SAN ANTONIO ? The UTSA men’s track & field team heads to Houston for the second week in a row when it participates at Friday's Leonard Hilton Memorial. The Roadrunners will send 30athletes to Bill Yeoman Field House and they will compete in a total of 15 events.
Field competition gets underway at 11 a.m. and running events commence at 3:20 p.m. The Roadrunners will square off against athletes from Houston, Houston Baptist, Lamar, Northwood, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Sam Houston State, Stephen F. Austin, Texas, Texas-Pan American, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas Southern and Texas State.
UTSA is coming off a successful first weekend that saw them place fourth with a partial squad at the Houston Opener. Sophomore Teddy Williams broke the Southland Conference's 60 metersrecord to highlight the individual performances. The SLC Men's Athlete of the Week shattered his own school record when hestopped the clock in an NCAA provisional 6.66 in winning the 60-meterdash. His performance bettered Jared Connaughton's (UT Arlington)former mark of 6.68 set during the 2006 campaign. The Tyler native'stime is the third-fastest in the NCAA this year and it broke the UTSAmark of 6.71 he set at last year's SLC Championships. Senior Luke Johnson was the Roadrunners' other winner of the day, as he
recorded a toss of 16.54m (54-3 ?) in the shot put. Johnson also
finished third in the weight throw with a 16.16m measurement (53-?).
Senior Will Vese, who had the fastest qualifying time of the day in the
60-meter hurdles (8.06), just missed first-place honors in the finals
by one one-hundredth of second when he crossed the tape in 7.97.
Meanwhile, sophomore Bryan Ugochukwu finished second in the 800 meters
when he clocked a 1:56.44.