Kansas Wesleyan track and field coach Kyle Hiser has a nickname for Keegan Lott: Mr. Consistency.
Lott placed second in the shot put and discus Saturday while competing in the Coyote Challenge. He threw 46.07 meters in the discus and 15.08 in the shot put.
The effort came after winning the javelin and competing in the hammer throw on Friday night. Lott qualified for the NAIA Outdoor National Championships in the javelin earlier this season.
"He's been Mr. Consistent for us in those events," Hiser said. "He did all four throws this week, there's no other thrower in our conference let alone the country doing that. He's going to get a little rest going into next week and he's going to come back and do the same thing at (Kansas) Conference (in two weeks) in the same rings."
Dylan Worrell finished seventh in the shot put (13.81m) and Austin Baird 34th (9.50m) while Keyon Baccus took 10th in the discus (42.48m) and Baird 29th (34.64m).
Saturday also was big for KWU's hurdlers as well. Brenden Ellis placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles (58.25) and Tristan Howard fifth (58.34) and was fourth in the 110-meter hurdles (15.55).
"Brenden Ellis is a steeplechaser who always has good hurdle form, so we threw him into the 400 hurdles, and he looked like a seasoned veteran out there," Hiser said. "Tristan Howard had a huge PR (personal record) in the 110 hurdles and then came back and PR'd in the 400 hurdles, so it was a hurdle type of day out there for our group."
Brennan Allen was seventh in the 400 hurdles (1:0.59).
The 4x100-meter relay team crossed the finish line in fourth place in 42.64 seconds. The team consisted of Tyler Fontenot, Kean Dinkel, Andrew Smith and Lorenzo Vaccari – a recent and valuable addition.
"They ran their fastest time of the year and that's like our fourth iteration of that relay," Hiser said. "We've been plugging and moving things around and one athlete that stands out is Lorenzo Vaccari. Former soccer player has only run for about a month with us. He had a huge anchor leg and ran lights out so that was really cool to see."
Dinkel, a freshman, ran a sub-50 second leg in the 4x400 relay. He was joined by Wyatt Johnson, Ty Davidson and Triston Cottone.
"Kean Dinkel was big for us and Wyatt Johnson ran 48 seconds," Hiser said. "That's the fastest time we've run in about three years on that. Really cool to capitalize and end the day on that event."
A second KWU team of Ruben Rivera Agosto, Andrew Smith, Allen and Trevor Peal were fifth in the 4x400 relay (3:26.67).
Zamari Burrell sped to a 10.90 second time in the 100 meters. Dinkel was seventh (11.18), Vaccari ninth (11.25) and Fontenot 11th (11.39).
Nate Chavez placed fifth in the 400 meters (50.53), Smith was ninth (51.18), Rivero Agosto 11th (52.00), Peal 15th (52.34), Riley Garcia 18th (52.66) and Sidney Washington 24th (53.42).
Fontenot was the fourth-place finisher in the 200 meters (22.19) and Vaccari was 11th (22.54).
Darius Archuleta took fourth in the triple jump (13.26m) while Kamal Murphy was fifth (12.75m).
Archuleta also was 10th in the long jump (6.66m), Allen 22nd (5.76m) and Murphy 23rd (5.60m).
Hiser was thrilled with the way the inaugural Coyote Challenge went.
"I can't thank our administration enough for giving us the facilities, the resources, the coaching staff to do what we were able to do over these last two days," he said. "Had a lot of coaches coming up and saying you guys are doing a really good job. When it's the first time ever it's always nerve wracking but I think it went about as smooth as possible."