The Jax State track and field program split duties this weekend, with athletes participating in the Joe Walker Invitational at Ole Miss on Friday and Saturday and the Crimson Tide Invitational at Alabama on Friday.

In Tuscaloosa on Friday, the Gamecocks had a variety of runners that had solid showings and found their way into the program all-time top ten lists, highlighted by Charity Mabuza's 2:09.77 time in the 800m final which earned her a fifth-place finish and the second-fastest time in program history.

Additionally, in the 800m, the freshmen duo of Viola Jepleting and Claudia Marquez shined as well, as Jepleting placed seventh with a 2:10.05 which is the third-fastest mark in school history, alongside Marquez who placed 10^th at 2:10.87 for the fifth-fastest time in team history.

Also finding their way onto the school leaderboards was the grouping of Jaliah Loving, Cheyenne Hill, Tori Mack and Nicola Peters who placed sixth in the 4x100m final with a time of 46.45 seconds. The mark is the ninth fastest in program history.

For the men's unit, it had five top-15 finishers in the 5000m out of 42 competitors, highlighted by Mark Roper's fifth-place finish with a time of 14:34.04. Alongside Roper was Meshack Kosegei who placed sixth (14:36.38) and Pai Wynyard (14:40.31) who placed seventh in the event. Rounding out the top-15 finishers in the 5000 for Jax State was Stephen Billman (14:53.95) and Juan Camacho Tabuenca (14:54.30).

At Ole Miss on Friday, the Gamecocks had multiple solid performances in both long jump and javelin throw with five of six competing athletes earning top ten finishes. Tierra Agee earned the best finish of the team, placing third in the long jump with a distance of 5.81m which is the sixth-longest in team history. Also performing well in the long jump was Sky White's fifth-place finish with a leap of 5.70m and Theresa Lukas's 10^th place finish with a 5.23m distance.

In the javelin throw, Jadyn Bonds tallied a personal-best 43.45m distance which earned her a fourth-place finish and the fifth-longest distance in program history, alongside Lydia Seals' 36.62m distance for a sixth-place finish in the event.

On Saturday in Oxford, Bonds continued her solid weekend performance with a fourth-place finish in the high jump with a height of 1.60m, along with Aliyah Gidharry who finished her heptathlon with a first-place finish in the heptathlon javelin throw with a distance of 43.67m.

Overall, in the heptathlon that spanned across Friday and Saturday, Gidharry placed 8^th with 4,528 points and Chaci Whitfield placed 9^th with 4,279 points. Finishing out the final day of competition, Sky White placed 11^th in the 100m hurdles with a 15.55 second time for her season-best.

Jax State will be splitting up two meets next weekend as well, beginning with the Wake Forest Invitational starting next Thursday, followed by the Georgia Tech Invitational beginning next Friday.