Rice Shines in Golden State

Thursday, April 16

Azusa, CA

Rice University

Bryan Clay Invite

4/19/2026 10:25:00 AM | Men's Track & Field

By: Anthony Roberts (ar186@rice.edu)

AZUSA – The Rice men's track and field team had a tremendous weekend against some of the top competition in the nation at this weekend's meets at the Bryan Clay, Long Beach and Tom Tellez Invites.

The distance crew had a great weekend in Azusa, running against hundreds of competitors. Jordan Edmondson led the way, finishing in seventh place in the 800m with a tremendous 1:49.31 showing.

Jackson Moran was ninth in the 1500m, while Andrew Murray finished in 17^th for the steeplechase. Ben Tijerina finished in 21^st for the 10,000m.

Over in Long Beach, Juan Marais and Jack Greaves had a fifth-place showing in the discus and javelin. Sultan Bakare finished seventh in the shot put.

Drayden Dickmann led the sprinters over at UH, finished second in the 100m.

RESULTS (Top Finishers)
Bryan Clay (Azusa)
800m (A)
7. Jordan Edmondson – 1:49.31
14. Marcus Gaitan – 1:50.13

800 (B)
13. Jackson Moran – 1:52.03
30. Matthew Gaitan – 1:52.75

1500m (Invite)
9. Jackson Moran – 3:45.52

3000m Steeplechase
17. Andrew Murray – 8:53.50

10000m
21. Ben Tijerina – 30:09.64

Long Beach
Discus
5. Juan Marais – 58.49m / 191-10

Javelin
5. Jack Greaves – 69.80m / 229-0
8. Ty Hampton – 67.47m / 221-4

Shot Put
7. Sultan Bakare – 17.63m / 57-10.25
15. Daniel Sowell – 16.67m / 54-08.25

Hammer Throw
13. Sultan Bakare – 60.69m / 199-1

Tom Tellez (UH)
100m
2. Drayden Dickmann – 10.55

400m Hurdles
4. Vincent Nnanna – 52.96

800m
3. Edward Bocock – 1:52.17

UP NEXT
Rice is set for the J. Fred Duckett Twilight Meet this Saturday at the Wendel D. Ley track.