ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Navy track and field teams will head into Outdoor Star Meet on a high note thanks to a terrific outing at the Navy Outdoor Invitational on Saturday at Ingram Field in Annapolis, Md. The meet did not have team scoring.
 
The Mids won 24 events in their first home meet of the outdoor season. Additionally, Navy totaled 33 IC4A / ECAC qualifying times / marks.
 
Prior to Saturday's meet, Murphy Smith set a new school record in the 10,000m at the Raleigh Relays on Thursday in Raleigh, N.C. The junior posted a time of 28:37.01 to beat the previous record by 23.79, which was set in 1997 by John Mentzer (29:00.80). Smith placed ninth overall in a field of 108 athletes.
 
Additional top-10 times in Raleigh were recorded by Alexander Kirkland and Justin Mumford. Kirkland ran the fourth-fastest 10,000m in school history (29:11.54) to finish in 38th place. Mumford placed 54th out of 198 runners in the 5,000m by clocking in the eighth-best time in team history at 13:59.29.
 
"Today was another great meet. The team put on a good show for a great crowd in our first home meet of the outdoor season. We got to work on some field and sprint events we hadn't competed in recently. It was really good to see our middle-distance and distance runners continue to click and take another step forward," said Director of Track and Field / Cross Country Jamie Cook. "Murphy Smith had a huge 10k race on Thursday to set a new school record. It wasn't only him, however. Alexander Kirkland and Justin Mumford also competed in North Carolina and both of them had great performances to set top-10 times. We sent those guys down there to get better competitive opportunities and they're really progressing well.
 
"It was great to have the team together as a whole for the first time since Patriot League Indoors. It's always fun to see the different event groups cheer each other on. We had a lot of family support today as well and that really helped drive some kids to continue to make a name for themselves. Going forward we're going to continue to get some strength work in and see where we stand as we head into Army next week."
 
Brahmir Vick recorded the lone top-10 time at the Navy Outdoor Invitational. He posted the third-fastest 110m hurdles time (13.73) in program history to win the race.
 
Vick also guided the Mids to a victory in the 4x100m relay with Nathan Kent, Nico Gonzalez-Reed and Jay Evans.
 
Taylor Woodworth, Mayu Gayton, Isabella Romasko and Jia Anderson combined to win the women's 4x100m relay with an ECAC qualifying time of 46.39.
 
Navy also claimed a win in the 4x400m relay. The squad of David Walker, Simon Alexander, Jayshon Dubose and Levi Knobloch posted a winning time of 3:19.48.
 
Annie Lemelin narrowly edged Annie Taylor in the 400m hurdles. Lemelin won the race with a time of 1:00.71. Taylor (1:00.75) crossed the finish line 0.04 seconds later to take second place.
 
Knobloch led the men's team in the 400m hurdles with a time of 54.09 to finish second overall.
 
The Mids had a big day in the 100m. Evans won the men's race with an IC4A qualifying time of 10.70. Gonzalez-Reed and Jonah Johnson both clocked in a qualifying time of 10.84 to finish in a tie for second place. The additional qualifying time was recorded by Tyler Yurich (10.89), who garnered a fourth-place finish.
 
Yurich also recorded a qualifying time in the 200m. He finished the race in 21.68 to take first place. Alexander placed second in the 200m with a qualifying time of 21.71.
 
Gayton claimed a victory in the 100m for the women's team. She ended with a time of 12.07.
 
Kylie Bedard finished the 400m in 57.06 to claim first place. Kayla McGuire (57.88) and Josephine Zink (59.12) followed behind Bedard in second and third place, respectively.
 
Luke Nester highlighted the large group of mids who ran in the 800m. He won the race with a qualifying time of 1:50.98. Also clocking in a qualifying time were Greyson Gravitt (1:51.14) and Carson Sloat (1:51.66), who placed second and third, respectively.
 
McKenna Brophy recorded the top finish for the women's team. She ended in third place with a time of 2:14.75.
 
The men's team totaled six qualifying times in the 1,500m. Sam Keeny's qualifying time of 3:50.72 helped him place first. Matt Newell finished right behind Keeny in second place with a time of 3:52.07. Sam Moultrie, Ben Countiss and Sean Miller placed fourth through sixth with times of 3:53.00, 3:53.32 and 3:53.80, respectively. Joe Reimann registered the additional qualifying time at 3:54.38 to finish in eighth place.
 
Lexi Ensor continued her impressive freshman campaign with a second-place effort in the 1,500m (4:40.58).
 
Jackson Nguyen claimed a victory in the 5,000m by recording a qualifying time of 14:27.22.
 
Joshua Boamah and Jordynn Hutchinson each won three of the throw events. Boamah compiled three qualifying marks to win the shot put (17.23m / 56' 6.5"), discus (51.62m / 169' 4") and hammer throw (61.94m / 203' 2"). Hutchinson posted a qualifying mark in her victories in the discus (46.01m / 150' 11") and hammer throw (51.22m / 168' 0"). The junior also recorded a distance of 13.02m (42' 8.75") to take first place in the shot put.
 
Collin Greene recorded a pair of qualifying distances in his two events. He placed second in the shot put with a top throw of 16.36m (53' 8.25"). Additionally, he placed third in the hammer throw with a mark of 56.59m (185' 8").
 
Taking second place in the hammer throw was Dane Vernor with a qualifying distance of 58.82m (192' 11").
 
Renny Murphy recorded another qualifying mark in the javelin at 46.03m (151' 0") to end in second place.
 
George Kalkanis won the javelin on the men's side with a throw of 55.79m (183' 0").
 
Walker Rudisaile and Alayna Schloeder continued their impressive seasons in the pole vault. Rudisaile won the men's pole vault with a qualifying height of 5.06m (16' 7.25"). Schloeder posted a qualifying mark of 3.85m (12' 7.5") to garner a first-place finish for the women's team.
 
Gracie Emerick also registered a qualifying height in the pole vault at 3.75m (12' 3.5") to place second overall.
 
Nick Simmons finished in first place in the long jump with a distance of 6.77m (22' 2.5").
 
Benjemen Schneider and Hannah Lowenstein both claimed victories in the high jump. Schneider recorded a qualifying height of 2.08m (6' 9.75"). Lowenstein finished just 0.01m short of setting a top-10 mark. She ended with a height of 1.70m (5' 7").
 
The Mids will look to win another two Stars next weekend when they travel to West Point, N.Y., to battle Army in the annual Outdoor Star Meet, which is part of the Army-Navy Star Series presented by USAA. A start time for the meet is to be announced.