FORT WORTH, Texas – Competing in the program's first ever Sooner Athletic Conference Track & Field Championships on Friday and Saturday, the MACU Men's Track & Field team put together some outstanding performances, which included
Mohamed Zairi medaling with a third-place finish in the 1500-meter event.
Competing in just the 800-meter, 1500-meter, 5000-meter and 10,000-meter distance events, the Evangels still managed to net 28 points to finish in 10
th place as a team, finishing six points ahead of UNT Dallas and just four back of College of the Ozarks.
EVENTS
- 1500-Meter
- The Evangels opened up their championships with the 1500-meter, which end up being by far and away MACU's best event. Mohamed Zairi paced three MACU runners finishing into the top eight, running the first sub four-minute time in program history at 3:59.23 for his bronze medal placing in the 23-runner event to net MACU six points.
- Jaden Rodriguez posed a top five time as well in the 1500-meter, crossing the line in 4:03.06 to set the third-fastest in the MACU record book and net the Evangels four points.
- Alexander Pebeahsy also scored some points for the Evangels with his seventh-place finish in the event, turning in a 4:07.84 to blow away his previous personal best time of 4:16.15 netted just a week ago at the Pittsburg State Tune-Up on Apr. 17.
- Collin Seely and Cameron Pearson also ran in the event, scoring 11th and 12th place finishes with times of 4:17.36 and 4:18.71.
- 10,000-Meter
- The 10,000-Meter, the longest individual distance event in the meet, rounded out MACU's events during the Friday slate of the SAC Championships as Aidan Collins and Connor Gerth competed.
- Running their first ever collegiate 10k, Collins and Gerth scored the Evangels some points in the event as Collins came away with a sixth-place time of 34:38.31 to tally three points while Gerth finished right behind with a seventh-place score of 34:53.36, marking two more points for MACU.
- 800-Meter
- Zairi recorded his second top five finish of the SAC Championships with his run in the 1500-meter. After placing third on Friday night, Zairi added a fifth-place finish in Saturday's 800-meter with a time of 1:56.86 to just barely edge out Oklahoma City's Alexander Daly for the top five spot. The finish allowed him to score four more team points.
- Seely also competed in the event, crossing the line in 2:00.71 to place 12th in the 24-runner field.
- 5000-Meter
- Rodriguez and Pebeahsy represented MACU in its final event of the 2025 SAC Championships on Saturday afternoon.
- In a sprint to the finish, Rodriguez just narrowly missed finishing in the top four as he finished just 0.01 seconds behind John Brown's Josiah Petal with a time of 16:03.94, setting the fourth-fastest 5k time in MACU's record book.
- Pebeahsy also turned in a sixth-place finish in the 21-runner even, crossing the line in 16:06.72 to set the fifth-fastest mark in MACU's record book set his new personal best by 0.54 seconds.
RESULTS
