KENOSHA, Wis. — Behind three additional individual conference crowns today, the Carthage men's track and field team took fourth place at the CCIW Indoor Track and Field Championship meet on Saturday at the Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center. Joseph White claimed the weight throw title, Alex Jarvis the championship in the triple jump, and Craig Hundley II won the mile. White was also named the CCIW Men's Field Athlete of the Meet.

Holding a lead midway through the day, the Firebirds finished with 94 total points, just behind Wheaton in third and Augustana in second. North Central won the team title after accumulating 135.5 points.

The Firebirds earned six-all-conference awards: White in the weight throw and shot put, Hundley II in the mile, Jarvis in the triple jump, Adam Kedzior in the heptathlon, and Cody Canegan in the 400.

Up next for Carthage is the Firebird Finale, which will take place next Friday, March 4 at 3 p.m. in the Tarble Athletic and Recreation Center.
 

Head Coach Josh Henry

"This meet was definitely bittersweet for us. The team really competed hard and I am proud of all of them. You could tell each and every student-athlete really put everything they had into this weekend. The individual results were impressive. We had some huge accomplishments as a program and a lot of lifetime best performances. The bitter part is where we fell in the team standings. Fourth is not where we wanted to be and for much of the day it appeared that we had a legitimate shot to finish second. However, a few things didn't go our way in the final events and we couldn't quite seal the deal. Credit to Wheaton, Augustana, and North Central who had great meets. The CCIW has incredible coaching staffs, paired with talented student-athletes, so success is certainly earned in this conference. That's what makes the individual accomplishments such as Joseph's Field Athlete of the Meet award, or the individual event titles in the shot, weight, mile, and triple jump, truly special."
 

Highlights

• Craig Hundley II won his first CCIW title today in the mile run, crossing the finish line in 4:15.05, Carthage's first-ever CCIW title in the event.
• On his final attempt in the triple jump, Alex Jarvis lept 13.66 meters to overtake first place and win Carthage's third CCIW triple jump title since the meet's inception in 2001.
• After winning the CCIW weight throw title, Joseph White set a new personal best, and narrowly missed the school record with a toss of 17.11 meters to take first place. The program has now won 11 CCIW indoor shot put titles, the most in conference history.
• White also becomes the fourth student-athlete in school history to sweep both the weight throw and shot put at the conference meet, last done by Branden Miller in 2015.
• Taking home the Men's Field Athlete of the Meet honor, White becomes the fourth Carthage student-athlete to win the honor after Derrick Guyette in 2014 and 2013, current throws coach Greg Raimondi in 2012, and Brandon Jones-Harris in 2007.
• Entering the day in fourth place through four events in the heptathlon, Adam Kedzior began the day with a third-place finish in the 55-meter hurdles, before winning the pole vault at 3.85 meters. He then closed out the day with a third-place finish in the 1,000-meter run finishing with a personal-best 4,119 points to take second place and earn all-conference.
• Kedzior's new PR of 4,119 points moves him up to fifth in school history.
• Cody Canegan placed third in the 400-meter dash today with a time of 50.53 seconds, earning all-conference honors.
• In the 200, Canegan set a new indoor personal best and took fifth place overall with a time of 22.95 seconds.
• Alassane Guisse qualified for the 55-meter hurdle finals, scoring four points for the Firebirds with a fifth-place finish.
• Granville Anderson qualified for the finals of the 55-meter dash, placing seventh overall with a new PR of 6.62 seconds, narrowly posting a top-10 time in program history.
• In the 800, Chase Upmann won his heat and placed seventh overall with a time of 1:57.78, setting a new PR.

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