SAN ANTONIO ? The UTSA men's track & field team will be in search of its fourth consecutive Southland Conference Indoor Championship this weekend when it travels to Houston for the league's annual meet. The Roadrunners will attempt to become just the second program in conference history to win four indoor crowns in a row (Lamar won six straight from 1980-85).
Three-time defending SLC Men's Indoor and 2008 United States Track & Field and Cross
Country Coaches Association's Indoor South Central Region Coach of the
Year Aaron Fox will bring a contingent of 31 athletes to Bill Yeoman Fieldhouse in search of yet another title.
Leading the way will be junior All-America sprinter Teddy Williams, who enters the meet with the fourth-fastest time nationally in the 60-meter dash. Williams, the league's defending champion and SLC record-holder in the event, raced to an NCAA automatic-qualifying 6.61 in finishing second to national leader Trindon Holliday two weeks ago at the New Balance Invitational. The Tyler native also will compete in the 200m, one of four Roadrunners to run in both short sprints this weekend.
Senior co-captain Will Vese, the two-time defending 60m hurdles champion, brings the country's 18th-quickest mark into the event. The Houston native owns a top time of 7.86 this winter, which he clocked in a second-place performance at the Houston Invitational/Multis three weeks ago.
Senior Tommy Wolfe and 2008 SLC Freshman of the Year P.J. McGowen are UTSA's other returning title holders. Wolfe won the heptathlon with a career-best 5,251 points, while McGowen cleared a personal-record 7-1 (2.16m) a year ago.
Other Roadrunners to watch are juniors Bryan Ugochukwu and Johnathan Whittaker and freshman Jeffery Herron, who all rank atop the circuit's leaderboard.
Ugochukwu clocked a 1:52.50 in the 800m at the Cherry & Silver Invitational. Meanwhile, Whittaker and Herron both have cleared a league- and personal-best 6-10 ? (2.09m) this season. Whittaker, a Houston native who has three top-three performances this year, twice has accomplished the mark. He finished runner-up at the season-opening Leonard Hilton Memorial and third a week later at the Cherry & Silver Invitational. Herron posted his standard in a silver-medal effort at the Houston Invitational/Multis on Jan. 31.
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