SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA men’s and women’s track and field teams will kick off the Roadrunners’ outdoor season this weekend at the Park West Athletics Complex, hosting the UTSA Invitational, Friday-Saturday, March 21-22. Admission and parking are free.
The two-day annual home meet will get underway at 10 a.m. on Friday, March 21, opening up with the men’s and then women’s javelin, followed at 2 p.m. by the hammer throw, shot put and long jump. For distance events, the teams will reconvene at 8:15 p.m. for the men’s and women’s 3,000m steeplechase, followed by the women’s and men’s 5,000-meter.
Returning to action on Saturday morning, the men’s pole vault will open field event competitions at 11 a.m., followed on a rolling schedule by the high jump, triple jump and discus. Track events begin competition at 2 p.m. with the 4x100-meter relays, then 100/110-meter hurdles, 400-meter, 100-meter, 800-meter, 400-meter hurdles, 200-meter, 1,500-meter and closing up with the 4x400-meter relays.
UTSA’s annual Senior Day recognition is scheduled for Saturday at 12 p.m. and the Roadrunners will recognize 18 seniors: Oreoluwa Adamson, Dahlia Barnes, Gabriel Binion, Paul Bouey, Ibiso David-West, Kiah Dubarry-Gay, Nayanna Dubarry-Gay, Dylan James, Christiaan Le Roux, Hugo Menin, Matthew Mills, Rachela Pace, Marilis Remmel, Mike Roth, Leah Smith, Garrett Stokes, Thennelle Williams and Brooke Veltman. In addition, the Roadrunners will be saying farewell to three additional seniors with completed eligibility: Michael Campbell, Shadae Findley and Noah Rhodes.
The Roadrunners will compete against athletes from East Texas A&M, Incarnate Word, North Dakota State, Our Lady of the Lake, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi and Texas A&M-Kingsville.
UTSA is fresh off the indoor season and a 92.5-point second-place finish for the women at the American Athletic Conference Indoor Championships. Two Norwegian Roadrunners advanced to the NCAA Championships on the women’s side, as freshman Mia Lien finished 14th in the pentathlon with a score of 4,031 points and sophomore Ida Breigan earned 10th in the long jump with a measurement of 6.35m (20-10). Both athletes garnered Second Team All-America honors. At AAC Indoors, the men’s team finished in seventh with 50 points. At the AAC Championships, gold medals were garnered by Breigan (long jump, 6.53m), Nyaluet Diew (shot put, 16.16m), James (triple jump, 15.36m), Le Roux (long jump, 7.58m), Lien (pentathlon, 4,156 points), Pace (triple jump, 12.93m), the squads registering 12 overall medals awarded to the Roadrunners.
At last year’s UTSA Invitational, the Roadrunners generated 41 top-10 finishes, notching 18 medal-earning performances, which included five gold medals. The men’s team hauled in four gold medals and totaled 10 podium appearances, while the women had one gold and eight medal-worthy performances.
The UTSA Invitational will be at the Park West Athletics Complex, featuring the track stadium hosting one of only 10 Class 1 IAAF certified surfaces in the country. The facility features a Beynon Sports BSS 1000, full-pour, polyurethane surface with nine running lanes, two pole vault lanes, four jump pits, a water jump pit and separate throwing areas for all throwing events. The throwing areas and track infield feature Tifway 419 hybrid Bermuda grass sand-based fields.
The multi-use facility is located on Kyle Seale Parkway approximately two miles west of UTSA’s Main Campus and features a large parking lot, a multipurpose building with a concession stand, restrooms, ticket windows, training room and a 1,000-seat stadium with a press box.
Meet information, including the schedule, can be found here.
Live results will be available online throughout the competition and can be found here.
Up next, select Roadrunners will travel to Austin and Texas’ Mike A. Myers Stadium for the 97th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, Thursday-Saturday, March 27-29. Meanwhile, another group of Roadrunners will head up to San Marcos for the Bobcat Invitational, Thursday-Saturday, March 27-29, at the Texas State Track & Field Complex.
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