SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA indoor track & field program continues its 2018 season on Friday, Jan. 19 at the Texas Tech Red Raider Invitational.
The event
The event, which will be contested at the Sports Performance Center in Lubbock, starts Friday at 10 a.m. with the field events. The running prelims begin at 11 a.m., followed by the finals at 12:25 p.m. The meet wraps up in the 4 p.m. hour with the running of the men's and women's 4x400m relay.
The competition
UTSA will compete against McMurry, Miami, Oral Roberts, Rutgers (W), SMU (W), Stephen F Austin, TCU, Texas A&M – Corpus Christi, Texas Tech and Texas Southern.
Quoting UTSA director of track & field Aaron Fox
"It has been roughly nine years since we have competed at an indoor meet at Texas Tech. However, with them opening their new facility, we felt the time was right to go back to Lubbock. We are excited to go compete on a very fast surface and this is a great opportunity for our student-athletes from west Texas to compete in front of their friends and families."
Roadrunners to watch
Fresh off a career-best 7.47m long jump in the season-opener and C-USA Male Field Athlete of the Week honor, Adrian Riley will look to improve on his No. 15 national ranking. Another field athlete to watch is newcomer Lacee Barnes, who set the Cayman Islands national shot put record with a hurl of 14.20m last weekend.
On the track, juniors Patrick Prince and Victoria Rausch both advanced to the finals in the 60m hurdles in the season-opening Ted Nelson Invitational. Currently, Prince's time of 8.05 and Rausch's 8.59 ranks second in Conference USA.
Results
Live results can be found HERE and final results will be available on goUTSA.com following the event.
