Cannon breaks school record in 60M hurdles at Oiler Opener

Defiance sophomore Tawon Cannon set a new school record in the 60-meter hurdles on Friday evening at the Oiler Opener with a time of 8.42 seconds.

The Basics

• Location: The University of Findlay Malcolm Athletic Center - Findlay, Ohio
• The Defiance men's team placed fourth out of 10 teams while the women tied for eighth place out of eight.
• Findlay's men's and women's teams each topped the leaderboard.

Notables

• Cannon placed third in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 8.45 seconds. In the qualifying he ran an 8.42, both times beat the previously Defiance record of 8.66 set by Jordan Weber in 2012.
• Junior Ja'Qway Janvier placed third in the 60-meters with a time of 7.06 seconds.
• Janvier also placed fourth in the 200-meters with a personal best time of 23.00 seconds.
• Freshman Jalen Corbin placed fifth in the 400-meters with a time of 51.92 seconds
• Freshman Deyante Fowler placed fifth in the triple jump with a mark of 12.74 meters and tied for fifth in the long jump with a leap of 6.40 meters.
• The men's 4x400 relay team of Corbin, sophomore Max Julien, freshman Decota Shaw, and Cannon placed first with a time of 4:02.22.
• Senior Lisa Markau led the women's team with a sixth-place finish in the 60-meters with a time of 8.20 seconds.
• Markau's time is a new personal best and the seventh-fastest in program history. Micah Wilson set the top six times in 2014. Markau is now the second-fastest runner in the event in program history.

Up Next 

• Both Yellow Jacket squads will be off until January 14 when they host the Dick Small Invitational at the George Smart Center.