T&F Prepares for Auburn Invitational
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – The University of Miami track and fieldprogram travels to Alabama this weekend to compete in the Auburn Invitational, whichwill be held at CrossPlex Indoor Track & Field Center.
“I think it’s just going to be a great meet, justbecause of the quality of the teams that are going to be there,” director oftrack and field/cross country AmyDeem said. “We’ll see the difference with the SEC and ACC. Then TCU iscoming from the Big 12 and UCF is coming from (Conference USA) so it’s going tobe a little bit higher level competition than we had at Kentucky.”
The men’s and women’s teams will each compete in a total of 12 events,including sprints, hurdles, distance, relays, throws and jumps. Field eventswill open the meet Saturday at 9 a.m., while the running events kick off at 1p.m.
Freshman thrower IsaiahSimmons will look to improve on his impressive collegiate track debut.Simmons, who finished second at last week’s Kentucky Invitational, broke VinceWilfork’s nearly 12-year-old indoor shot put record with a throw of 17.87m.
The men will have two talented 4x400m teams competing at Auburn. The Canes’4×400 team finished third last week at Kentucky.
Fresh off a second place finish in the long jump a week ago, juniorAll-American SamanthaWilliams will lead the women in both the long and triple jumps. Williams’jump of 5.94m bested her previous career indoor mark of 5.87m set at lastyear’s ACC Indoor Championships.
Junior transfer AlaineTate is one of several talented runners on the women’s side. Tate, who finishedsecond in the 800m in her Hurricane debut last week, will look to improve onher 2:10.60 time.
Constructed and opened in 2011, the Birmingham CrossPlex Indoor Track &Field Center is a world-class facility featuring an aquatic center with anOlympic-sized pool, and a state-of-the-art indoor track stadium. The trackfacility features a 200-meter hydraulically banked Mondo Super X track,eight-lane sprint track, and four-lane warm-up track. There is a doubleapparatus for all field events — shot put, long jump, triple jump, pole vault,high jump.
Men’s Entries
60m
ChristianCook
PhillipDorsett
BassimEl-Sabawi
TimothyRichardson
200m
JosephRyan
400m
ChristianCook
DouglasDourado
GarrettNygren
DavinJohnson
AnthonyWolliston
Kenny Bowden
1 mile
LukeFontaine
GregKaczka
3000m
SeanPezzulo
60m high hurdles
TeQuilleJackson
4x400m
PhillipDorsett, ChristianCook, AnthonyWolliston, TeQuilleJackson
BassimEl-Sabawi, JosephRyan, GarrettNygren, Kenny Bowden
4000mDMR
GregKaczka, DavinJohnson, DouglasDourado, LukeFontaine
High jump
InnocentJacob
Long jump
TimothyRichardson
InnocentJacob
John-PatrickFriday
Triple jump
John-PatrickFriday
Shot put
IsaiahSimmons
Women’s Entries
200m
JokiraJiles
400m
ShannonWright
JamikaGlades
JasmyneKing
1 mile
LindsiArrington
60m high hurdles
JamikaGlades
AlexisWright
4x400m
JokiraJiles, TaneishaCordell, ShannonWright, AlaineTate
JamikaGlades, AlyssaMcClure, JasmyneKing, LindsiArrington
High jump
DakotaDailey-Harris
Long jump
SamanthaWilliams
NicoleCummings
ElyseHouston
Triple jump
SamanthaWilliams
AlexisWright
Shot put
AmberMonroe
Weight throw
LeaJohnson
AmberMonroe
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