WILMINGTON, Ohio – The Capital University track and field team concluded competition at the 2025 outdoor Ohio Athletic Conference Championships on Friday evening in what turned out to be a day interrupted numerous times by thunder and lightning. 

Despite the elements and delays, the Comets found ways to put forth quality efforts in their respective events with numerous top-10 performances being met, and Justin Mathews recording an All-OAC showing in the men's triple jump as the day's highlights. 

In the team standings, the men placed tied for seventh with Muskingum. The Capital women finished 10th. Mount Union claimed the men's title and Ohio Northern won the women's title. 

FRIDAY – MEN
Shot Put: Nolan Piper placed 15th overall with his best throw registering 13.45 meters. Waylon Yeager placed 23rd with a mark of 12.31 meters. 

Hammer Throw: Piper was back in action in his specialty, the hammer throw, where he placed seventh place overall, earning two team points. His best throw marked 50.82 meters which improves his own hold on the second best measure in program history. 

Triple Jump: Justin Mathews landed himself on the podium, finishing as the runner-up in the triple jump – his second consecutive All-OAC finish in the event after he also reached the podium at the Indoor Championships. Mathews lept a distance of 13.92 meters to comfortably take second place. The distance also bumps Mathews into a tie for 6th all-time at Capital in the event. He is level with Sylvanus Eddy who also jumped 13.92 meters at the 2005 OAC Championships. 

1,500m Run: Kolin Brake put forth a very strong performance in the 1,500-meter dash, setting a new PR by four seconds and placing eighth overall in the event to score a team point. Brake clocked a time of 4:02.86 which moves him up to fifth all-time in Capital history – the fastest Capital time in the event since 2013.  

100m Dash (Finals): Cheik Souare finished fifth overall in the event with a time of 10.97 seconds which picked up four team points for the Comets. 

800m Run: Brake ran again in the two lap 800-meter run, placing 23rd in a time of 2:04.29. 

200m Dash (Finals): Souare grabbed another point-scoring finish in the 200-meter dash by clocking a time of 22.20 seconds and finishing sixth overall. 

5,000m Run: Mikey Arnone ran a personal best time of 15:26.23 enroute to a 19th place finish. The time bumps him up the program top-10 list to fifth-best. Zach Glotzbecker ran a PR time of 15:40.40 to place 28th overall. 

4x400m Relay: The quartet of Justin Mathews, Dom Glenn, Cheik Souare, and Kolin Brake combined to run a time of 3:26.79 and finish eighth overall in the 4x400-meter relay. The group beat out Marietta and Otterbein by less than two-tenths of a second to grab the final point-scoring placement in the event.

FRIDAY – WOMEN
Hammer Throw: Mia Sanchez led the Comets with a toss of 40.46 meters which placed her 19th overall. DeiVon McCullough was 30th in the field, throwing a distance of 35.79 meters. 

Shot Put: McCullough was back in action in the shot put as she placed 20th overall with a heave of 10.42 meters. 

5,000m Run: Olivia Ellis placed 15th overall with a time of 19:12.75. That effort was good enough to move her up one place to ninth all-time at Capital in the event. Catherine Schaub ran a time of 20:20.03 to finish 22nd. 

THURSDAY – MEN
Discus: Waylon Yeager finished 14th with a toss of 38.71 meters, while Nolan Piper was 18th with a mark of 38.42 meters. 

Javelin: Jason McColl earned the first points for Capital by placing fourth overall in the javelin throw. His mark of 48.73 meters was also a personal best and improved his own standing to 10th all-time in the event at Capital. 

Long Jump: Justin Mathews was 20th overall with his best leap measuring 5.59 meters. 

100m Dash (Prelims): Cheik Souare led the Comets with a fourth place finish in the 100-meter dash prelims on Thursday. Souare won his heat with a time of 10.95 seconds which seeds him fourth for tomorrow's finals. Dom Glenn placed 11th overall with a time of 11.15 seconds. 

200m Dash (Prelims): Souare again qualified for the finals of the 200-meter dash as he clocked the sixth best prelim time of 22.30 seconds. Glenn finished up 14th in a time of 23.00 seconds. 

3,000m Steeplechase: Mikey Arnone finished 15th best in the event, running a time of 10:13.60, while Aiden Mahony finished 20th in a time of 10:39.03. 

10,000m Run: Zach Glotzbecker put forth a time of 32:48.13 to place 15th overall in the 10K. The time was a near miss of his previous best in the event. Aaron McNutt put forth a new PR time of 34:09.62 to place 24th overall. The time improved his own 7th-best time in program history. 

THURSDAY – WOMEN
Pole Vault: Alex Wilkinson got the Comets on the board in terms of team scoring placing in a tie for eighth place. She cleared 3.03 meters on her best attempt. 

Discus: Mia Sanchez placed 12th overall in the discus throw, tossing a distance of 34.12 meters. 

200m Dash (Prelims): Jaleea Harvey ran a time of 28.92 seconds to finish 29th overall in the event. 

400m Dash (Prelims): Jaleea Harvey placed 21st with a time of 1:05.50. 

3,000m Steeplechase: Elizabeth Mak ran a time of 12:53.22 to finish 10th overall. 

10,000m Run: Olivia Ellis ran a time of 40:26.79, which placed her 11th overall and improved her own hold on the fourth fastest 10K in program history. The time was a 10-second improvement on her previous best. 

UP NEXT
Capital is slated to take part in two more competitions this year in hopes of earning a national qualifier time or mark. First, the team will head to BW's Harrison Dillard Twilight next Friday before going to Mount Union's Last Chance meet the following Thursday.