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NCAA East Regionals
Scott Sets Second PR of the Meet, Relay Misses School Record by a Hundredth as Pitt Closes NCAA East First Round
5/30/2026 7:44:00 PM | Track & Field
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Pitt's stay at the 2026 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field East First Round wrapped Saturday with a personal-best run from Alexandria Scott, a near-miss on a school record by the women's 4x100 relay and the close of a memorable four-day run for the Panthers that produced two NCAA qualifiers, two broken school records and a string of season- and career-bests.
Scott reset her own personal best for the second time in three days, clocking 57.25 in the women's 400 hurdles quarterfinal to finish fourth in her heat and 15th overall in the East region. The sophomore came in Thursday at 57.29 — a mark that itself had been a PR and moved her to No. 2 on Pitt's all-time outdoor list. She lowered it again Saturday in the round that mattered most. Scott's two-day progression at the regional erased nearly three-tenths of a second off the personal best she carried into the meet from the ACC Outdoor Championships two weeks ago.
The women's 4x100 quartet of Maliah Edwards, Somiyah Braggs, Alma Evuna Eki and Faith Dennis came within one hundredth of a second of erasing their own school record, clocking 44.10 in the quarterfinal to finish 19th in the East. The unit set the Pitt program standard at 44.09 in the final of the ACC Outdoor Championships less than three weeks ago and matched the moment in Lexington with a virtual repeat — separated from the record book by the narrowest possible margin.
Senior Eva Baldursdottir cleared 1.76m (5-9.25) in Saturday's women's high jump semifinal to finish tied for 27th. The Reykjavik, Iceland, native earned NCAA Second Team All-America honors at the 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Friday's lone Pitt competitor, senior Uri Arnon, jumped 15.36m (50-4.75) in the men's triple jump First Round to finish 24th in the East.
Pitt heads to Eugene with two competitors in the throwing rings at Hayward Field, June 10-13: Emeka Ugwu, who became the first male in program history to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the shot put with a school-record 18.80m (61-8.25) on Wednesday, and Niya Crawford, who joined Amanda Walker as the only women in program history to advance in the shot put after throwing a school-record 16.83m (55-2.75) on Thursday. Both broke 21-year-old program records originally set in 2005.
NCAA East Region Preliminary Round
Friday (Men)
Pitt Results
Triple jump – 24. Uri Arnon 50-4.75 (15.36m)
Saturday (Women)
Pitt Results
400 hurdles – 15. Alexandria Scott 57.25
High jump – t27. Eva Baldursdottir 5-9.25 (1.76m)
400 relay – 19. Maliah Edwards, Somiyah Braggs, Alma Evuna Eki, Faith Dennis 44.10
