T&F: Prince Breaks His Own Record in 60m Hurdles

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Big 12 Indoor Championship

T&F: Prince Breaks His Own Record in 60m Hurdles

2/28/2026 10:16:00 PM | Track & Field

Women finish 7th, men 11th in Big 12 Indoor Championships

BIG 12 FULL RESULTS

LUBBOCK, Texas – Demario Prince knew that he probably had to go under 7.50 seconds in the 60-meter hurdles to lock up a spot in the NCAA Indoor Championships.

Leaving nothing to chance, the Baylor junior sprinter broke his own school record in a blistering time of 7.46 to finish as the runner-up behind Texas Tech's Malachi Snow in Saturday's final at the Big 12 Indoor Championships.

"He ran a great race," Baylor coach Michael Ford said of Prince, who broke the record one day earlier with a 7.54 time in the semifinals. "There were five guys in the top 16 (nationally) going into the meet. It was just a great race. I'm looking forward to seeing him go to nationals and try to get his first All-American."

Prince's record-setting performance highlighted Day 2 of the Big 12 Championships, with the women women getting podium finishes from Iyanna Webb in the triple jump and Royaltee Brown and Hannah Lowe in the 60 meters to tie for seventh in the team standings with 33 points.

"We probably left 20 points on the board with (Tiriah Kelley) not running in her two events and the relay," Ford said. "We were hoping for top five, but I thought the ladies really competed and performed well today. Especially them not being in the top eight going into the meet, I thought Royaltee and Hannah did a great job in the 60."

Scoreless after the first day, the Baylor men capped off the meet with a third-place finish from the 4x400-meter relay to finish 11^th with 25 points.

In the women's 60 meters, Brown (7.34) placed fifth and Lowe (7.39) eighth to get the day started the right way. But the highlight came later in the afternoon, when sophomore Iyanna Webb moved up four spots on her final attempt to finish fifth in the triple jump with a season-best mark of 43-1 ½.

Qualifying for the finals with an opening jump of 42-8 ¾, Webb got passed by three of the other finalists and was sitting in ninth place going into her final attempt. But she uncorked a jump in the final that was more than seven inches better than her previous best coming into the meet.

"Especially on your last jump, when now you're in ninth place and not even going to score in the final, for her to have a big jump and take fifth place, that was big for us," Ford said.

That was also just 1 ½ inches shy of her career best, which came last year in the Sports Performance Center.

On the men's side, redshirt freshman Amon Malakwen won his heat and placed fifth overall in the finals of the 600-yard run with a time of 1:09.72. The Bears had three in the 200-meter finals, with Austen Diggs (20.84) fifth, Laurenz Colbert (20.92) seventh and freshman Bailey Hashmi (21.12) eighth.

In the fourth and final heat of the men's 4x400 relay, the Texas Tech and Arizona State second-leg runners collided, an incident that caused one of several protests on the day. But Malik Franklin avoided the pile-up and ran a 46.63-second split that had the Bears nipping at Kansas State's heels.

Aren Spencer (46.86) and Abbas Ali (46.41) also had sub-47 splits before sophomore Tyler Honeyman ran a 45.89-second anchor leg that helped the Bears run a season-best time of 3:05.77 that left them in third place overall, but just 17 hundredths of a second behind K-State.

"I thought the relay ran as clean as we could with the fall and all that," Ford said. "But I thought they ran really well – 46 (seconds) across the board, and then Tyler ended up going 45 on the end. I think the fall prevented us from running fast. We knew it was going to take a 3:02, 3:03 to get to nationals, but I was really proud of them. We talked before the race, you guys are the defending champs, this is one of the things we do really well. Let's get out and perform."

Although he didn't make the podium, freshman Kingston Williams had PRs in five of the seven events in the heptathlon and recorded a personal-best 5,317 points, which is the second-most in program history.

Next up for the Bears will be a trip to the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 13-14 in Fayetteville, Ark., with Prince, Kelley and Big 12 champion pole vaulter Molly Haywood expected to be Baylor's qualifiers.

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ALL-BIG 12
Men
Demario Prince, 2^nd, 60 hurdles
Amon Malakwen, 5^th,600-yard run
Austen Diggs, 5^th, 200 meters
Laurenz Colbert, 7^th, 200 meters
Bailey Hashmi, 8^th, 200 meters
Aren Spencer, Malik Franklin, Abbas Ali, Tyler Honeyman, 3rd, 4x400 relay

Women
Molly Haywood, 1st, pole vault
Tenly Kuhn, 2nd, pole vault
Janae De Gannes, 3rd, long jump
Iyanna Webb, 5th, triple jump
Royaltee Brown, 5^th, 200 meters
Hannah Lowe, 8^th, 200 meters

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