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Men's Track & Field 3/25/2018 10:15:00 AM Corey Miggins, Sports Information Director

Smith Shatters Men’s 5,000-Meter School Record at Lopez Classic

Senior DiJon Smith broke the CSU Men's 5,000-Meter Run school record this weekend at Rice's Victor Lopez Classic

CHICAGO – Senior DiJon Smith (Gary, Ind./Westside) shattered his own school record for the men's 5,000-meter run as the Chicago State track and field team fared well in Rice's Victor Lopez Classic here this weekend at Wendell D. Ley Track.

Smith recorded a time of 15:09.33 to finish fifth in the race while shaving 41 seconds off his previous mark that was set two weeks ago at the UNC Wilmington Seahawk Invitational.

The men's 4x100-meter relay team of sophomore Ricordo McKenzie (Montego Bay, Jamaica/Cornwall College), junior Carlton Sims (), and freshmen Olesson Cesalien () and Stephon Jackson () finished fifth with a time of 41.73. McKenzie also posted a seventh-place finish in the men's 200-meter dash after crossing the finish line with a time of 21.52.

In the women's 400-meter dash, senior Jocindra Glee (Orlando, Fla./Evans) placed fifth after producing a school-record time of 56.08, breaking the previous mark held by Zhate Jackson by 41 seconds.

CSU is back in action on April 6-7 with a trip to downstate Macomb for the annual Western Illinois Lee Calhoun Invitational.

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