Track & Field | 3/21/2026 9:23:00 PM
HIGH POINT, NC – North Carolina A&T's outdoor track and field season is in full swing after the men's and women's teams completed High Point University's Bob Davidson Team Challenge at Vert Stadium over the weekend.
The Aggies produced three wins and four runner-up finishes, led by junior sprinter
Makenna Urbanek, who won the women's 100 meters and finished second in both the women's 200m and women's 4x100m relay. They also earned wins in the men's 800 meters and men's triple jump.
Urbanek ran a personal best 11.50 to win the 100m, finishing ahead of HPU's Zamesha Myle (11.61). She now leads the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) and ranks ninth nationally. Urbanek also set a personal best in the 200m at 24.05, placing second behind Duke's Taylor Aska (23.95), and ranks third in the CAA.
In the women's 4x100, Urbanek joined senior
Zamia Stelly, and freshmen
Khamoni Rockeymore-Crews and
Journey Cole for a 45.12 finish, second behind Akron (44.68). Their time leads the CAA and ranks 28th nationally. Sophomore
Elijah Thomas won the men's 800m for the Aggies.
Thomas ran a personal best 1:50.21 in the 800m, finishing ahead of George Mason's Paul McClain (1:50.95) and ranking first in the CAA and 15th nationally. Junior
Xavier Partee secured first in the men's triple jump with a mark of 48 feet, 10 ¼ inches.
Partee outjumped HPU's Mobughichukwu Nwakor (48-5 ¼), claiming the conference's second-best mark and the nation's 32nd-best. Sophomore
Grant Boykin placed third in the men's triple jump with 47 feet, 3 inches, ranking third in the CAA behind Partee and UNC Wilmington's Ivan Poag (49 feet, ¾ inch).
A&T's other runner-up finishes came in the women's 400-meter hurdles, where freshman Rachel Wildgoose ran 1:00.69 behind Duke's Johrdyn Tarpeh (1:00.54), and in the men's long jump, where freshman
Brenton Baker jumped 23 feet, 3 ½ inches for second. Wildgoose is second in the conference behind Hampton's Camren PenaSoto (1:00.36) and is 32nd nationally.
The Aggies recorded other top-three finishes. Sophomore
Alex Henry placed third in the men's hammer throw with a personal best of 190 feet, 5 inches, ranking first in the CAA. He also finished fourth in the men's discus at 170 feet, 3 inches. Senior
Zamia Stelly took third in her event.
Stelly finished third in the 100H with a time of 14.08. That places her in third place in the CAA. The men's 4x400 relay team of juniors
Caleb Gurnell,
Braden Jordan,
Shamar Morgan, and
Xzaviah Taylor placed third with a time of 3:10.35. It t is the best time in the CAA. It is the 17th-best time in the country. In the other relay event, the women's 4x400, the Aggies placed fourth with the team of Wildgoose, freshman
Eden Fuller, sophomore
Jaylen Spencer, and freshman
Malayia Morrow, finishing in 3:51.57.
They have the second-best time in the CAA. Next up for the Aggies is the three-day Raleigh Relays hosted by North Carolina State University at the Paul Derr Track & Field Facility in Raleigh, NC, starting Thursday.
