@CanesTrack Ready for Tom Jones Meet
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Miami track and field program is back in action this Friday, competing at the Tom Jones Memorial Meet.
The Hurricanes return to Percy Beard Track on the University of Florida campus for the second time this season after previously competing at the Florida Relays from March 31-April 2. The Tom Jones Memorial Meet is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., with the men’s hammer, women’s discus, women’s pole vault and women’s long jump. Running events are set to kick off at 1 p.m., with the women’s 100m hurdles preliminaries.
Miami heads to Gainesville off a bye week in which it trained in preparation for the back end of the 2016 outdoor season. The Canes had previously competed four consecutive weeks, including three home meets: the Hurricane Invitational, the Hurricane Twilight Invitational and the Hurricane Alumni Invitational.
The 13th-ranked Hurricane women head into this weekend’s meet as the top-ranked team in the ACC. Miami’s women will be led by a host of contributors including NCAA pole vault leader Alysha Newman, ACC 400m leader Shakima Wimbley and ACC high jump leader Dakota Dailey-Harris. The Canes will also feature outstanding athletes like hurdler Ebony Morrison, sprinter Aiyanna Stiverne and throwers Precious Ogunleye and Tiffany Okieme.
On the men’s side, Miami will look for jumpers John-Patrick Friday and Innocent Jacob, as well as throwers Gian Piero Ragonesi, Carlos Mangum and Isaiah Simmons, to lead the way. Ragonesi is the ACC leader in the shot put and ranks third in discus, while Friday and Jacob each have jumps that rank in the top three in the conference. Mangum and Simmons are also two of the top throwers in the conference and will look to continue their success this weekend. Miami will also have sprinters Isaiah Taylor, Henri Delauze and Jaalen Jones looking to make some noise on the track in Gainesville Friday.
Following this weekend’s action in Gainesville, the Hurricanes will travel to Baton Rouge, La., to compete in the LSU Invitational. The meet at LSU will be Miami’s final competition before the ACC Outdoor Championships on May 13-15.
Miami Entries
Men
100m: Isaiah Taylor, Andreas Christodoulou
200m: Breon Mullings, Henri Delauze, Joseph Ryan, Anthony Wolliston
400m: Henri Delauze
800m: Tom Gassner
3000m: Sean Grossman
110m HH: TeQuille Jackson
400m IH: Ibrahim Dodo, TeQuille Jackson
4x100m: TeQuille Jackson, Breon Mullings, Isaiah Taylor, Jaalen Jones
4x400m: Ibrahim Dodo, Jaalen Jones, Joseph Ryan, Anthony Wolliston
Long Jump: Innocent Jacob
Triple Jump: John-Patrick Friday
Pole Vault: Nick Catchur, Andreas Christodoulou
Shot Put: Gian Piero Ragonesi, Isaiah Simmons
Discus: Gian Piero Ragonesi, Andreas Christodoulou
Hammer: Carlos Mangum, Isaiah Simmons
Women
100m: Carolyn Brown, Anna Runia, Trishelle Leacock
200m: Aiyanna Stiverne, Stefani Kerrison, Carolyn Brown, Trishelle Leacock, Destiny Washington, Erin Ford, Ebony Morrison, Anna Runia, Shakima Wimbley
400m: Shakima Wimbley, Brittny Ellis, Aiyanna Stiverne, Destiny Washington
1500m: Anne Den Otter
3000m: Carla Rodriguez
100m HH: Ebony Morrison, Stefani Kerrison, Jamika Glades, Lateisha Philson, Amy Taintor
400m IH: Jamika Glades, Samantha Gonzalez
4x100m: Carolyn Brown, Trishelle Leacock, Erin Ford, Anna Runia
4x400m: Samantha Gonzalez, Jamika Glades, Brittny Ellis, Erin Ford
High Jump: Dakota Dailey-Harris, Stefani Kerrison, Amy Taintor
Long Jump: Amy Taintor
Triple Jump: Alexis Wright, Niara Hill
Pole Vault: Alysha Newman, Amanda Gale, Emily Gale
Shot Put: Precious Ogunleye, Tiffany Okieme
Discus: Precious Ogunleye
Hammer: Tiffany Okieme, Precious Ogunleye
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