Mitchell Sets PR in Weight Throw on First Night of Virginia Tech Challenge

Friday, February 19

Blacksburg, Va.

Duke University

Day One at Virginia Tech Challenge

Mitchell Sets PR in Weight Throw on First Night of Virginia Tech Challenge

2/19/2021 10:46:00 PM | Track & Field

BLACKSBURG, Va. – Freshman Moorea Mitchell recorded a new personal best and placed fourth all-time at Duke in the women's weight throw on the opening night of the Virginia Tech Challenge at Rector Field House.

Mitchell, a freshman from Sunnyvale, Calif., earned fourth overall in the weight throw with a PR mark of 16.50 meters (54-1.75 feet). The distance surpassed former Blue Devil Kim Hanauer's best mark of 16.12m (52-10.75) for the fourth in Duke indoor history, and it ranks 14th in the ACC this indoor season. Mitchell's previous best mark of 15.53m (50-11.5), set in her collegiate debut at the "Doc" Hale Virginia Tech Elite Meet, ranked fifth all-time at Duke entering Friday's event.

Redshirt-senior Ben Beatty took sixth in the men's weight throw with a distance of 17.00m (55-9.25), marking his second-best output of the season. Beatty has earned a top-10 result in all four of his weight throw events during the indoor campaign.

The Blue Devils resume action at the Virginia Tech Challenge on Saturday at 11:30 a.m., when sophomore Brynn King competes in the women's pole vault. Forty minutes later, senior Leigha Torino will represent Duke in the women's 800m at the Camel City Invitational in Winston-Salem, N.C.

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