SAN ANTONIO — UTSA will participate in its final meet leading up to the Conference USA Indoor Championships (Feb. 24-25 in Birmingham, Ala.) when it travels to Houston for Friday's Howie Ryan Invitational. The one-day meet will take place at Bill Yeoman Fieldhouse on the campus of the University of Houston.
The event will feature 15 NCAA Division I teams from around the region. Athletes from Alcorn State, Grambling, Jackson State, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Southern-New Orleans, Tartleton State, Texas-Rio Grande Valley, Texas-Tyler, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas Southern, Texas State and Trinity will join the Roadrunners and host Cougars along with countless other club teams and individual athletes.
Field event action is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. and will continue throughout the day, while running competition is slated to start two hours later.
Dusan Makevic's victory in the 3,000 meters with his second program record in as many weeks highlighted UTSA's two days of action at last weekend's Charlie Thomas Invitational.
One week after breaking a 21-year-old program record in the 5k, Makevic broke the tape first among the field of 35 athletes last Saturday in a school-record time of 8:08.35. That bested Olympian Roger Soler's 31-year-old mark of 8:10.09 established all the way back in 1985. The senior from Sabac, Serbia, now sits atop the Conference USA standings by more than six seconds. The performance was nearly seven seconds faster than his previous career best of 8:15.27, which he clocked during his sophomore campaign at Louisiana-Monroe.
UTSA also leads the circuit in three other events.
Makevic also leads the 5k standings with his school-record time of 14:01.36, while the distance medley relay (10:10.04) and Adrian Riley (PR 5,151 heptathlon) also sit atop the league leaderboard.
The Roadrunners stand second in four events — the pole vault (Barrett Brock/15-7 ¼/4.76m), shot put (Gabe Vargas/57-7 ¾/17.57m), weight throw (Victor Perez/61-8 ¼/18.80m) and 1,600m relay (3:11.78) — and third in the 400m (Jurmarcus Shelvin/47.76).