SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA men's track & field team will head to the West Coast this weekend for a pair of meets. The Roadrunners will compete at the three-day Mt. SAC Relays beginning on Thursday, as well as the Beach Invitational on Saturday.
The Mt. SAC Relays is an annual track & field festival that originally was an August event but now is contested in mid-April each year. The relays were started by then-track & field coach Hilmer Lodge back in 1959 and the meet attracts all levels and disciplines of the sport and several thousand athletes participate each year. Complete meet information — including entries, schedule and live results — can be found here.
Meanwhile, The Beach Invitational features some of the best athletes in the world, as they will compete at Jack Rose Track. A year ago, seven stadium records fell and several athletes who competed in the U.S. Olympic Trials and the Summer Olympic Games set 15 new meet records. Complete meet information can be found here.
The Roadrunners posted five top-five finishes at last Saturday's Houston Alumni Invitational.
The 400-meter relay team of Joseph Freeman, Jackson Brown, Aaron LeJeune and Jared Taylor led the way after clocking a time of 41.74, which was good for third place. Meanwhile, Barrett Brock cleared 16-0 ¾ (4.90m) en route to fourth place in the pole vault. Derek Fenton also placed fourth in the shot put with a career-best measurement of 53-5 (16.28m) and Kaylan Harris, who was making his season debut, added a fourth-place performance in the 400m (49.16). The squad's other top-five effort came from Jake McDaniel, who finished fifth in the javelin with a toss of 152-8 (46.53m).
