| March 16, 2006
Contact: Kyle Stephens (210) 458-4907 UTSA Relays set for Friday and Saturday at Blossom Meet Preview | UTSA Relays Home Page
SAN ANTONIO - The UTSA track and field teams host the UTSA Relays on Friday-Saturday, March 17-18, at the Virgil T. Blossom Athletic Center. The two-day meet features more than 2,000 high school, college and open competitors and begins at 11 a.m. Friday with the 100-meter hurdles in the university women’s heptathlon. Saturday’s competition gets underway with the high school girls pole vault at 8 a.m. and concludes with the men’s 4x400m relay at approximately p.m. UTSA Relays
Friday-Saturday, March 17-18
Blossom Athletic Center • San Antonio, Texas The Field:
UTSA’s men and women will take on competitors from Houston, Huston-Tillotson, Incarnate Word, Lamar, Southwestern Christian, Southwestern (N.M.) College, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Texas Lutheran, Texas-Permian Basin, Texas Southern, Texas State and Wisconsin-River Falls in the non-scored meet.
Results:
Results will be posted on UTSA’s official athletics web site — goUTSA.com — approximately one hour following the conclusion of each day’s competition.
Indoor Recap:
UTSA enjoyed another successful season on both sides during the indoor campaign. The men captured the program’s first-ever Southland Conference Indoor championship in February, scoring 111 points to edge Sam Houston State (104.33) and defending champion Stephen F. Austin (103). Individually, senior Brandon Buteaux won his second consecutive heptathlon crown and advanced to the NCAA Indoor where he finished 12th, while sophomore transfer Mthobisi Baloyi grabbed gold in the 800m. Senior Ryanne Dupree earned her third All-America certificate with a fourth-place finish in the pentathlon at the NCAA Indoor last Saturday. She broke her own school record with 4,193 points, just 94 points behind the winner. Dupree also was named SLC Indoor Athlete of the Year after scoring a meet-high 28.5 points in winning the pentathlon, finishing second in the high jump and 100m hurdles and eighth in the long jump. She also anchored the 4x400m relay to third as UTSA finished fifth in the team race.
SLC Accolades:
UTSA athletes have been honored as Southland Conference Athletes of the Week twice in 2006. Dupree garnered weekly honors on the women’s side on Jan. 31 after breaking her own school records in the 60m hurdles and pentathlon at Zia Classic Multis/New Mexico Invitational. One week later, Buteaux won the men’s award after winning the heptathlon with an NCAA provisional qualifier (5,202) at the Houston Indoor Invitational.
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