? Meet notes (.pdf)
? NCAA Championships official Web site
2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships ? June 6-9
Hornet Stadium ? Sacramento, Calif.
Roadrunners Entries
Larry Brooks, Sr., 800 meters (1:48.44/21st)
Brandon Buteaux, Sr., Decathlon (7,342/8th)
Pair Of Roadrunners Head West For National Meet: UTSA senior All-Americans Larry Brooks and Brandon Buteaux both earned invites to this year’s NCAA Outdoor Championships, as announced on Tuesday, May 29. It will mark the first appearance at the national outdoor meet for both athletes. This year’s four-day classic begins on Wednesday, June 6, at Hornet Stadium in Sacramento, Calif. Brooks was an at-large selection in the 800 meters, while Buteaux was awarded a spot in the decathlon. Both athletes will begin competition on Wednesday.
Brooks Sets School’s 800 Meters Record: Senior Larry Brooks, who earned Indoor All-America honors earlier this season, raced to a school-record 1:48.44 in the 800 meters at the Oxy Invite on May 12 and earned an at-large invitation to this year’s NCAA Championships. Running in a race that featured several professionals, including two-time defending United States Outdoor Champion Khadevis Robinson, Brooks broke Sean Goetsch’s 12-year-old mark of 1:48.68 set during the 1995 campaign and met the USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships qualifying standard (1:48.50). Entering this week’s meet, the Stafford native ranks 21st in the nation. Last month, Brooks won his third Southland Conference Championship in the last four seasons.
Buteaux Enters National Meet Eighth Nationally: Senior Brandon Buteaux, a 2005 Indoor All-American in the heptathlon, enters this week’s meet with the eighth-best score in the country. He recorded the second-best performance in UTSA history when he scored a personal-best 7,342 points in winning this year’s Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. One month later, the San Antonio native captured his second decathlon title in as many tries this season when he won his first outdoor Southland Conference Championship with 7,148 points. Buteaux is a two-time winner indoors in the heptathlon (2005, ’06).
NCAA Championships History: UTSA has scored points at five previous national meets with a 45th-place showing (six points) in 1996 being the best in the program’s 25-year history. Those five finishes have produced a pair of All-Americans ? Leonard Byrd and Justin Youngblood ? who have combined for five certificates. Byrd sandwiched a pair of seventh-place performances (45.76, 1995/45.99, ’97) in the 400 meters around a third-place effort (45.51) in 1996. Youngblood, meanwhile, posted seventh-place finishes in the decathlon in 2002 (school-record 7,642 points) and ’04 (7,588).
