Tawon Cannon
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- Height:
- 6-0
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- Weight:
- 140
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- Hometown:
- Columbus, Ohio
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- Year:
- Fr.
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- High School:
- Mifflin
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- Events:
- Sprints/Hurdles
Bio
Personal Bests: 60H: 9.23 400: 54.21 400H: 57.10 800: 2:48.34 LJ: 5.96m
TFRRS Profile (Top performances and meet-by-meet results)
Freshman (2020-21): Competed in eight meets (three indoor and five outdoor) ... Placed first in the 400-meter hurdles at the HCAC Outdoor Championships with a time of 57.10 ... Member of a 4x100 relay team that placed second at the HCAC Outdoor Championships ... Finished sixth in the 60-meter hurdles (9.23) and 400-meters (54.21) at the HCAC Indoor Championships ... Won the 60-meter hurdles at the John Hartpence Classic on Feb. 12 ... Record top 10 times in program history for the 60 and 400-meter hurdles.
Prep: Lettered in football, wrestling, and track at Mifflin ... regional qualifier for track in 2019 ... Earned Coach's Award for Track while at Mifflin ... School record holder in the 300m hurdles ... District qualifier for wrestling.
News mentions
After a slow start on day one of the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship on Friday, the Defiance College men’s track team had an impressive outing on Saturday, winning two events and finishing 6th out of 10 teams with 54 points. Tawon Cannon and Robert Marshall each claimed event titles.
The Defiance College men's track & field team placed fourth out of five teams thanks in large part to sprinter Robert Marshall who placed first in both the 100 and 200 meters. His times in both events are the fastest in the HCAC so far this season.
The Defiance College track & field teams traveled to Owensboro, Ky. on Friday to compete in the Kentucky Wesleyan Twilight Invitational. Joshua Gaffney placed first in the men’s 400 meters with a time of 52.60 seconds.
The Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference announced the results of its preseason coaches poll for the 2021 outdoor track and field season on Wednesday morning. The Defiance College men’s team was chosen to finished fifth in the conference while the women were picked to finish ninth.
On Saturday the Defiance College men’s and women’s track and field program will begin the 2020-21 outdoor season at the Cedarville Yellowjacket Collegiate Open. This season will be the first outdoor season for Defiance head coach Nathan Christianson, who was hired during the 2019-20 indoor season.
Despite being picked last in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason coaches polls, the Defiance College men's track and field team placed third at the HCAC Championship in Terre Haute, Ind. on Sunday afternoon with a total of 66 points. This is the team's highest finish since 2015 when they placed fourth. Gabriel Melvin won the 60-meters with a time of 6.98 seconds followed closely by teammate Ja'qway Janvier who placed second with a time of 7.02 seconds. Robert Marshall finished second in the 200-meters with a time of 23.07 seconds, a personal best, while Janvier returned to the podium with a third-place finish in the event.
DEFIANCE, Ohio - Three first-place finishes from Ja'qway Janvier set the tone for an impressive outing by the Defiance College track and field teams at the John Hartpence Invitational on Friday evening. Janvier ran the third-fastest time in school history in the 60-meters, clocking in at 6.96 seconds in the finals to win the event. He followed up this record performance by win the 200-meters with a time of 23.48 seconds and also placing first in the long jump with a distance of 5.93m.
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