| Feb. 16, 2005
Contact: Kyle Stephens (210) 458-4907 Roadrunners vie for conference hardware at SLC Indoor Championships this weekend Live Results | Heat Sheets | Meet Schedule
SAN ANTONIO - The UTSA men’s and women’s track and field teams will travel to Houston, Texas, to compete in the Southland Conference Indoor Championships. The meet gets underway Friday, Feb. 18, at the University of Houston’s Bill Yeoman Field House, and continues through Saturday. An opening ceremony is scheduled for Saturday at 1:15 p.m., and the awards ceremony will be held at approximately 5 p.m. following the final event.
2004 SLC Indoor Rewind:
The UTSA women finished third with 84 points behind Texas State (128) and Stephen F. Austin (95.6). Individually, Ryanne Dupree (pentathlon), Letitia Gilkes (800m), Leticia Cerna (mile) and the distance medley relay team of Meghan Chance, Chonna Wright, Gilkes and Cerna all claimed conference gold. The Roadrunner men took sixth place with 50.5 points behind the gold-medal performance of Justin Youngblood, who won the heptathlon, was the meet high-point scorer and was later named SLC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Athlete of the Year. Texas State won the men’s team title with 119.5 points, followed by Stephen F. Austin (94) and Sam Houston State (91).
SLC Accolades:
UTSA collected five of the 10 Southland Conference Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Week honors handed out this year, led by senior Rosalind Holmes, who garnered the women’s weekly honor twice in a three-week span. Her first award came after she clocked a personal-best and NCAA provisional-qualifying 23.75 in finishing second in the 200 meters, helping the Roadrunners finish third at the Wes Kittley 6-Way on Jan. 22. Holmes repeated on Feb. 8 after breaking her own school record in the 60m with a 7.50 clocking at the Hyatt Regency Invitational in Houston. Junior All-American Ryanne Dupree also received the weekly honor after winning the pentathlon with a school-record and provisional-qualifying 3,942 points at the Houston Indoor Invitational on Jan. 28. Junior Brandon Buteaux and sophomore Larry Brooks both won SLC Men’s Indoor Athlete of the Week honors during the season. Buteaux received the award on Feb. 1 after posting a personal-best and NCAA provisional-qualifying 5,297 points in finishing third in the heptathlon at the Houston Indoor Invitational on Jan. 28-29. Brooks garnered the weekly honors one week later after breaking a nine-year old school record in the 800 meters at the New Balance Invitational on Feb. 4 in New York City. Brooks finished second in 1:50.73, eclipsing the old mark of 1:51.56 set by Sean Goetsch in 1995.
On The National Radar:
Ryanne Dupree has made her mark as one of the top young multi-event athletes in the nation. Dupree, who picked up her first All-America certificate with a seventh-place finish in the heptathlon at the 2004 NCAA Outdoor Championships, is picked to finish sixth in the pentathlon at the NCAA Indoor by Trackwire’s Gary Verigin, one of the most respected collegiate track and field prognosticators in the country. Her career-best 3,942, posted in winning the Houston Indoor Invitational, briefly led all collegians and now ranks sixth on the latest descending order list.
B&B:
It does not stand for a bed and breakfast, but for one of the top one-two punches in the Southland Conference - Larry Brooks and Brandon Buteaux. Brooks has developed into the top half-miler in the conference, having won the outdoor 800m crown last year as a true freshman. This year, Brooks, a Junior All-American, already broke the school record in the indoor 800m (1:50.73) and is the favorite to take the league title this weekend. Buteaux owns the SLC’s top mark in the heptathlon, a provisional-qualifying 5,297 posted in finishing third at the Houston Indoor Invitational. Buteaux, who finished third in the decathlon at last year’s SLC Outdoor, also could challenge for points in the open 60m hurdles and pole vault.
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