Brodie Young Breaks Jarrin Solomon's 400 Record on Day 2 at Collegiate Classic

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Brodie Young broke a nearly 16-year-old record in the men’s 400m and the New Mexico women’s 4×400 relay put down the fastest time in program history to highlight a resurgent day for the Lobos’ sprints group on Day Two of the UNM Collegiate Classic on Saturday at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

In the first regular-season team scoring meet hosted by UNM at the ABQ Convention Center since 2019, both New Mexico teams held their own against a field that included 24 men’s and women’s squads that entered this week ranked among the Top 50 in the nation. The Lobo women (No. 24 in the nation in this week’s USTFCCCA TFRI rankings) finished 7th in the overall team score with 30 points, while the No. 20 men placed 8th with 25 points in total.

In total, the UNM women beat out six teams that ranked in the Top 50 in the nation this week in the team score, including two that ranked above them (No. 21 LSU and No. 22 TCU). The men outscored five Top-50 teams, with two being ranked above them heading into this week (No. 7 Stanford and No. 18 California). The Lobo men scored five points on Saturday, with Young’s fifth-place finish in the 400m scoring four and the 4×400 relay’s 8th-place finish adding another. The women scored nine points, getting a combined seven from Pouzancre Hoyer and Griever in the 400m and then tacking on two more with a 7th-place finish in the 4×400.

At the top of the table, No. 3 USC won the men’s team score with 101.50 points in total, while women’s No. 3 Texas Tech won with 82.33 points on the women’s side.

SPEEDY SUMMARY

• UNM athletes broke two more program records on Saturday (M 400m, W 4x400m) to go with four additional All-Time Top 10 performances (M 60 H, W 400m, M 4×400).
• In his season debut in the 400m against the best sprinting field in the nation this weekend, Brodie Young set a new Scottish indoor national record and broke Jarrin Solomon’s UNM indoor record that had stood since 2009 with a 45.96 raw time. That performance also ranks No. 13 on the British All-Time List, No. 30 among all-time collegiate performances at the ABQ Convention Center and No. 2 in Mountain West history.
• The previous Scottish record of 45.98 — held by Olympian Brian Whittle — had stood for 37 years.
• Young’s converted time of 46.07 currently ranks No. 13 in the nation, potentially moving him into individual qualifying position for NCAA Indoor Championships.
• In their first 400m races of the season, Lou-Anne Pouzancre Hoyer (52.80 raw time) and Rebecca Grieve (52.82) both posted new personal bests that moved them to No. 2 and No. 3 on the UNM all-time list and rank No. 22 and No. 24 on the NCAA D-I Indoor Qualifying List – they’re both now within a quarter-second of Tianna Holmes’ program record set in 2023. Pouzancre and Grieve now lead the Mountain West in the 400m with three weeks until MW Championships.
• Pouzancre (53.83) and Grieve (52.44) returned two hours later to run the two fastest legs of UNM’s record-breaking 4x400m relay performance alongside Sofia Pineda (54.88) and Hanna Kiess (55.30). As a whole, they put down a 3:36.44 (3:36.88 converted) – 1.51 seconds faster than the previous UNM record set in 2023. With today’s results, all of the Top Six women’s 4x400m relay times in program history have been recorded in the last three seasons (2023-present).
• Semaj Thompson moved up to No. 6 on the 60 hurdles list with a new personal best and the UNM men’s 4x400m relay ran the seventh-fastest time in program history to round out the Top 10 additions.

THE ACTION

Brodie’s first 400 of the season does not disappoint!

• New PB + UNM Program Record ⏱️ 46.07*
• @scotathletics National Record 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
• @TeamGB #13 All-Time 🇬🇧
• #30 among all-time collegiate performances at ABQCC 🐺
• 2nd-fastest in @MountainWest history 🏔️ pic.twitter.com/46xwWPZY3l

— New Mexico XC/T&F (@UNMLoboXCTF) February 8, 2025

After notching a personal best in the 200m on Friday (25.20), Laylah Lawson followed with another PB in the 60m dash, crossing in 7.65 (7.67@) to place 37th overall. Ophelia Pulley finished 48th with a 7.86 time, just four-hundredths of a second shy of a PR.

In the 60 hurdles, Semaj Thompson PR’d for the second week in a row – this time with an 8.35 raw time – to move up from No. 7 to No. 6 on the UNM all-time list. He placed 17th overall on the day after finishing fifth in a first prelim heat that saw four other runners advance.

In the women’s hurdles sections, Pietra Campbell Simoes narrowly missed out on semifinals, placing 26th – the Brazilian freshman has now ran the exact same time (8.69) in each of her first three collegiate 60H races. Adryana Shelby crossed in 8.79 to finish sixth in her heat and 28th overall.

In the men’s 400m, Young finished fifth, with all four performers ahead of him currently ranking among the Top 10 in the nation following the conclusion of the meet. He’s now leading the Mountain West in the 400 by nearly a second and a half between him and SJSU’s Christopher Coats (47.47 @) in the No. 2 spot.

Freshman Kahari Wilbon posted the next-fastest time for the Lobo men in heat 13, putting down a .16-second PR to finish 33rd overall (48.27). In the same heat as Young, freshman CJ Pizzeck notched his first collegiate PR, dipping below 50 seconds (49.94) to finish 47th.

In her 400m debut, Pouzancre Hoyer put down the second-fastest time in program history – and fastest in the Mountain West — with a 52.80 (52.91@) personal best to finish 5th overall on Saturday behind four performances that currently rank in the Top 15 in the nation. That raw time ranks:

• No. 2 on the French U23 All-Time List
• No. 5 among French women this year
• No. 5 among U23 women in Europe this year
• No. 16 on the French All-Time List

Grieve clocked a time just two-hundredths of a second behind that five heats later, a 52.82 that ranks No. 8 on the Scottish national all-time list and No. 49 among British athletes all-time as well as No. 6 behind Pouzancre Hoyer among U23 European women this year.

In the men’s triple jump, Cameron Miller fouled on his first two attempts before jumping 13.25m (43′ 5¾”) on his third – he finished 7th in his flight and 17th overall among Saturday’s competitors.

Representing UNM in the men’s “A” pole vault, Arian Milicija recorded his first collegiate improvement, jumping 4.94m (16′ 2½”) – the best indoor PV mark by a UNM athlete since Camillo Dunninger cleared 5.00m in 2022 – to finish 10th overall.

The UNM men’s 4x400m relay comprised of Kahari Wilbon, Brodie Young, Levente Soos and Semaj Thompson put down their fastest time of the year so far with a 3:11.29 (3:11.73 converted) time that ranks No. 7 on the UNM indoor list.

Up next on the women’s side, Pouzancre (53.83) and Grieve (52.44) ran the two fastest legs of UNM’s record-breaking 4x400m relay performance alongside Sofia Pineda (54.88) and Hanna Kiess (55.30) – as a whole, they crossed in 3:36.44 (3:36.88 converted) – 1.51 seconds faster than the previous UNM record set in 2023. With today’s results, all of the Top Six women’s 4x400m relay times in program history have been recorded in the last three seasons (2023-present).