ANNAPOLIS, Md. – The Navy track and field teams will make the trip to Philadelphia, Pa., this week to compete in the 129th edition of the Penn Relays at Franklin Field. The competition begins at noon on both Thursday and Friday and 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.

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History of the Penn Relays
The first Penn Relays was held on April 21, 1895.  It is the oldest and largest track & field competition in the United States.

Franklin Field
Construction on Franklin Field finished on April 20, 1895, one day before the inaugural Penn Relays was held. Franklin Field is the oldest two-tiered stadium in the country and recognized by the NCAA as the oldest operating stadium in college sports.

Included among the other notable events held there were 18 Army-Navy football games between 1899 and 1935.

The Competition
The Penn Relays consists of over 15,000 male and female athletes competing in grade school, high school, college, Olympic development, Masters and professional races every year. The three-day carnival annually welcomes over 100,000 track and field fans to Franklin Field from across the world. 

Navy is one of eight Patriot League schools – American, Army, Boston, Bucknell, Lafayette, Lehigh and Loyola – that will be in attendance for the three-day track and field event.  The collegiate field will additionally feature teams from 21 NCAA Division I conferences, including the ACC (12 teams), Big Ten (nine teams), Big 12 (four teams) and SEC (one team).

Notable Mids Returning to Penn Relays
Last year saw the Navy quartet of Mia-Claire Kezal, Josephine Zink, Katelyn Pepin and Sophie Compton win the college distance medley championship relay event at the Penn Relays.  The runners posted a time of 11:28.03 to win the event in a time that remains the No. 2 clocking at Navy.  Pepin is the only returning member of that team slated to compete in this year's meet.

The Mids return three of their four runners – Nathan Kent, Jay Evans and Jacques Guillaume – that finished in ninth place in the 4x400m relay championship preliminaries in last year's Penn Relays. The squad compiled the second-best time in Navy history (3:06.98) at the meet. Also, Guillaume is entered in his first Penn Relays individual event this week (college 400m hurdles).

Jordynn Hutchinson will make her fourth appearance in the historic meet to compete in the shot put, hammer throw and discus. Last year, Hutchinson finished in fourth place in the hammer with a toss of 55.67m (182' 7") and fifth place in the discus at 46.60m (152' 11").

Jia Anderson is the only returning member from Navy's 2024 Penn Relays 4x100m relay team that finished in seventh place (46.84) in the college division. Anderson will also compete in the 100m hurdles for the second-straight season. She ran the fourth-fastest time in Navy history (13.72) to finish in eighth place in the finals last year in Philadelphia.

Weekly Rewind
The Mids registered five top-10 program marks last weekend at the Virginia Challenge in Charlottesville, Va.

Nathan Kent recorded Navy's only victory at the meet when he ran the ninth-fastest time in program history in the 400m (46.21).

Jacques Guillaume finished in third place in the 400m hurdles with Navy's fourth-fastest time (51.11) in school history. Guillaume now owns six of Navy's top-10 400m hurdles times.

The men's 4x100m relay team that consisted of Jackson, Kent, Jonah Johnson and Tyler Yurich posted the second-fastest time (39.74) in Navy history to finish in second place.
Murphy Smith clocked a career-best and the eighth-fastest 5,000m time in Navy history in 13:57.43.

Sophie Compton recorded the fourth-best 5,000m time in program history with a 16:26.67.

Additionally, May McConkey recorded a time of 36:33.17 to place fourth in the 10,000m run in what was her first career race in the event.

Marcel Jackson finished in eighth place in the 100m with a time of 10.37, his efforts were good enough to claim the final spot in the finals. Jackson went on to secure fourth-place in the finals with a time of 10.40.

Navy also played host to the Navy Spring Invitational last weekend. The Mids totaled 30 event wins over the two days.

Updated Rankings
The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) released its weekly Mid-Atlantic Regional Rankings. The men's team improved one spot to No. 3 and the women's team maintained its seventh-ranked status.

The Navy squads are each ranked first in the Patriot League in the latest USTFCCCA conference ranking for the fourth-consecutive week.

The men's team owns eight top marks in the league (100m, 200m, 400m, 10k, 400m hurdles, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay, decathlon) and the women's team owns four top marks (100m hurdles, 3,000m steeplechase, 4x100m relay, high jump).

Men
100m – 10.37 / Marcel Jackson

200m – 20.82 / Nathan Kent

400m – 46.21 / Nathan Kent

10,000m – 28:23.81 / Murphy Smith

400m hurdles – 50.76 / Jacques Guillaume

4x100m relay – 39.64 / Marcel Jackson, Nathan Kent, Jonah Johnson, Tyler Yurich

4x400m relay – 3:09.36 / Pete deJonge, Nathan Kent, Simon Alexander, Jacques Guillaume

Decathlon – 7,066 points / Nick Simmons

Women
100m hurdles – 13.90 / Annie Lemelin

3,000m steeplechase – 10:18.95 / Olivia Lutkevich

4x100m relay – 46.20 / Isabella Romasko, Annie Lemelin, Taylor Woodworth, Jia Anderson

High Jump – 1.73m (5' 8") / Zoie Tesi