HOMEWOOD, Ala. (May 13, 2025) – Weather altered the schedule for the SoCon Outdoor Track & Field Championships, but even after the rain stopped, there was lightning on the track. 

Micailah Cook became the first Buccaneer sprinter to win the SoCon 200m since Kyra Atkins in 2017, the first to win the 400m since Nichola Cornish in 2005, and the first Buccaneer in program history to win both in the same season to lead ETSU to a fourth-place finish at the SoCon Championships on Tuesday. 

The freshman set a personal record in the 400m with a time of 54.67 seconds, winning by nearly a full second over the field, then returned to the starting blocks less than an hour later and won the 200m in 24.27 seconds, winning by a quarter of a second. 

Cook won two of ETSU's four gold medals on day two. Tya Blake's 12.24m mark in the triple jump earned her the top step on the podium by two centimeters over Wofford's Sherika Christie to become the second Buccaneer in five years to win the event, joining Mekayla Brown in 2021. Lexi Carter's 13.28m shot put mark put her atop the field in that event, the first outdoor shot put winner for ETSU since Angie Barker in 1989 and the second Buccaneer in program history to win both the indoor and outdoor shot put in the same season, joining Barker.

Brianna Baker won silver in the heptathlon with a personal record score of 4,669 points and set a personal best in the high jump at 1.64m as part of the heptathlon. 

Elsewhere for ETSU, Akera Molette set a season best in the high jump at 1.61m to come home sixth in that event, and Tyla Nicholson followed up a PR in the hammer throw on Monday with a fifth place finish in the discus at 39.14m.  

In total, the Bucs finished with 107.5 points and finished fourth in the team standings, marking the tenth straight year the Buccaneers have finished in the top four of the ten-team event and their highest score at the outdoor championships since 2022. 

For more information on ETSU women's track & field, go to ETSUBucs.com.