LOUISVILLE, Ky. – In its final event before the Horizon League Conference Championships next weekend, the Milwaukee men's track & field team closed out day two of the Clark Wood Open hosted by the University of Louisville on Saturday afternoon.
 
Golden Cotton made history on the day as he eclipsed the program record in the 100m dash with a time of 10.44 in the finals of the event.

"The team took some really good steps forward heading into our conference championship weekend," noted head coach Andrew Basler on both events for the Panthers this weekend. "If you look across all of the events, there were a lot of personal bests or near personal bests and we are definitely setting ourselves up to have a pretty successful weekend next week."
 
Cotton registered a 10.54 mark in the preliminaries to qualify for the finals, and ultimately broke the record in the finals with the 10.44 mark as he took fourth in the finals.
 
In addition to Cotton, Isaac Dauffenbach had a 10.88 and Anthony Kessler had a 10.94 in the prelims.
 
Dane Nelson also set a new career-best with a 14.43 in the finals of the 110m hurdles, as he moved into ninth place on the all-time Panther list. Nelson took fifth in the finals while Chris Hudnall also had a 14.66 for a new PR in the finals as the pair both improved on their preliminary times.
 
The men's 1500m run saw Carter Eckhoff led Milwaukee with a personal-best time of 3:58.44, while Nate Griepentrog also clocked with a PR time at a 4:09.87. In the men's 400m dash, Caleb Henry took seventh with a 48.53, while Zac Schmidt was able to cross the line with a 49.83.
 
The 4x100m relay saw Anderson, Cotton, Dauffenbach and Kessler recorded a time of 41.03, for a new season-best time.
 
In the 4x400m relay, the Panthers took fourth with a time of 3:23.45 as the quartet featured Henry, Nelson, Schmidt, and Edgardo Valdes Gonzalez. The time was just over a second off the season-best time set two weeks ago.
 
During the team's field events, Bishop Bufford fifth in the triple jump at 13.91m as he set a new career mark in the process. Evan Bartelsen and Dylan Sieloff were also fifth-place finishers as the pair tied in the seeded pole vault at 4.78 meters.
 
Wrapping up the field events, Jack Misky had an 11.71-meter toss in the shot put, while Caden Thomas took eighth in the high jump at 1.90 meters.