WILMINGTON, Ohio - The Wilmington College men's track & field team will have four individuals compete at the Yellow Jacket Collegiate Outdoor Open hosted by Cedarville University on Saturday.
The Schedule: The four Quakers in the hammer throw are scheduled to compete at approximately 1 p.m.
The Coach: Ron Combs continues his 25th season as the head coach of Wilmington's men's and women's track and field teams. Combs has been named Coach of the Year, twice by the Heartland Athletic Conference, and once by the OAC. In 2002, he led the men's indoor team to a sixth-place finish at NCAA DIII Championships.
The Competitors: JJ Durr, Nate Marcum, Nathan Borgan and Andrew Pacifico will be throwing at Cedarville. Durr, who is a two-time national qualifier in the weight throw indoors, will look to build upon a career-best mark of 180'1" in the hammer throw, set at the Tiffin Track Carnival on April 15-16 of 2022. Marcum's career-best heave of 181' 10" came during the 2021 season, also at Tiffin, while Borgan (173' 7") and Pacifico (178' 1") will also look to improve career bests to open the 2023 outdoor season.
Coverage: Meet information and live results are available - visit the links above.
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Up Next: The rest of the Quaker squad will begin the outdoor season in Kentucky at the Centre Invitational.
