SAN ANTONIO — UTSA's men's track & field team will begin postseason competition this weekend when it competes at the Conference USA Championships. The four-day meet is scheduled to get underway on Thursday with the two-day decathlon at Kidd Field on the campus of UTEP.
The first field event final is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. (CT) on Friday with the hammer and the 10,000 meters is scheduled for 10 p.m. (CT) later that night. Selected field event finals are slated to start at 4:30 p.m. (CT) on Saturday, the track preliminary heats will be contested beginning an hour and 45 minutes later and the 3,000m steeplechase will wrap up the third day of competition. Sunday's action will kick off at 2 p.m. (CT) with the remainder of the field events and the running finals will start three-and-a-half hours later (click here for the complete meet schedule).
Four Roadrunners currently sit atop the league standings.
Ty Anderson ranks first in the high jump (7-0 ¼ /2.14m), Randy Bermea leads the 400m hurdles (52.14), Patrick Prince is on top of the 110m hurdles (PR 13.79/23rd NCAA) and Gabe Vargas leads the shot put (PR 57-5 ½/17.51m).
All told, UTSA owns 13 marks that rank among the top four in the league.
Kelsey Benoit (shot put/57-3 ¾/17.47m), Barrett Brock (pole vault/16-4 ¾/5.00m) and Adrian Riley (decathlon/PR 7,318 points) all stand second in their respective events, while Tyler Finke (PR 57-2 ¾/17.44m) and the Roadrunners' 400m relay (40.09) are third.
Derek Fenton (discus/PR 171-4/52.22m), Victor Perez (hammer/UTSA-record 206-3/62.87m), Vasha Sheriff (400m/PR 46.45) and the squad's 1,600m relay (3:09) all rank fourth.
The team's top event should be the shot put, where a total of five Roadrunners — Vargas (1st), Benoit (2nd), Finke (3rd), Fenton (7th) and Mike Zuniga (8th) — come into the meet ranked among the top eight in the circuit.
UTSA has won six conference team titles, including five since the 2008 campaign, and a total of 64 individual/relay crowns in its history. The Roadrunners finished third a year ago.
