University of Arkansas, and the Razorbacks have won all three NCAA titles this season.
Razorback On the final day of the NCAA Championships, the 100-meter hurdles event was held at Mike A. Myers Stadium. Ackera Nugent won the event with a time of 12.25 seconds, which was the fastest collegiate time ever. At the end of the competition, Arkansas finished third in the team standings with a total of 46 points. The national championship was won by Texas with 83 points and Florida came in second place with 51 points. After Arkansas, the teams with the next best record were Oregon (44), Texas A&M (36), Kentucky (28), LSU (26), Nebraska (25), Harvard (23), Georgia and Tennessee, all tied at 19 points apiece.
Nugent quickly took the lead in the 100-meter hurdles race, as he raced down the track with a wind speed of 3.8 miles per hour helping him. Masia Russell of Kentucky came second with a time of 12.32 and Alia Armstrong of Kentucky took third place with a time of 12.49. Nugent’s time is also tied for tenth on the all-conditions list for the world. This season, Nugent also won the 60-meter indoor hurdles, which allowed him to sweep the NCAA hurdles titles.
Britton Wilson finished in second place with a time of 49.64, Nickisha Pryce came in third with a personal best 50.23 and Rosey Effiong finished in fourth place with a time of 50.77 for Arkansas in the the 400 meter race. Talitha Diggs, a Florida native and defending champion, clocked 50.93 to place fifth. After that, Wilson ran a mark of 55.92 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles and finished eighth overall. Prior to the hurdle race, Nugent served as the anchor leg for the Razorback 4 x 100 meter relay team, which crossed the finish line in fourth place with a time of 42.83 seconds, which making it the second-fastest time in Arkansas track and field annals. history behind the 42.65 mark reached in 2019.
Ariane Linton, MeKenze Kelley and Effiong were all members of the Razorbacks’ starting lineup. The winning time for the sprint relay was 41.60 seconds, which puts Texas ahead of Kentucky (42.46) and LSU (42.52). After the Arkansas Razorbacks, Ohio State (42.85), Georgia (42.87), Oregon (43.06), Baylor (43.12) and USC (43 ,13) finished second and fifth respectively. Texas A&M (3:26.12), Ohio State (3:26.72) and USC (3:27.42) came in second, third and fourth behind Arkansas, respectively, in the 4×400 relay. 5,000 meters, Sydney Thorvaldson finished 12th with a time of 16 minutes and 3.61 seconds.
