CHARLESTON, Ill. – Freshman Kayla Smith won gold in the women's 100 meters and sophomore Quantasia Perry broke the EKU record in the women's 200 meters on the final day of the Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
 
The EKU women finished fifth at the meet with 100 points, while the men took fifth with 57.5 points.
 
Smith exploded out of the blocks and led from the gun in the 100 meters finals, winning with a time of 11.54. She is the first EKU woman to win the OVC 100 meters title since 2010.
 
Perry finished seventh in the 100 meters, but bounced back in a big way in the 200 meters finals. The sophomore took silver in 23.59, crushing the previous school record of 23.75 held by Sheri Calhoun since 2003.
 
Smith won bronze in the 200 meters, clocking a personal-best time of 23.83.
 
Perry, Smith and freshmen Christian "Joy" Scott and Emily Roesser combined to win bronze in the women's 4x100 meter relay with a time of 45.78.
 
Three Colonels scored points in the women's 1,500 meters finals. Sophomore Lou Trois earned a silver medal in the race, clocking a time of 4:27.4 Freshman Anouk van Gils was fourth in 4:39.4, followed by freshman Katy Chapman in seventh with a time of 4:42.0.
 
Trois doubled back and took fifth in the 800 meters, recording a time of 2:13.7 and adding four more points.
 
Junior Jeanne Reix Charat – who won silver in the women's 10,000 meters on Thursday night – added another silver medal on Saturday, finishing second in the 5,000 meters in 17:19.9. Junior Beighley Ayers added three more points in the 5K, placing sixth in 17:39.2.
 
On the men's side, three Colonels put up points in the 1,500 meters. Junior Ahmed Jaziri finished third, taking bronze with a time of 3:48.9. Junior Joan Tapias was fifth in 3:50.1, followed by junior Jackson Siddall in eighth with a time of 3:54.1.
 
Sophomore Bryce Favors-Charleston contributed five points with a fourth-place finish in the 100 meters (personal-best 10.77).
 
Freshman Alex Leshan (1:53.1) and Tapias (1:53.5) went 4-5 in the 800 meters, adding nine points.
 
Freshman Nikodem Dworczak scored points in the 5,000 meters, placing sixth in a time of 14:40.3
 
Leshan, Drew Sawyers, AJ Moss and Liam Kaune combined to finish sixth in the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:23.2.
 
Junior Samuel Carter added points with a fifth-place finish in the triple jump, recording a leap of 47-1.5.
 
Qualified Colonels will now compete at the NCAA East Preliminaries May 27-29 in Jacksonville, Florida.