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The UHSP record-breaking 4x200m Relay Team of Leah Macon-Ford, Jaliyah Potts, Mariah Scott, and Payton Burke.
The UHSP record-breaking 4x200m Relay Team of Leah Macon-Ford, Jaliyah Potts, Mariah Scott, and Payton Burke.
Posted: Feb 01, 2025

Macon-Ford Leads UHSP Record-Breaking Weekend at Prin Relays

Results

ELSAH, ILL. – Leah Macon-Ford led the Eutectic Track & Field teams this weekend, racing to two first-place finishes in the sprints and posting two of the five UHSP record-breaking performances at the Principia College Relays meet on Friday, Jan. 31 and Saturday, Feb. 1. The non-scoring meet played host to more than 18 collegiate teams competing from all levels: NCAA Divisions 1, 2, and 3, NAIA, and NJCAA affiliations.

DAY 1 HIGHLIGHTS – FRIDAY, JAN. 31:

  • Fresh off last week's Conference Track Athlete the Week honors, Leah Macon-Ford broke her own UHSP record (set in December) en route to winning the 200m Dash, beating out 23 other sprinters entered. Her time of 26.62 improved her previous record by 0.09 seconds and bested the second-place finisher from Greenville University by 0.35 seconds. The time is converted to 26.22 by Track and Field's governing body TFRRS due to track size. Macon-Ford also ran the fastest time of 29 entrants in the 60m Dash Preliminaries to qualify for the finals with a time of 7.76.
  • Competing in her first collegiate multi event, UHSP's hurdler/jumper phenom Taylor Washington set a new school record with a total score of 2397, smashing Allison Wakeland's record of 1737 from 2019. Washington finished eighth of 11 competitors, who were all from NCAA Division II schools or Unattached, in the five-event contest, which includes High Jump, Shot Put, Long Jump, 60m Hurdles, and the 800m Run. Her best event of the day was the 60m Hurdles where she finished third with a time of 9.47.   
  • Several Eutectic athletes posted Personal Records (PRs) on Day 1:

DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTS – SATURDAY, FEB. 1:

  • Macon-Ford maintained the top time in the finals of the 60m Dash finishing at 7.80, a mere .03 seconds faster than the second-place finisher from Principia.
  • Macon-Ford joined with teammates Mariah Scott, Jaliyah Potts, and Payton Burke to smash the Eutectic record in the 4 x 200m Relay by more than 10 seconds. Their time of 1:53.25 took fourth place of eight teams in the relay race, which included a UHSP "B" team of Adison Plazek, Paulina Gutierrez-Trejo, Samantha Smolnik, and Whitney Auguste that posted the third-best time in Eutectic history at 2:03.89.
  • Jared Morales and Laila Wells each posted new school records in the 500m Dash. Morales improved his PR by a half a second, finishing at 1:11.99 to break Marlin Brown's 2024 record of 1:12.05. In her first 500m collegiate race, Wells set the new UHSP women's record at 1:28.04, edging out Allison Wakeland's 2019 record of 1:28.70.
  • Personal Records on Day 2 came from:

NEXT UP:

With just two weeks until the American Midwest Conference Indoor Championships, the Eutectics are training to peak at just the right time. This Saturday, Feb. 8, the UHSP track and field teams will compete at the Jim Green Invite hosted by Illinois College in Jacksonville, Ill., for the final regular-season indoor meet of 2025.