PHILADELPHIA – The Salisbury University men's track and field team secured Philly gold for the second straight season with a historic run at the 128th annual Penn Relays on Saturday evening at Franklin Field.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The 4x100 relay team of Jacob Shelton, Hayden Myers, Aaron Dufresne, and Kai Smith secured a repeat title for the Sea Gulls in the Eastern Collegiate race, breaking the tape in a time of 41.67 seconds, an improvement of four hundredths of a second over last year's mark.
• Shelton and Smith ran the first and anchor legs, respectively, in the 2023 race as well, with Sherrod Frye and Ryan Kramer in the middle two.
• In the Eastern Collegiate 4x400 relay, Smith, Myers, Ryan Temple, and Mike Heinz lived up to their billing, matching their third-place seed with a third-place finish in 3:16.95. The quartet finished just 46 hundredths of a second off the winning mark.

UP NEXT

• The Sea Gulls now turn their attention to the 2024 Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) Championships, which will be held in Salisbury at the SU Track & Field Complex on Friday and Saturday May 3-4.
• First events on Friday will begin at 4 p.m. with Saturday's competition set for 11 a.m.
• The SU men are the defending C2C champions, while the women placed third at the 2023 championship meet.

Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with the New Jersey Athletic Conference for football and men's and women's swimming, and the Coastal Lacrosse Conference for men's lacrosse. With over 500 student-athletes in 21 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have celebrated 23 team national championships, 24 individual national champions, 197 conference championships, and 45 Academic All-Americans.

To Make Tomorrow Yours at Salisbury University, and learn more about Sea Gull Athletics' tradition of excellence, visit www.SUSeaGulls.com or follow on social media @SUSeaGulls.