Posted: Apr 25, 2022

Texas Lutheran Takes Second at SCAC Championships, McDonough Named Male Athlete of the Meet

SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- The Texas Lutheran men's track and field team took second place at the 2022 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Track and Field Championships this weekend. The Bulldogs tallied 204 points over the course of the two-day meet.

Junior Caimen McDonough (Canyon Lake/Canyon Lake) was named Male Athlete of the Meet in the post-meet Awards Ceremony Sunday for his performance. McDonough took first place in the triple jump, posted a second-place finish in the 400 hurdles, a pair of third-place finishes in the high jump and long jump, and added a fourth-place finish in the 110-meter hurdles, earning 34 points in the meet. McDonough would set new school records in the long jump (7.15m) and triple jump (14m).

Five individuals claimed gold on Sunday. Scottie Reyes (Dilley/Dilley) won gold in the discus for the second year in a row with a 46.34m mark. Gerrit Twitero (McQueeney/Seguin) won gold in the men's high jump - establishing a new school record with a mark of 1.97-meters. The record-setting day continued with Caimen McDonough winning the triple jump with a school record mark of 14 meters. Weston Geiger (Shiner/St. Paul) won the javelin throw with a mark of 53.66m. After winning the 200 on Saturday, Freshman Elijah Jefferson (San Antonio/Construction Careers Academy) would add another gold to his collection winning the 100-meter dash with a time of 10.72 seconds - a top five finish in SCAC history.

Chase Cook (Austin/McNeil) would join Reyes on the podium finishing as the runner-up in the discus with a 42.93m mark that moved him into third on the conference leaderboard for the season. Ezrael Powell (San Antonio/Marshall) would earn a bronze finish in the triple jump and 100m dash with a 13.30m mark in the triple jump and time of 10.95 seconds in the 100m dash.

Full Results: https://tlubulldogs.com/sports/mtrack-out/2021-22/files/2022_SCAC_Mens_Track_and_Field_Results.pdf

Coach Holland's Comments:

"We sincerely gave it everything we had. Both genders rose to the occasion with several personal bests, season bests, school records, medals and awards galore! So proud of freshman thrower Julissa Rodriguez for earning a co-most valuable athlete of the meet by scoring in all four of her throwing events and Caimen McDonough for the same honor on the men's side with top performances in the 110 hurdles, 400 hurdles, long jump, triple jump, high jump and 4x400 relay. Then, not to be outdone, senior Troy (TJ) Stephenson earned the Elite 19 award for excellence in the classroom and on the field for the men.

I honestly couldn't believe how well everyone performed! It sounds so cliche, but you just had to be there; the energy was unreal! Saturday evening by the last event, everyone was so pumped, and we took it into Sunday and kept the excitement going on the track and in the field events. Going in, the men were predicted to be down by almost 100 points to Trinity, but that fire was lit and we pressured them until the end. Nobody wanted to give an inch or a 10th of a second at any point during the meet. Again so proud of everyone! It was an amazing Championship meet."

The Bulldogs will compete intermittently over the course of the next month as they prepare for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at the SPIRE Institute in Geneva, Ohio, May 26-28. For all updates on Texas Lutheran Track and Field, follow @tluthrows and @tluxctf on Instagram as well as as all official TLU Athletics accounts. All schedule updates can be found on tlubulldogs.com.