SAN ANTONIO – The UTSA track and field teams will make their first trip to College Station this outdoor season on Friday and Saturday for the 44 Farms Team Invitational at E.B. Cushing Stadium – the site of the NCAA West First Round during the final days of May.
The Roadrunners will travel a 36-athlete party to College Station, Friday, April 11 – Saturday, April 12, for the first of three meets the Aggies will host this year and the first of two College Station competitions in UTSA’s outdoor regular season. The Roadrunners will face athletes from over 30 teams, with half that field coming from power conferences. UTSA will compete with athletes from Auburn, Baylor, East Texas A&M, Eastern Michigan, Georgia, Houston, Houston Christian, Illinois, Incarnate Word, Iowa State, Lamar, Louisville, Michigan, Mississippi State, Nebraska, North Texas, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Penn State, Princeton, Sam Houston, SMU, TCU, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M, Texas State, Texas Tech, USC, UT-Arlington, Virginia Tech and Wisconsin.
Heading into the week, the Roadrunner women rank 45th nationally as a team, while the women’s long jumpers are holding steady as the No. 2 event squad in the nation. Leading the UTSA women among national rankings are freshman Mia Lien with a fifth-place, record-setting high jump of 1.82m (5-11.5), sophomore Ida Breigan with an eighth-place long jump of 6.37m (20-10.75), freshman Selma Ims in 15th with a 57.40 time in the 400m hurdles, senior Oreoluwa Adamson at 22nd in the Long Jump at 6.27m (20-7). On the men’s side, graduate student Hugo Menin sits at 25th in the 400m hurdles in a time of 51.07, while freshman Charlie Staddon is 36th in the 100m hurdles at 13.83, and the quartet of Mike Roth, Martín Kouyoumdjian, Menin and Matthew Mills rank 28th in a combined time of 3:07.25.
The first four events of the women’s heptathlon will open Friday’s competition at 11 a.m., while the men’s decathlon gets under way at 11:30 a.m. on the first five events. Friday’s field events start with the men’s hammer throw at 2 p.m. and run through the women’s shot put, while the women’s 200m opens running events at 6 p.m., leading up to a late-evening finish on the 5,000m.
Saturday will resume the heptathlon at 11:30 a.m., with the decathlon restarting at 10:30 a.m. Again the field events will start at 2 p.m. on Saturday, kicking off with the women’s hammer and closing on the women’s javelin. Running events begin at 6 p.m. with the 4x100m relays and close after 9 p.m. on the 4x400m relays.
Texas A&M Athletics will provide live results through Flash Results throughout the meet. There will be no live streaming of the meet on either day. Meet info from TAMU can be found here.
The next trip will send the Roadrunners out west for the 65th Annual Mt. SAC Relays, held in Walnut, California, April 16-19.
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