Celera Barnes Wins 100m, Women’s 4x800m Relay Sets USC Record At Texas Relays

Celera Barnes won the women's 100m, the women's 4x800m relay set a school record and Earnest Sears III matched his all-time outdoor best in the men's high jump during the final day of the 94th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays at Mike A. Myers Track & Soccer Stadium in Austin, Texas today (March 26).

• Celera Barnes blazed to victory in the women's 100m final with a wind-aided PR of 10.82 (+2.8w).  Her time ranks fifth all-time in any condition by an NCAA athlete. Samirah Moody took third also with a windy PR of 11.08 (+2.8w).  That compared well to the 100m Invitational winner, Olympian Gabrielle Thomas, who ran 10.92 (+2.9w).
• The Trojans got the day off in style with the women's 4x800m relay team of Janiah Brown, Gigi Maccagnini, Jemima Russell and Alyssa Brewer running a school record of 8:38.89 to place third.  Brewer had an anchor leg time of 2:06.02.  The previous record for USC was 8:45.24 set in 1987 by Michelle Taylor, Julie Seleine, Elise Lyon and Lesley Noll.
• Earnest Sears III tied his career best outdoor high jump mark of 7-5.25 (2.27m) to take third place in the men's high jump section A.   He matched his 7-5.25 mark which ranks tied for third on USC's all-time list.  He achieved that at the 2019 Pac-12 Championships. 
• Omotade Ojora took third in the men's 110m hurdles final with a wind-aided time of 13.52 (+2.6w).
• Jasmine Jones had a wind-aided time of 12.85 (+2.5w) to place fourth in the women's 100m hurdles.
• Karlee Freeman took fifth in the women's discus throw section A with a best mark of 174-5 (53.17).
• The men's 4x400m relay team of Johnnie Blockburger, Nicholas Ramey, Zach Shinnick and Davonte Burnett placed fifth in the University competition with a time of 3:06.18.
• USC's men's 4x100m relay team of Gavin Schurr, Brendon Stewart, Eric Allen Jr. and Blockburger placed sixth with a time of 39.55.
• The Trojan women's 4x100m relay team of Barnes, Moody, Chioma Okonkwo and Jan'Taijah Ford also placed sixth with a time of 44.00.

The Trojans' track and field team will next be competing at the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, Calif. on April 1-2 and at the CSUN Invitational on April 1-2.