DENTON, Texas – The Wichita State men's track and field team claimed its third American Conference Outdoor Championship Saturday at Norma Knobel Hunt Stadium.
 
Josh Parrish led the Shockers with 26.5 points, the most by any athlete in the competition, to be named the American Conference Championship Most Valuable Performer. The junior from Olathe, Kan. claimed his second-straight 110-meter hurdles title after winning the long jump on day two, recorded another podium finish in the 4x100-meter relay and scored points in the 200 meters with fifth-place finish and in the triple jump with an eighth-place performance. He ran a wind-aided personal best in the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.17 and led the Shockers to a 17-point event with Tyler Carroll finishing fifth (13.60), Jabari Armstrong finishing seventh (13.84) and Luke Holthusen finishing eighth (13.95).
 
Parrish's hurdles title was one of five day three championships the Shockers won, and one of nine overall throughout the competition. The Shockers swept the high jump titles as Kaleb Tesmer led the Shockers to a 20.5-point event in the men's competition and Jelese Alexander cleared the No. 10 bar in the nation to win the women's competition. Tesmer cleared 2.08m/6'9.75" on first attempt to take the win over two North Texas jumpers who also cleared the same bar. Shocker Andre Pentecost also cleared 2.08m to place fourth, and Darius Graham and Cole Smither jumped 2.03m/6'8" to take fifth and seventh, respectively. Alexander jumped 1.86m/6'1.25" on third attempt after clinching the win with her 1.83m clearance at the previous bar. Mattelyn Swartz also scored in the women's high jump, placing seventh with a clearance of 1.73m/5'8".
 
After entering the championship seeded 19^th in the 800 meters and upsetting the field with the fastest prelim time on Friday to advance to the final, freshman Jasmine Stiede raced to an American Conference 800-meter title, running an incredible closing 200 to win the race in 2:13.89.
 
Jason Parrish went back-to-back in the 400-meter hurdles, winning the title in 49.58 after joining his twin, as well as Brody Anderson and Chairo Ogbebor on the third place all-conference 4x100-meter relay earlier in the day. Ogbebor and Parrish also scored points in the 100-meter dash, running all conditions personal bests of 9.89 (+6.0) and 10.04 (+6.0).
 
Four more Shockers recorded podium finishes on the final day of competition, starting with a runner-up finish in the women's 1500-meter final by Vivien Kipkorir, who ran a personal-best time of 4:27.68, good for No. 9 in school history. Elkana Kipruto landed on the podium for the second time in three days, finishing runner up in the 5,000 meters after the winning the 10,000 on day one. In the final field event of the competition, two Shockers made it on the triple jump podium as Kelvin Acheampong jumped 15.46m/50'8.75" for silver and Asher Buggs-Tipton jumped 15.40m/50'6.25" for bronze.
 
The Shockers put up points in seven more events, scoring 10 points in the men's pole vault with a fourth-place jump and personal best of 5.02m/16'5.5" from Carson Ratzlaff, a sixth-place 4.92m/16'1.75" clearance from Liam Miller and a 4.77m/15'7.75" jump for seventh place from Rikard Trogen Hedin. In the discus, Reese Goodlet placed eighth in the women's competition with a throw of 49.62m/162'9", and Eli Johnson and Trogen Hedin placed seventh and eighth in the men's competition, throwing 54.36m/'178'4" and 54.17m/177'8", respectively. Kelvin Kipyego scored three points in the men's 1500 meters, running 3:50.97 to finish sixth, and Lucy Ndungu finished fourth in the women's 5,000 meters with a time of 16:59.51 after winning the 10,000 meters on Thursday. The women's 4x100-meter relay team of Zada Brown, Courtney Wilborn, Sadie Millard and Alexander and the men's 4x400-meter relay team of Ogbebor, Jason Parrish, Trogen Hedin and Brock Merz each both finished eighth to score one point apiece with times of 46.40 and 3:21.59, respectively.
 
The Wichita State men finished with 171 points, winning the men's team title by 31 points as North Texas placed second with 138 points and South Florida took third with 116. The Shocker women took sixth with 70 points, just two points out of fourth place, while Rice claimed the women's team title with 142 points. The Wichita State men's and women's teams combined for the most total points between programs out of all teams in the meet with 241 points.