GEORGETOWN, Texas - The Concordia Texas track & field program opened up the 2025 spring campaign with a strong showing at the CenTex Invitational. Thomas Hughes & Jake Land both PR'd at the event on Saturday.

Hughes notched a new personal-best time of 2:14.36 in the 800m, and also secured a third-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase (10:28.83). Land led the charge in the 100m dash for CTX and clocked in at 10.90, marking the best legal time of his career. 

In his first event as a member of the program, Ka'Von Moore Jr. placed third in the long jump at 6.49m. Another first year member in Walker Finleyson followed closely behind him with a leap of 6.42m to place fourth. Freshman EJ Ramirez was another Tornado that shined in the 400m hurdles as he placed fourth with a time of 1:01.04.

Rylee Whorton paced CTX in both the 100m (13.10) & 200m (27.50). Kimora Roberson showed well iin the field events with tosses of 8.78m in the shot put and 26.53m in the discus. Lluvia Rodriguez showed her range as posted a time of 1:21.71 in the 400m and a javelin throw of 15.46m.

A plethora of new Tornados set collegiate benchmarks at the event, highlighted with Joshua Zak leading the way in field events with a shot put of 9.82m and discus toss of 31.77m.

Click here to view the full results of the meet. 

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