SAC recognizes Hill-Johnson, Taylor, Hinds

Following their season-opening meet at Texas Tech's Red Raider Invitational, Wayland Baptist provided three Sooner Athletic Conference track and field athletes of the week. Cheyenne Hill-Johnson was recognized for women's track, Imani Taylor for women's field, and Tre Hinds for men's track. No men's field athlete of the week was chosen.
 
At the meet that featured Texas Tech, Houston and LSU, Hill-Johnson ran the NAIA's fastest 60-meter dash of the young season at 7.65 seconds (converted for altitude at 7.67), and the NAIA's ninth-fastest 200 at 25.18 seconds (converted for altitude and track size at 25.64). "Cheyenne looked really good," WBU coach Brian Whitlock said of the sophomore from Houston.
 
Hinds, the two-time defending NAIA national champion in the 600, turned in the NAIA's fastest 600-yard time of the season – 1 minute, 9.29 seconds (converted to 600 meters at 1:18.78) – by almost three seconds. He finished second among 31 entrants. The senior from Ashton Hall, Barbados also anchored Wayland's 4x400 relay to a time of 3:12.26 (converted to 3:15.78 for altitude and track size), which is the NAIA's best so far by more than second seconds. "As expected, Tre ran really well," Whitlock said.
 
Taylor, a freshman from Sulphur Springs, Texas, met the NAIA's "B" national qualifying standard in the long jump with a mark of 18 feet, 0-½ inch. "She has some pop," Whitlock said. "She can jump a lot better, but she looked good as a freshman."
 
The Pioneers return to Lubbock for their next meet, the Texas Tech Open, on Feb. 1 and 2.