2025 Highlights
GreenvilleTrack Club-ELITE athletes competed in the following locations during 2024:
- Greenville, SC
- Houston, TX
- Clemson, SC
- Lynchburg, VA
JANUARY
- Davonte Jett Reynolds pulled away from Coen Roberts over the final 400 meters to win the 46th edition of the Greenville Track Club's Run Downtown 5K. On a damp and cold mid-January morning Jett-Reynolds covered the somewhat hilly route in 14:35, which is the sixth fastest time in the race's long history. Roberts finished five seconds later in 14:40 with GTC-ELITE's Ryan Drew third in 14:43. His GTC-ELITE teammate Jack Mastandrea was fourth in 14:48, in his first race since the California International Marathon last month. Sergio Cuartas, who also trains with GTC-ELITE, was fifth in 14:50.
- Jason Weitzel knocked a whopping 1 minute and 32 seconds off his previous Personal Best by running 1:02:28 in the Aramco Houston Half Marathon on Sunday morning. On a cold (33 degrees) and windy morning, Jason's splits were 14:41 at 5K, 29:22 at 10K, 44:18 at 15K, 47:38 at 10-miles, and 59:21 at 20K. The 15K, 10-mile and 20K times are also the fastest times in GTC-ELITE history. Weitzel's finishing time also breaks Jack Mastandrea's GTC-ELITE program record of 1:03:49 by 1 minute and 21 seconds. That record was set only two months ago in the Indianapolis Monumental Half Marathon--the same event where Weitzel had run his previous PB of 1:04:00. In Houston, Jason placed 34th in the deepest finish in the race's long history and was the 15th USA citizen finisher among the international field.
- Davonte Jett-Reynolds and Ryan Drew placed first and third in an exciting men's 3,000-meter race in the Bob Pollock Invitational hosted by Clemson University on Saturday afternoon. Jett-Reynolds took the lead midway through the final 200-meter lap and crossed the finish line with a time of 8:01.34. He was followed closely by Georgia Tech's John Higinbotham (8:02.23) and Drew in 8:03.10. The top five finishers were between 8:01.34 and 8:03.41 as seven ran under 8:10. Davonte's time was less than 1.5 seconds off his personal best of 8:00.03 and is the second fastest in GTC-ELITE history. Ryan's time now ranks third. Between them they have eight of the top ten performances in program history.
- Davonte Jett-Reynolds took the lead after 1600 meters and ran the final 1400 meters in front as he won the men's 3000-meters in a personal best of 7:57.9. It was his second consecutive victory at the Clemson Indoor Facility this month as he previously won the Bob Pollock Invitational with a time of 8:01.34 on February 1st. Davonte's kilometer splits were: 2:41.23, 2:42.55 and 2:34.12, and he now has the top three 3000m performances and six of the top ten in GTC-ELITE's history.
- Ryan Drew returned to his alma mater at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA to compete in the Darius Dixon Memorial Indoor Meet. Ryan won the Invitational Mile with a time of 4:04.42. That time is the fastest in GTC-ELITE's Indoor Mile program history.