Gophers Set to Compete at Landmark Outdoor Track and Field Championships This Weekend

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TOWSON, Md. - The Goucher College outdoor track and field teams are set to compete at the 2023 Landmark Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships this weekend (May 6-7).  The 2023 championships are being hosted by Moravian University at Timothy Briedegam Track in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Tickets for each day are $7.00 for adults, $4.00 for children 10-17 and seniors (62+), with Landmark faculty/staff and students with school ID free.  All ticket sales are digital only and can be purchased here.

The Gopher women enter the weekend with a total of 12 top-10 marks in the conference.  Sophomore Carter Hinton-Ayodele (Bowie, Md./Bowie), the defending outdoor conference champion in the women's triple jump, owns the current No. 2 mark in that event (11.39 meters) as well as the No. 7 long jump mark (5.00 meters).  Hinton-Ayodele placed second in the triple jump and fifth in the long jump at the 2023 Landmark indoor championship in February.

Tanise Thornton-Fillyaw (Adelphi, Md./Cheverly STEM Education Center), the 2023 Landmark indoor Rookie of the Year and women's 800 champion, currently has the No. 2 outdoor 800 time in the conference (2:17.84) and the No. 6 time in the 400 (59.96).  She also sits eighth in the 1500 with a time of 4:54.44.

Tahira Bakare (Silver Spring, Md./Archbishop Carroll) enters the weekend with the No. 7 time in the 100-meter dash (12.85 seconds).  The women's 4x100 relay sits fourth with a time of 51.07 seconds set with Bakare, Hinton-Ayodele, Jaelan Gabriel (Houston, Texas/Dulles) and Dorian Cheney (Bryans Road, Md./North Point).

Cheney owns the conference's sixth-best long jump mark (5.12 meters), while Jordan Dumas (Elkridge, Md./Oakland Mills) sits fourth in the triple jump at 10.80 meters.  Gabriel has the sixth-best mark in the conference at 10.69 meters.

Sarah Roth (Canton, Ohio/Massillon Jackson) sits seventh in the hammer throw with a toss of 39.10 meters.

For the men, Mark Martin (Salisbury, Md./Wicomico) has the No. 3 mark in the triple jump (13.44 meters) and the No. 8 mark in the long jump (6.35 meters).  The men's 4x400 consisting of Martin, Deonte Lewis (Fort Washington, Md./Crossland), Sean Whitfield (Beltsville, Md./DeMatha Catholic) and Joshua Stevenson (Hyattsville, Md./Parkdale) has the fourth-best time in the Landmark (3:32.63).