NASHVILLE – Little Rock's Troy McKnight edged a four-time All-American by the closest possible margin – one-thousandth of a second – to win gold in the 60m dash while Desmond Frazier smashed the school's shot put record by over 19 inches on the final day of the Vanderbilt Invitational.
McKnight ran 6.71 (6.706) in the 60m dash finals, clipping Florida State's Taylor Banks – a four-time All-American and eight-time All-ACC sprinter – by one-thousandth of a second to win his first-ever gold medal in the 60m dash. Banks, a junior that finished ninth in the 60m dash at the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships, ran 6.