2024-2025 Glendale Community College Men's and Track News
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Gauchos 4x400 Team Medals At NJCAA Indoor Championships
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2025 GCC Men's Track and Field Team
February 21, 20252025 GCC Men's Track and Field Team
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Konrad Clark Breaks GCC School Record at the Gaucho Indoor Invitational
February 11, 2025The Glendale Community College track & field team had a very strong showing at the Gaucho Indoor Invitational hosted here at home in front of about 300 spectators. A new school record was set on Saturday, February 8th from (1st year) Sprinter Konrad Clark in the 300m race. He ran to a first place finish at the time of 33.51 seconds. The previous record was set by Dominic Brister last year (2024) with a time of 33.83 seconds. The 300m is not a NJCAA National event but it is definitely a confidence and character building event. The Gaucho’s were very competitive all over stadium. Many of our men and women posted season and personal best performances. Some punching their ticket for Indoor Nationals, while others are centimeters or milliseconds off from getting their tickets punched. On the Women’s side (2nd year) Pole Vaulter Lauren Allard qualified for NJCAA Nationals with a clearance of 3.05m (10.00ft). (2nd year) Multi’s and Jumps sensation Kaelyn Giarrusso improved on her already NJCAA National qualifying High Jump clearance of 1.63m (5-04.25ft)with a first place finish. Oyindamola Adetutu also captured a first place victory in the Triple Jump with a distance of 10.79m (35-04.75ft). On the track side several women ran to personal best like (2year) sprinter Lailah Campbell and Aliyah Perkins. On the men's side, (1st year) sprinter Konrad Clark qualified for NJCAA Indoor Nationals in his second individual event with a first place finish in the 200m dash with a time of 21.33 seconds. This moves Clark up to #2 All Time in this indoor event. He along with (1st year) Kevin Seales, (2nd year) Kyler McQueen, (1st yr) Roman Zamarron and Connor Sanchez all established new personal best times running under 23 seconds. The throws were consistent. Improvements by (2nd year) Seth Clement in the Shot Put with a personal best throwing distance of 13.56m (44-06.00ft) placing him 3rd behind (1st year) Emmanuel Hernandez 14.75m (48-04.75ft) who took 2nd place in the event. Where both (1st year) Pole Vaulter Cloud Writer and Thrower Noah Brezina are both getting closer to that National Indoor Qualification mark in their respective events with Personal Best marks. Home was definitely where the heart was this weekend! Thank you GCC for all the help and support you provided over this past weekend to make for an amazing meet! Our Gauchos will “Ride On” to Pima this weekend for the Pima Indoor Invitational on Saturday (2/15) and the Multi event competition on Friday (2/14). So, grab your Valentine and take them out on an adventure to Pima to support GCC Track & Field!
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GCC Results for the Ron Mann Classic Invitational and CAC Indoor Invitational Events
February 06, 2025Gauchos had a success splitting locations this weekend Article: This weekend the teams split between the Ron Mann Classic Invitational in Flagstaff, Arizona and the CAC Indoor Invitational in Coolidge, Arizona, where the Gaucho track & field teams found success on both the track and on the field this weekend. Friday | Ron Mann Classic Invitational At the Ron Mann Classic Invitational in Flagstaff, is where most of our Gauchos participated and took to the action. On the women's side of things, (2nd year) Lailah Campbell, Oyindamola Adetutu, (1st year) Petra Onwumere and Aliyah Perkins all had personal best times in the short sprint (60m dash) event. While in the ?ring? events (2nd year) Gloria Anuamadi, threw 2 personal bests in the weight and shot put. The men also took things seriously and posted personal best record?s, where some broke their already established GCC school record from the meet last week at PVCC. In the men's 60m, (2nd year) Anthony Lindsey, Kaleb Denmon, DeMari Colbert and (1st year) Kevin Seales races to career best. K. Seales qualified for finals in the 60m and finished 5th overall with another Personal Best time of 6.89 seconds. (2nd year) Kyler McQueen, (1st year) Roman Zamarron, Cole Carpenter and Konrad Clark all posted personal best indoor performance marks in the 400m dash. K. Clark, made his birthday celebration well worth the meet, breaking his already impressive (indoor) 400m GCC record taking a 3rd overall finish in with a time of 47.26seconds. C. Carpenter was close finishing in 4th place overall in 47.38 seconds. Those times moved our two gentlemen up to #2&4 in the National NJCAA rankings in the indoor 400m. Top Gaucho finisher in the Shot Put was (1st year) Emmanuel Hernandez. He threw his way into the final 8 to place 7th overall with a personal best mark of 15.27m (50-01.25ft). Saturday | CAC Indoor Invitational The Gauchos started the day off right with performances from (1st year) Marques Mayorga and Seth Bohen. The paired up to take 7th and 8th place finishes in the Mile run. S. Bohen then ran to a 3rd place finish in the 800m with a time of 2:00.97 seconds. In the women's 1000m, (1st year) Gracey Yancy had a good run to finish 6th with a time of 3:49.67 seconds. The Gauchos team energy was good while seeing and sharing experiences on both days this past weekend. We held our own competing against several NAIA, NCAA D1,2&3 (4 year) Colleges and Universities. Receiving, major compliments from coaches like GCU, NAU, Cal State Fullerton and Southern Utah just to name a few. The Gauchos will stay home this weekend to host the Gaucho Indoor Invitational in Glendale, Arizona. Please join us by coming out to campus to cheer on the GCCTF teams at Matt O?Hannah Stadium, starting at 10:00am! We would definitely appreciate your support. Hoping to see you there! Ride On Gauchos and G?s up! Results: ?Ron Mann Classic https://results.wingfootfinish.com/meets/43329/events/individual/1575832 ?CAC Indoor Invitational https://results.wingfootfinish.com/meets/43330/events/individual/1580730
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GCC Gauchos 2025 Track and Field Season Opens up at the PVCC Indoor Invitational
January 30, 2025Gaucho 2025 Track & Field season Returns to Action at the PVCC Indoor Invitational Article: After missing their season opener Track and Field meet in Pima last week Saturday (1/18/25) the Gauchos bounced right into action with an impressive appearance, very big first marks as well as some NJCAA National Qualifiers. Paridise Valley Community College was the venue to host their PVCC Indoor Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 25th. A host of Gauchos competing on the Track as well as in the Field events were in attendance and ready to compete. At 10am the field events started off with the men's weight throw, where (1st year) Noah Brezina brought home 1st place with a throw of 15.59m (51-01.75ft). Followed up in the shot put event by (1st year) Emmanuel Hernandez with a 1st place toss of 14.88m (48-10.00ft). While, on the women’s side (2nd year) Kaelyn Giarrusso brought home a 1st place finish with a high jump clearance of 1.62m (5-03.75ft). That jump clearance places her as #5 in D1 NJCAA nationally and qualifies her for NJCAA National (indoor) competition. Then, (2nd year) Oyindamola Adetutu took 2nd place in the Triple Jump with a “step, hop and jump” of 10.56m (34.07.75ft). Then we began our running season at approximately 11 a.m. with the prelims of the women's 60m hurdles. Gaucho Kaelyn Giarrusso won her heat and qualified for the final where she took 2nd place overall in the time of 9.22seconds. Where in his first time ever competing the 60m race sprinter, Anthony Lindsey (2nd year) ran to a 2nd place finish in the Men’s 60m final with a time of 6.98seconds with (1st year) Kevin Seales getting 3rd in a time of 7.07 seconds. Then, four 1st year individuals Kevin Seales, Michael Young, Konrad Clark and Cole Carpenter opened up their Collegiate campaigns by taking, 1st and 2nd place finishes in both the 200m and 400m race events respectively. Konrad Clark debuted with a winning time of 47.82 seconds in the 400m. He was followed closely by teammate Cole Carpenter (.02) who came in second place clocking a 47.84 second time. These times rank them #5 and #6 in the D1 NJCAA (indoor) this season so far. Both young men have qualified for Nationals as well! Where in the 200m, Kevin Seales raced to a first place finish with a time of 22.14 seconds. While, Michael Young was a close second (.10 away) with a time of 22.24 seconds. To close out the day, the Gaucho men’s (A&B teams) competed in the 4x4 meter relay. The A team that consisted of; (2nd year “transfer” Syncere Washington, 2nd year Kyler McQueen, 1st year Cole Carpenter and 1st year Konrad Clark) took 1st place with a winning time of 3:12.92. This time also qualified them for D1 NJCAA (indoor) competition, while ranking them as #5 Nationally in the NJCAA! Congratulations to all our Gaucho track and field team members both Women and Men. The Gauchos will be splitting up this weekend to go to both the Ron Mann Classic, hosted by Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ (1/31)and Central Arizona College Invitational, hosted by Central Arizona College in Coolidge, AZ (2/1). Certainly, looking forward to seeing the continuation of great marks/times throughout this entire track and field season! Results: https://results.wingfootfinish.com/meets/43068/teams/1051629
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D1 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championship Qualifiers
January 29, 2025D1 NJCAA Indoor Track and Field National Championship Qualifiers
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2025 Gauchos Track and Field Schedule Released!
January 16, 20252025 Gauchos Track and Field Schedule Released!
