MC Finishes Fourth at CCS Track & Field

CCS Recap
Official Scoring

MARYVILLE – Jacob Faulkner halted a special Collegiate Conference of the South Track & Field Championships streak and picked up a gold medal in the process.
 
Faulkner soared to first place in the pole vault to highlight Maryville's Day 2 effort Thursday at the 2025 CCS Championships, held here at the Austin Coleman Piper Memorial Track. The Brentwood sophomore cleared a personal record and school record 4.12m and took home 10 points.
 
That result helped the Scots tie Huntingdon for fourth place with 102 points. Piedmont ran away with the team competition, nearly doubling Asbury's score 240 to 123. Belhaven was third with 105 points, and Covenant finished sixth with 94.
 
Second place in the pole vault went to Belhaven's Neal Terry, who saw his bid to sweep the four "jumping" events for the second straight year halted by Faulkner. Terry won gold in all four events here last year, claiming the pole vault, long jump, triple jump and high jump. He was 3-for-3 this week until finishing second to Faulkner with a clearance of 3.52m.
 
Faulkner's gold-medal vault highlighted a strong showing in that event for the Scots. Nolan Hutson finished fifth at 3.07m, Elvin Wagner sixth at 2.92m and Sam Cocchia was eighth at 2.62m. All four Maryville heights were PRs.


 
Tyler Barrett with 21 points was the Maryville men's high scorer in the meet. Barrett on Thursday finished second in the triple jump with a season-best leap of 13.12m. The Georgia senior added another season-best in the 100m dash finals, finishing sixth in 11.28 seconds. Toreaun Crenshaw was fourth in the 100m with a PR of 11.17 seconds, and he finished seventh in the 200m in 23.21 seconds. Zyon Rockett (11.50) and Zai Hart (11.90) also registered PRs in the 100, with Rockett finishing ninth and Hart 14th.
 
Maryville finished 4-5-6 in the 110m hurdles. Teddy Orton led the Scots with a time of 15.80 seconds, followed by John Siepert in 15.89 seconds. Ty Hylwa crossed in 17.23 seconds to grab sixth place. Siepert and Hylwa scored in the 400m hurdles, with Siepert fifth and Hylwa seventh. Siepert's time was 1:00.92, with Hylwa clocking 1:05.44.


 
The Scots set two PRs in the 1500m run. James LeNeve finished sixth with a PR and school record time of 4:18.09, and Paul Kanios set a PR in 16th place by clocking 4:38.59. Steve Cope ran to a PR and school record time of 16:51.60 in the 5000m and just missed scoring with a ninth-place result. Maryville's final three points on the track came in the 4x400m relay, with Julian Martinez, Siepert, Cocchia and LeNeve combining for sixth place and a season-best time of 3:45.53.

Cam Robinson and Jaden Marlin both scored twice Thursday in the field events. Robinson was fifth in the discus with a throw of 37.99m, while Marlin finished seventh in 35.55m. In the shot put, Marlin placed fifth with a heave of 11.98m, with Robinson eighth at 10.91m. Josh Lay was the top Maryville performer in the shot put, finishing fourth with a toss of 12.30m.
 
All Maryville top-three finishers earn All-CCS recognition (first place, All-CCS First Team; second place, All-CCS Second Team, etc.) for that event. Gustavo Hernandez was nominated by the Maryville coaching staff for a place on the CCS All-Sportsmanship Team.