Multiple Red Raiders get the indoor track season underway with world-best performances and record-breaking showings at the annual Corky Classic home meet.
LUBBOCK, Texas - The defending Big 12-champion Texas Tech Men's and Women's Track and Field teams began their title defense this week at the annual Corky Classic, hosted at the Sports Performance Center in Lubbock.
The Red Raiders lit the track ablaze in a statement showing to remind the rest of the country that Texas Tech is one of the most complete rosters in the country, even early in the season.
The meet was starred by sprint hurdler Antoine Andrews racing to a world lead in the 60m hurdles with a time of 7.49. It's the second-fastest time in Tech program history and the ninth-fastest in NCAA history.
Malachi Snow, Andrews' current teammate at Tech, narrowly holds onto the program record with his 7.46 time from last year.
Andrews improved with each of his runs in the three-round competition, posting times of 7.66, 7.57 and 7.49 to get the win and set a new bar for not just the NCAA, but the rest of the world as indoor season gets underway.
The winning mark also ties a national record for Andrews' native Bahamas.
The national stage is nothing new to the Red Raider senior, as Andrews was an Olympic semifinalist in the 110m hurdles at Paris 2024 while representing the Bahamas.
As a freshman at Tech in 2023, he was a First Team All-American in the 60m hurdles with a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor National Championships.
On the women's side, more history was made with the Red Raiders' 4x400m relay breaking a 13-year-old program record.
Mekenze Kelley, Anita Afrifa, Lovina Ewusi and Vanessa Balde combined to run 3:31.83 for a new school record that out-paced the previous best 3:33.72 run in 2013.
Other notable performances included triple jumper Johnathan Seremes leaping a world lead of 16.79m (55-1) in his Texas Tech debut, Temitope Adeshina winning the women's high jump competition by missing just one bar and topping out at 1.93m (6-4) for a new NCAA lead, and Lily Mather breaking the school record in the 1,000m run in 2:46.05.
The Red Raiders hit the track next on Friday Jan. 23 at the one-day Stan Scott Invite in Lubbock.