MANHATTAN, Kan. – Josh Parrish led Wichita State to its best KU-KSU-WSU Triangular team finish since 2020, claiming the High Point Award with 14 points.
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Kansas claimed its third-consecutive team title with 254 points, Wichita State placed second with 210 points and K-State took third with 188 points.
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Separating the team scores into male and female, the Shocker men finished first with 122 points, Kansas was second with 118, and K-State was third with 71, and the Jayhawk women finished first with 129 points, K-State was second with 112 and Wichita State was third with 94.
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Josh Parrish tied with K-State's Gary Moore and KU's Emmaculate Jemutai for the High Point Award with 14 points. Parrish scored five points in the 60-meter hurdles, five in the long jump and four in the triple jump to win the award for the second-straight year.
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The Shockers claimed six individual event wins, starting with a 60-meter hurdles sweep. Sophomore
Kate Campos started the running events off with a women's hurdles win, running 8.70, and sophomore
Tyler Carroll followed up with a men's race win, running the 10
th-fastest hurdles time in Shocker history and the fastest time in the American Athletic Conference this year with a personal-best 7.97, leading the men to a 1-2-3 sweep.
Josh Parrish finished second in 8.16, and
Jaleel Montgomery took third in 8.18.
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Montgomery went on to win the 200 meters with a personal-best time of 21.34, the second-fastest time in Wichita State history, just 0.14 seconds away from Shannon Armstrong's record from 2003.
Joakim Genereux gave the Shockers a 1-2 finish in the event, tying his personal-best time of 21.35. In the women's 200,
Sydney Brown opened her season with a personal-best time of 24.25 to move up to tie with Jacque Darby for No. 4 in Shocker history, finishing second in the race.
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Jason Parrish picked up his first career indoor title, running the second-fastest 400 meters time in Shocker history, just 0.27 seconds off Adam Gauzy's record from 2020, clocking a time of 47.78.
Sadie Millard also ran a Wichita State all-time top-10 time in the 400, finishing second in 55.80.
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Redshirt-junior
Yared Kidane made a splash in his Wichita State track and field debut, breaking the Shocker 600-yard record to win the race in 1:09.53, and sophomore
Ian Schram won the next race with an 800-meter time of 1:51.65, the eighth-fastest time in school history and an early conference lead.
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Graduate transfer from Abilene Christian,
Athan Huelskamp, etched his name in the Shocker record books in his Wichita State debut, recording the ninth-best weight throw mark in program history with a throw of 18.97m/62'3". He went on to take second in the shot put with a throw of 16.44m/53'11.25".
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In the long jump,
Chidera Okoro jumped her best season opener of her career, taking second with a mark of 5.87m/19'3.25".
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Freshman
Cailey Freezen ran the 10th-fastest 1,000 meters in school history to finish fourth in the event in her Wichitat State track and field debut.
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Wichita State returns to the track Friday and Saturday, Jan. 24 and 25 for the Prairie Wolf Invitational and the Mark Colligan Memorial in Lincoln, Neb.
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WOMEN'S RESULTS