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<h1 align="right" style="text-align:right"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif;text-decoration:none">BAYLOR ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS – May 22, 2024<o:p></o:p></span></b></h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black">Baylor T&F’s Prosper Nnamdi Shatters West Prelim Javelin Record to Advance to NCAA Championship</span></b><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black;background:white">Every BU entry found qualifying marks on first day of regional competition<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">For more information contact:
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Colin Pirtle; 940-564-0351, </span><a href="mailto:colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">colin_pirtle1@baylor.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:9.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. –</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif"> Baylor track and field completed a perfect Day One of the NCAA West Preliminary
Rounds on Wednesday at the University of Arkansas’ John McDonnell Field.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Every Bear that hit the track for competition on Wednesday advanced through to the next round of the NCAA DI Outdoor Track and Field Championship, with Chinecherem Prosper
Nnamdi breaking the meet record for a ticket to the national championship meet in Eugene, Oregon. The junior will make his third appearance in three tries on June 5.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Seven other entries moved through the first round of the regional meet to compete for a spot at Hayward Field in the national quarterfinals on Friday afternoon.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Throughout the meet, live results are provided through
<a href="https://flashresults.ncaa.com/Outdoor/2024/FirstRounds/West/index.htm">Flash Results</a> and fans can watch the action on
<a href="https://www.espn.com/watch/catalog/edb3a386-604c-341a-ba4a-b7b7e44d41a7/track-field#bucketId=29774&sourceCollection=Browse_By_Sport_New">
SEC Network+</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">THE RUNDOWN<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Prosper Nnamdi officially put a throw at the No. 1 spot in the 2024 NCAA DI list on Wednesday afternoon, blasting a 270-9 throw, just shy of his 271-8 PB from the African Games
in March. The junior, who also chunked a 270-6 throw on his second attempt, broke the meet record set back in 2013 by Texas A&M’s Sam Humphreys at 268-9.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">With that No. 2 entry to the Baylor all-time performance list, Prosper Nnamdi now holds every top 10 mark in program history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Nathaniel Ezekiel led the men’s 400-meter hurdles with the overall position on Wednesday evening, easily clocking a 49.20-second race. Chasing the 47-second mark, Ezekiel will
compete for a spot in Eugene on Friday night at 7:25. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">There were three Bears that entered Wednesday’s first round and three Bears that advanced through to the national quarterfinals in the men’s 100 meters. De’montray Callis led
the BU pack with a PB of 10.21 seconds in fifth overall, Laurenz Colbert also took a timed-qualifying spot in eighth at 10.25 and Ricquan Graham finished third in the fourth heat to automatically qualify to Friday’s quarterfinal race.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Returning in the 200, Callis and Colbert found two more automatic qualifying marks by taking top three spots in their respective heats. Callis was sixth overall at a PB of
20.49, while Colbert took 11<sup>th</sup> after 20.46. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Demar Francis ran the quarter mile for the first time since his Big 12 title-winning performance at the Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium and secured an automatic bid to the
national semifinals in 45.75 seconds. His time ranked 13<sup>th</sup> across the field and second in his heat.
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">QUOTABLE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">Junior Chinecherem Prosper Nnamdi
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">On his competition today…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">“I still want to see what I am capable of. I feel like today was cut short because I only have three tries. I feel like I could do more, but it is what it is and I am still
grateful.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">On health since the conference meet…<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">“[My health] has been great. Baylor has done a good job of taking care of me. I had a lot of ups and downs this season. I had a few injuries, but they kept me going and healthy,
and it has been really promising. To be honest, if you had asked me if I would do good at regionals I wouldn’t have known because I was really hurting. It’s been good to come here and do something that I really didn’t expect.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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UP NEXT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">The women’s squad opens its portion of the NCAA West Preliminary meet on Thursday afternoon with an adjusted schedule to beat forecasted severe weather in the area. Alexis
Brown begins competition for the Bears with the long jump at 3 p.m. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoBodyText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Aptos",sans-serif">To stay up to date throughout the year on all things Baylor track and field, follow the team on Facebook, X and Instagram: @BaylorTrack.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E;mso-ligatures:none">Colin Pirtle</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#073D1E;mso-ligatures:none"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">|
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