Inside HOKIE SPORTS | Vol. 12 No. 4 | March 2020

inside.hokiesports.com 15 at his final ACC Championships—he doesn’t have outdoor track eligibility remaining—and he made the most of it. Seufer won two gold medals, taking the title in the 3,000 and the 5,000. Seufer won the 5,000 in a time of 13:58.28, and he defended his 2019 title in the 3,000 with a time of 7:59.09. He became the first Tech runner to win the 3,000 at back-to-back ACC Championships. Seufer was named the ACC’s Men’s Track MVP. He concluded his career with five ACC gold medals in track and field. “We’re going tomiss hima lot,” Cianelli said. “He’s had a phenomenal career. He’s going to go down as one of the best we’ve ever had—not just in his event area, but overall. He’s certainly right up there with all the all-time greats we’ve had in our program. He’s been just a pleasure to work with and watch compete. Wish we could keep him around a little longer, but at some point, they move on. You can’t keep them forever. But he’s been the foundation for our distance program the past couple of years.” Tech’s other gold medalist was Jacory Patterson, who is one the best 400 runners in the country and won the event in a time of 45.66 seconds. The sophomore from Columbia, South Carolina claimed the third ACC gold medal of his career—all in the 400—and he holds the fifth-best time in the nation in the event. “He’s a very talented kid, but he’s willing to do the other things,” Cianelli said. “I think that’s the difference between his freshman and sophomore year. This year, he’s taken a more professional approach to the sport off the track, as far as taking care of himself physically, doing the little things, the boring things—stretching, nutrition, all that stuff that, for teenagers, isn’t always fun. But he’s embraced that, and he realizes he can be world-class. “Personally, in my career, I’ve never had someone in his event area that has just the overall talent and upside that he has … and he’s just now kind of getting things figured out and starting to show his talent.” Other medalists for the Hokies included Bashir Mosavel-Lo, who claimed a silver medal in the 800 with a time of 1:50.15—just 13-hundredths of a second from a gold medal—and the distance medley relay team of Jack Joyce, Patrick Atwell, Thierry Siewe Yanga and Mosavel-Lo, which won a silver medal with a time of 9:46.28. In addition, Antonio Lopez Segura won a bronze medal in the 3,000 with a time of 8:06.43; Harrison Rice won a bronze medal in the pole vault (5.28 meters); and the 4x400-meter relay team of Miles Green, Tyreke Sapp, Patrick Forest and Jacory Patterson came in third with a time of 3:07.79. “I think the guys were disappointed because they were going for the win, which I kind of like in a way,” Cianelli said. “They realized that, yeah, there were some areas where we left some points out there, and we had some injuries. We needed a perfect meet to challenge Florida State, and we didn’t have that—and they did, so that was the result. You just never know. Even if we had had that type of meet, it still might not have been enough. “We had some really great performances, and the effort was great. I was happy with how the guys competed and how they fought. We just came up a little short, and you have to give Florida State credit. They had a great meet.” Peter Seufer won two gold medals at the ACC Indoor Championships en route to being name the event’s track MVP.