The University of Louisville track and field teams completed their five-meet split week on April 19, closing out competition at the Bryan Clay Invitational, Virginia Challenge, and Beach Invitational.
During the week, Louisville athletes achieved two Atlantic Coast Conference records, five program records, two freshman records for the university, and produced 20 performances that currently rank among the top ten in school history.
At the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, California, Nancy Chepleting set a new program record in the women’s 5000 meters with a personal-best time of 15:30.20. Emma McGill moved up to sixth all-time for Louisville in the same event with a time of 16:05.34. On the men’s side, Leo Brewer recorded a time of 13:52.38 to move into fourth place in school history for the men’s 5000 meters.
Ryan Farrell ran a personal-best time of 3:45.63 in the men’s 1500 meters at Bryan Clay to become third all-time at Louisville after setting an 800-meter program record earlier in the meet. Brewer also improved his season best in that event to move up to seventh on Louisville’s all-time list.
At the Virginia Challenge held at Lannigan Field in Charlottesville, Roman Kuleshov won first place in men’s triple jump with a wind-aided mark of 16.57 meters—currently leading marks within both ACC and among NCAA leaders this season—and became just the third Cardinal ever to post a wind-legal leap over sixteen meters (16.26m). In women’s triple jump events there, Anna Panenko reached third place overall at Louisville with her personal best of 13.15 meters while Sharvari Parulekar moved into fifth position all-time after jumping thirteen meters.
In Long Beach during Beach Invitational action on Saturday, Ashley Callahan finished runner-up by clearing fourteen feet eight inches (4.47m) in women’s pole vault while Kaia Tupu-South won women’s discus throw (54.77m) and placed third overall for shot put (16.77m). Freshman Breanna Braham set a new school freshman record for women’s four hundred meter dash at fifty-four point zero four seconds; she also helped her relay team clock one of Louisville’s fastest times ever (3:40.70).
The Cardinals will return home next week for their only regular-season home meet—the Jim Freeman/Clark Wood Invitational—from April twenty-third through twenty-fifth.
