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2007 SLC Indoor Championships • Feb. 16-17
Bill Yeoman Field House • Houston, Texas
Roadrunners to defend conference indoor title this weekend: The UTSA men’s track & field team will defend its 2006 Southland Conference Championship, its first indoor title in school history, this weekend at the SLC Indoor Championships in Houston. Twenty-four Roadrunners will travel to Bill Yeoman Field House for the two-day meet that begins on Friday morning.
Vese among nation’s leaders in 60-meter hurdles: Junior hurdler Will Vese enters this weekend’s meet with the top 60-meter hurdles time in the conference (7.85) and the 14th-best mark nationally. The Houston native opened the year with a career-best and NCAA provisional-qualifying time of 7.85 in finishing second at the Arkansas Invitational on Jan. 12. That mark has remained atop the conference leader board all season and it is the league’s lone sub-eight-second time. All told, Vese has recorded three provisional times this year, two of which have happened at Bill Yeoman Field House, the site of this weekend’s meet. He finished second in the event last year and also will run in the 200 meters this weekend.
Brooks among top 15 nationally: Senior middle distance runner Larry Brooks leads the league (1:49.62) and ranks 15th in the country in the 800 meters. A 2007 co-captain, he finished second in the event a year ago. Brooks, who has claimed two SLC outdoor 800-meter titles (2004, ’06), also will be a part of UTSA’s 1,600-meter and distance medley relay teams this weekend.
Griffin third roadrunner leading conference: Sophomore Gaston Griffin leads the SLC with his time of 47.28 in the 400 meters, which he set at the Northern Arizona Team Challenge on Jan. 26. In fact, three Roadrunners rank among the top four in the event, as senior Scott Briscoe stands second (48.58) and junior Dominic Brown is fourth (49.11). Griffin, who finished second last year in the event, also will compete in the 200 meters and 1,600-meter relay this weekend.
Freshmen record breakers: A pair of true freshman — sprinter Teddy Williams and triple jumper Alton St. Rose — enter this weekend’s meet having set school records earlier in the season. Williams raced to a school-record 6.74 (6.78 altitude adjustment) at the Northern Arizona Team Challenge on Jan. 26, while St. Rose first broke the UTSA record on Jan. 12 at the Arkansas Invitational (14.50m). He later increased the mark to 14.57m at the NAU Team Challenge. Both athletes rank among the top five in the league in their respective event (Williams, third/St. Rose, fifth).
2006 recap: Behind individual titles from Mthobisi Baloyi and All-American Brandon Buteaux, UTSA captured its first-ever Southland Conference Indoor Championship on Feb. 18 a year ago. In a tight team race that came down to the final event, the Roadrunners scored 111 points to edge Sam Houston State (104.3) and defending champion Stephen F. Austin (103). Head coach Aaron Fox was named SLC Indoor Coach of the Year following the meet.
