SAN ANTONIO – UTSA track & field opens the championship portion of its 2018 campaign on Thursday-Sunday at the 2018 Conference USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
The UTSA men are in search of their first Conference USA title since the 2015 indoor season, while the Roadrunner women are seeking their first team championship since the 1997 team captured the Southland Conference crown.
The event
The four-day meet, which is hosted by Rice University at the Owl's Wendel D. Ley Track gets underway at 2:45 p.m. on Thursday with the first four events of the women's heptathlon, while the first five events of the men's decathlon start 30 minutes later.
Friday gets started with the men's hammer throw at 2 p.m. and wraps with the running of the women's 10,000m, which is slated for a 9 p.m. start time.
The men's discus is Saturday's first field event with a 3 p.m. start time. Field events will continue into the 7 p.m. hour, concluding with the women's high jump. Track events on Saturday start at 5:30 p.m. with the men's 1,500m and conclude with the women's 3,000m steeplechase in the 9 p.m. hour.
The women's shot put opens Sunday's action at 3 p.m. The field events roll throughout the afternoon before wrapping up in the 7 p.m. hour with the women's javelin. The finals of the men's 4x100m relay starts the action on the track at 6 p.m. The 18 additional event finals will be contested over the next three hours before the women's 4x400m relay closes the championship.
All-session passes (all four days) will be sold on both Thursday and Friday with price points of $25 for adults and $15 for youth (ages 3-17). Individual day tickets are available for Saturday and Sunday with price points of $12 for adults and $7 for youth (3-17).
Roadrunner competitors
UTSA will field 97 total entries, 51 men and 46 women individual entries. The Roadrunners men and women will also compete in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays.
UTSA in the national rankings
Entering the championship portion of the outdoor season, the Roadrunners men have seven marks that rank among the top 100 nationally and the women two. Among the top-50, Adrian Riley ranks 18th in the NCAA in the decathlon and 25th in the long jump, Ty Anderson 19th in the high jump and Patrick Prince ranks 18th in the 110m hurdles.
UTSA in the NCAA West Preliminary qualifying list
After six meets a total of eight Roadrunners stand in position to qualify for the 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field West Preliminary via top-48 rankings (top 24 for relays) in the west region.
Men's qualifiers as of May 9
Patrick Prince – 110m hurdles
Ty Anderson – high jump
Quillan Haughton – high jump
Adrian Riley – long jump
Andre Douglas – triple jump
(note: Riley is also qualified to advance the national championship in the decathlon, which is not contested in the preliminary round)
Women's qualifiers as of May 9
Danielle Spence – triple jump
UTSA in the Conference USA rankings
The Roadrunners hold 51 top-10 and 23 top-5 positions on the Conference USA performance list. Prince leads the way for the Roadrunners with the league's best 110m hurdles time (13.79).
Results
Live results are available HERE and will be posted on goUTSA.com at the conclusion of each day.
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