SAN ANTONIO -- For the third time in four weeks of the indoor season, the UTSA track & field team will travel to Houston, this time for the Houston G5 & Mid-Major Invitational on Friday and Saturday, hosted by the Cougars at Bill Yeoman Field House.
The Roadrunners have participated in a pair of FasTrak events in Houston, including the FasTrak Athletix Collegiate Invitational last weekend.
UTSA will open the competition with a full day on Friday, including field, running and combined events. The combined events will start at 10 a.m. and run through 9:45 p.m. Field events will get underway at 2 p.m. and running events will open at 2:30 p.m. with the mile run. Saturday will include field, running and combined events beginning at 12:30 p.m. with the women's high jump.
UTSA will send sophomore All-American Gary Haasbroek to compete in the heptathlon a little more than a year after a record-breaking performance at the 2019 Houston Invitational at Yeoman Fieldhouse.
Haasbroek scored a school-record 5,949 points to cruise to victory by more than 600 points and set four different records. A native of Melbourne, Australia, Haasbroek broke the Australian indoor national mark, set in 2015, the meet record set in 2004, and the Yeoman Fieldhouse mark of NCAA Champion Donovan Kilmartin in 2005.
In the FasTrax Athletix last weekend at Yeoman Fieldhouse, UTSA won four events and got a school-record performance from Maia Campbell in the shot put. Freshman Amaya Scott won the women's long jump in her collegiate debut, leaping to the second-best mark in UTSA history and into the NCAA's top 20.
Sophomore Jamal Anderson, a product of San Antonio's Wagner High School, won the men's high jump, with freshman Taylor Armstrong claiming the women's 200-meter dash.
Junior All-American Danielle Spence earned her second win of the year in the triple jump, with Campbell's 15.06m (49-5) measurement in the shot put breaking the previous school record set in 2017. Junior Lacee Barnes also chipped in an indoor record, setting the mark for her native Cayman Islands in the shot put.
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