100m victory for Williams, Americas record for Woodhall

Shawn Price May 3, 2024

FAYETTEVILLE – The Razorbacks had some significant improvements heading into the SEC Championships during Friday’s Arkansas Twilight at John McDonnell Field while alum Hunter Woodhall added the T62 400m Para Americas record to his resume.

Razorback Tevijon Williams won the 100m in 10.29 (wind 0.4), just off his career best of 10.27, over Lawrence Johnson (10.42). Later in the 200m, James Benson II won in 20.67 with Williams runner-up at 20.92.

Then in the 110m hurdles (wind 0.7), Phillip Lemonious claimed the victory in 13.52 with a Razorback trio of Elijah Morris (13.70), Brevin Sims (13.73), and William Spencer, Jr. (13.90) finishing 2-3-4.

Woodhall posted a time of 46.39 to finish fourth in the 400m, bettering the standard of T62 47.46 that was established in 2019. Earlier this season Woodhall ran 11.00 in the T62 100m to break the Americas record he previously held.

Former Razorback James Milholen finished ahead of Woodhall in third place with a 46.30 while currentl Razorbacks Brandon Battle (46.53) and Connor Washington (46.69) were fifth and seventh.

Later in the meet, Woodhall split an impressive 44.88 on the second leg of a 4 x 400m relay that finished as runner-up in 3:06.60.

Milholen opened with a 47.67 split, then Woodhall moved the relay squad into the lead over Oklahoma State before passing the baton to alum Daniel Spejcher, who split 48.64. Then Jonah Vigil closed with a 45.41 split as OSU won the race in 3:05.70.

Arkansas freshman John Scott Kendricks won the pole vault with a clearance of 16-8.75 (5.10) as teammate Yariel Soto Torrado finished second at 16-0.75 (4.90) with Spejcher third with a 15-5 (4.70) clearance. Kendricks passed the next height of 17-0.75 (5.20) to try 17-2.75. (5.25).

Elias Schreml led the Arkansas crew racing in the 800m with a 1:49.56 for seventh while Ethan Carney finished ninth in 1:50.25. Wyatt Green set a career best 1:51.14 in placing fourth in another section and was 12th overall.

Professional Omar Craddock set a meet record in the triple jump with a leap of 53-2.25 (16.21). Craddock bettered the 53-1.5 (16.19) meet record set by Arkansas alum Clive Pullen in 2023. Link Lindsey placed fourth in the long jump with a mark of 23-11.75 (7.31).