SAN ANTONIO ? The UTSA men’s track & field team returns to action this week, as a majority of the squad will make the short trip to Houston for the Rice Twilight on Thursday while a handful of Roadrunners will travel to Philadelphia, Pa., to competein the 114th annual Penn Relays on Thursday-Saturday.
The sixth annual Rice Twilight Meet gets underway with the field eventsat 2 p.m. and the running events at 6 p.m. on Thursday at Rice TrackStadium. For complete meet information and results, please click here.
One of the top annual track events in the world, the Penn Relays will be held at Franklin Field near the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. UTSA will send seniors Steven Brown, Cedric Harris, sophomore Teddy Williams and freshman John Matthews to compete in the 400-meter relay with the preliminary round set for 12:25 p.m. (CT) on Friday. Brown and Williams also are entered in the 100m with those prelims set for 2:15 p.m. on Friday. For complete meet information and results, please click here.
The Roadrunners are coming off a solid showing at the Texas Twilight last Saturday in Austin, highlighted by Brown’s winning and regional-qualifying leap of 24-1 1/2 in the long jump. Williams sprinted to a third-place effort, tops among collegians, in the 200m when he crossed the tape in an NCAA Regional 21.07, a mark that is more than a quarter-second faster than any time recorded in the Southland Conference this season. Sophomore Marcus Bibles cleared an NCAA Regional and personal-best 6-10 3/4 in the high jump, while senior Luke Johnson launched the hammer a season-long 169-0 and tossed the shot put 59-3 1/4, as both finished second in their respective events. Junior Tommy Wolfe tied Russell Dauphin’s seven-year-old school record in the pole vault when he cleared 16-0 3/4 in finishing eighth.
