RENO, Nev. – UTSA track and field’s multi-event athletes opened the 2025-26 indoor track and field season on Thursday in Reno at the Biggest Little City Indoor Track during the Silver State Invitational and Combined Event. Junior Edlin Laur made a strong start to the season on a bronze-medal pentathlon performance, while freshman Janre Jögi topped the heptathlon field after day one of competition.
Laur closed up the opening day of indoor competition for the Roadrunners with UTSA’s first medal of the season, accruing a career-best 3,788 points in the pentathlon to earn third place – notching the third-best event score in UTSA program history. Laur bolstered her score with a section victory in the high jump on a career-best height of 1.81m (5-11.25), while also earning second place in the long jump section at 5.77m (18-11.25). Freshman Sunniva Indahl finished top 10 in three sections but did not finish the event.
The UTSA men also jumped out to a hot start on the first day of heptathlon competition, with Jögi topping the field with a 3,058-point total, taking the section victory in the long jump at 7.11m (23-4), along with second-place performances in the 60-meter at 7.03 seconds and shot put on a 13.15m (43-1.75) measurement. Sophomore Finn O’Neill wrapped day one in third at 2,931 points, leaning on a shot put win with a 1.41m boost to his shot put career high and a new personal best of 13.62m (44-8.25), followed by a fourth-place career best of 1.88m (6-2) in the high jump section. Freshman Ryan Heeren is also sitting in fifth at 2,844 points after going top-5 in three events.
Heptathlon competition will conclude on Friday back in Reno with the 60-meter hurdles at 12 p.m. CT, followed by the pole vault and 1,000-meter run.
At the conclusion of the Silver State Invitational, another group of Roadrunners is set to go to work inside the Lone Star State, as a larger contingent will travel to College Station, Texas, for Saturday’s McFerrin 12-Degree Invitational at Texas A&M’s R.A. "Murray" Fasken '38 Indoor Track. After this weekend’s competitions, UTSA will resume the indoor season on January 23 at Texas A&M’s Ted Nelson Invitational.
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