EWING, N.J (5/4/25) – Buddha Payne finished second in the Discus Throw as the Kean University track & field teams competed on the final day of the New Jersey Athletic Conference Championships hosted by the College of New Jersey on Sunday.

The men's and women's teams both posted an eighth-place finish.

MEN'S EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Payne placed second and picked up eight points for the Cougars in the discus event (42.70m).
• Ayo Adejumo added two more points in the event with a seventh place finish.
• Jeremy Chocoj collected two points with a seventh place finish in the Triple Jump.
• Bakari Wiltshire, TyJay Henderson, Jamar Kemp and Kelvin Molina added two points in their 4x100 seventh place finish.
• Corey Rodriguez, Khalid Rouse, Elliot Whitney and Braelen Crump picked up three points in their 4x400 sixth place finish.
• Whitney added two points with a seventh-place finish in the High Jump.

WOMEN'S EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Sam Gonzalez picked up a point with an eighth-place finish in the 400 Hurdles.
• Sarah Knoetig, Ava Blount, Jadesola Olayinka, Chaa-Nah-Yah Brathwaite collected four points in their fifth-place finish in the 4x100 Relay.
• Gonzalez, Alondra Sanjurjo Mercado, Knoetig, and Free Daley earned three points in their sixth-place finish in the 4x400 Relay.
• Olayinka also earned three points with a sixth-place finish in the High Jump.
• Beatrice Daverso notched 3.5 points with a fifth-place finish in the Pole Vault.
• Blount earned one point in an eighth-place finish in the Long Jump.
• Brianna Harris earned two points with a seventh-place finish in the Heptathlon.

SCHOOL RECORDS BROKEN (As known in the modern era):

• Gonzalez (400 Meter Hurdles)
• Payne (Discus)
• Blount (100 Meter & 200 Meter Long Jump)
• Daley (400 Meters & 800 Meters)
• Knoetig, Blount, Olayinka, Brathwaite (4 x 100 Relay)

UP NEXT

• Kean travels to the ECAC Championships on May, 14^th.