ATLANTA – Junior Alysiah Whittaker won the discus throw to lead Georgia State on Day 2 of the 21-team Georgia Tech Invitational at George Griffin Track on the campus of Tech.
The junior from St. Louis tossed the discus 48.47m (159-0) to win the 17-thrower competition. Her throw was the fifth-longest ever in school history, but just her third-best toss of her career. Teammates Sharonda Bryant and Alexandria Jackson were fourth and fifth to give GSU three of the top five finishers in this event.
Whittaker joins teammate LaPorscha Wells, who won the hammer throw Friday, as winners of events at the Tech Invitational.
GSUs 4x100m relay team finished third of the 10 teams with a clocking of 45.72. That quartet was Jada Steward, Ravin Gilbert, Ashlan Rosier and Katherine Randolph.
Ravin Gilbert claimed a fourth-place finish in the 100m dash in 11.85 in the finals after 11.77 in the preliminaries.
GSU had a trio of fifth-place finishes. Katherine Randolph was the fifth-collegian finisher in the 200m race with a clocking of 24.64 with teammate Jada Steward in eighth among collegians in 24.74. Nylah Chavis tied for fifth in the high jump in clearing the bar at 1.67m (5-5 ¾). The Panthers' 4x400m relay team of Katherine Robinson, Ashlan Rosier, Tyler Watson and Ravin Gilbert posted a season-best tie and finished fifth in 3:45.78. That was the third-fastest in the Sun Belt this year.
The Panthers had two sixth-place finishes. Sophomore Nuria Ramirez ran a team season-best time and personal-best time of 2:13.63 in finishing sixth among the 41 runners in the 800m race. Ramirez' time was fourth-fastest in the Sun Belt this year. Tyler Watson was sixth of 39 runners in the 400m hurdles with a time of 1:02.37.
Ashlan Rosier ran a season-best 56.31 time in the 400m run to place 17th among the 47 competitors.
