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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 13pt; color: black;"><b>T&F: Kelley Records National Mark in 200 Meters </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; color: black;"><b><i>Brannon hits PR, finishes second in pole vault at Tom Jones Memorial </i></b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>For more information contact:
</b>Jerry Hill; 254-709-4994, </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: blue;"><a href="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" title="mailto:jerry_hill@baylor.edu" data-outlook-id="771d5bef-1127-4af0-9c55-d590d2da26f3" style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>jerry_hill@baylor.edu</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="https://live.pttiming.com/?mid=8839&en=230-5" data-outlook-id="21413ffd-bcc7-460a-9775-02aad2441b24" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>TOM
JONES DAY 1 RESULTS</u></a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>GAINESVILLE, Fla. –
</b>Going toe-to-toe with some of the nation’s elite sprinters, Baylor senior All-American Tiriah Kelley posted a time of 22.64 in her first 200 meters of the outdoor season on Friday at the Tom Jones Memorial Invitational. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Finishing third in her heat and sixth overall, Kelley recorded her fourth top-10 time in program history and a time that ranks in the top 10 in the country this season. Yahnari
Lyons of Howard College was the overall winner in 22.34, while Baylor freshman Success Oyibu was 16<sup>th</sup> overall with a career-best time of 22.98. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baylor also recorded a pair of runner-up finishes, with Sebastian Berntsen moving up four spots on his final attempt in the long jump with a Baylor PR of 24-8 ¼; and sophomore
Parker Brannon recording a career best vault of 16-10 ¾. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Coming off a school record a week earlier at the Baylor Invitational, Serafima Lucero was 20<sup>th</sup> in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 57.07 that ranks as her second-best
all time. Sophomore Janae De Gannes was ninth in the women’s long jump invite at 20-3 ¾, a competition won by former Baylor All-American and NCAA champion Alexis Brown at 23-2 ½. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">At the Bryan Clay Invitational in Azusa, Calif., Ruth Kimeli finished fourth in the 10,000 meters late Thursday night with a PR time of 32:27.43 that ranks as the No. 3 time
in school history. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">On Friday, Rickeisha Simms recorded an 800-meter PR time of 2:10.74, while Amon Malakwen had a season PR and his second-best all time at 1:48.89 in the 800-meter elite division. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Both meets will wrap up on Saturday. Live scoring is available at
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="https://live.pttiming.com/?mid=8839&en=230-5" data-outlook-id="e72f7b00-48fa-452b-a51f-28927f7d5d0a" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Tom
Jones Memorial</u></a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> and
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><a href="https://finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com/meets/13512/events" data-outlook-id="1056e722-3236-4e46-8c21-c3a42026438c" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>Bryan
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">For the
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(38, 38, 40);">latest news on the Baylor track and field team all year long, follow its official Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts: @BaylorTrack.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(21, 71, 52);"><b>Jerry Hill</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"> | Director of Sports Journalism (T&F/XC/MG/WG)</span></p>
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