ABILENE, Texas - The UT Dallas men's track & field team finished fourth, while the women were sixth at the 2023 American Southwest Conference Championships at Elmer Gray Stadium Saturday.

Results

The Comets broke six records on the final day of competition and had nine student-athletes earn All-Conference honors.

The men tallied 110 total points, finishing behind champion McMurry (261), East Texas Baptist (164) and LeTourneau (134) and ahead of Hardin-Simmons (73), Concordia Texas (46) and Ozarks (17). 

The UTD women had its best finish in the third year program, scoring 34 points. McMurry (323) won the team title, followed by HSU (191), ETBU (73), LETU (73) and CTX (46). The Comets beat out Ozarks (24).

Sophomore Sage Herrera became the first women's event winner and First Team All-ASC honoree as she won the 800 meters with a school record time of 2:17.80. She was just .98 seconds off the meet record.

Trent Sakakini repeated as the 800 meter men's champion in 1:54.40, bringing his total conference event wins to five. Graeme Maclean won the 1,500 meters for the second time in his career in 4:05.09.

Junior Rami Habbas earned All-ASC Second Team honors by finishing second with a personal-best time of 49.38 in the 400 meters. Rafe Premo, Kameron Quinn and Muaaz Makda joined Habbas on the Second Team with a second place finish in the 4x400 relay in 3:20.45. Devan Bailey was second in the 5,000 meters in 16:05.94.

Other school records included -
Tia Billingsly in 200 meter dash (5th place/26.59 seconds)
Chisom Mbah in the shot put (11th place/10.25 meters (33 ft.-7.5 in.))
Joseph Hussey in the triple jump (8th place/12.28 meters (40 ft.-3.5 in.))
Quinn, Dami Oyadiran, Chiemeka Ejikeme and Habbas in the 4x100 relay  (3rd place/41.49 seconds)
Quinn in the 100 meter dash (4th place/10.66 seconds)

Other Top Women's Performances
- Billingsly placed third in the 100 meters (12.73 seconds)
- Rebeca Betanzo was sixth in the 1,500 meters (5:15.75) and 5,000 meters (21:23.51)
- Hannah Chellali was sixth in the triple jump (9.11 meters/29 ft.-10.75 in.) and eighth in the high jump (1.25 meters/4 ft.-1.25 in.)

Other Top Men's Performers
- Nathaniel Brim in third place (1:58.26) and Justin Ardis in eighth (2:10.05) in the 800 meters.
- Griffin Davis placed fourth in the 5,000 (16:22.51)
- Christopher Castro in sixth (4:12.10) and Gavin Thomas in eighth (4:15.82) in the 1,500 meters.
- Makda in seventh (50.44 seconds) and Premo in eighth (50.89) in the 400.
- Quinn was seventh in the 200 meters (22.22 seconds)
- Jackson Tucker was eighth in the discus (36.97 meters/121 ft.-4 in.)

First Team All-ASC
Sage Herrera
Trent Sakakini
Graeme Maclean
Devan Bailey

Second Team All-ASC
Griffin Davis
Rami Habbas
Rafe Premo
Kameron Quinn
Muaaz Makda