School records for Chan, Ibsen lead JSU at ASUN championship

Friday, February 24

Lynchburg, Va.

Jax State

ASUN Indoor Championships

2/25/2023 8:19:00 PM | Track and Field

JSU Results

LYNCHBURG, Va. – Jacksonville State's indoor season came to a close with the final event of the ASUN championships on Saturday.

The Gamecocks scored 11 th as a team, and turn their attention to the outdoor slate which begins March 17 at Auburn's Tiger Track Classic. Championship host Liberty won both the men's and women's team titles, followed by Kennesaw State on both sides.

Jax State's highlights came in the opening day of action on Friday as freshmen Lennon Ibsen and Elsa Chan set new school records in the both the pole vault and the 5,000-meters.

Ibsen, a Fort Payne, Ala., native, cleared a new height of 3.72 meters (12' 2½") to improve upan the JSU record she already set earlier in the season at Birmingham. She finished sixth overall, followed closely by fellow Gamecock Kayley Stanley in ninth-place at 3.57 meters.

On the track, Chan did the same in improving a school record she previous set earlier in the indoor season. The Brisbane, Australia, native, turned in a time of 17:36.17 in the 5,000 meters to place 14th in the conference. Her time was the fastest among all freshmen in the event.

Senior Ashton Coats narrowly missed advancing to the finals of the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 9.08 in her preliminary race. Maddie Holman also came just shy of atime needed to advance clocking a 7.97 in the 60-meters.

Sophomore Bethelhem Manzano Jimeno finished 13th in the mile run in a time of 5:02.45, missing her personal best by 12 one-hundredths of a second. In the field, senior Kirsen Gardner capped her final indoor championship with 16th in the weight and shot put throws with a distance of 10.57 meters in the weight and 11.16 meters in the shot put.