The Tech sprinters and field event people will go to the big Tyson Invitational in F'ville this weekend - beginning tomorrow. That is a huge meet for sprinters and field events - huge fields and a great track for sprinting. In fact, the meet has become so big for sprinters that the distance runners are beginning to avoid the meet - the fields are very small for everything above the 800. So, the Tech distance runners are headed to the Music City Challenge at Vanderbilt.
Here is how is shakes out:
Music City - in the 5K, Tech has Jasmine Torres, Hattie Schunk and Jocelyn Caro for the women and Miguel Bautista and Evans Tuitoek for the men. In the men's mile, Nick Rivera (running the fast heat) and Todd Mickey. In the women's 800, Kelly McQuaid. And, in the men's 3K, Miguel Bautista and Benard Keter (running in the fastest section. I am particularly interested in seeing what Jocelyn does in the 5K and Benard does in the 3K.
In the Tyson, the fields are huge and the goal is to qualify for the "invitational" division in a race. On Friday, this is what the Tech entries look like:
Here is how is shakes out:
Music City - in the 5K, Tech has Jasmine Torres, Hattie Schunk and Jocelyn Caro for the women and Miguel Bautista and Evans Tuitoek for the men. In the men's mile, Nick Rivera (running the fast heat) and Todd Mickey. In the women's 800, Kelly McQuaid. And, in the men's 3K, Miguel Bautista and Benard Keter (running in the fastest section. I am particularly interested in seeing what Jocelyn does in the 5K and Benard does in the 3K.
In the Tyson, the fields are huge and the goal is to qualify for the "invitational" division in a race. On Friday, this is what the Tech entries look like:
- Women's long jump - Kaylee Hinton, Viershanie Latham, Gionna Jackson
- Later in the day, Shanice Stewart is jumping in the invitational LJ
- Men's long jump - Charles Brown (interesting note - former Red Raider Keneil Grant is jumping in the same section as Charles - Keneil is now at Florida State
- Men's pole vault - Antonio Ruiz and Kyle Padalecki
- Late that evening, Kyle Thompson and Brandon Bray will vault in the invitational PV
- Women's weight throw - Alexis Lewis
- Men's weight throw - Kirk Weldon
- Women's 400 - out of 12 sections, Adria Parker and Sara Limp are in the 8th section and Taylor Rockwell in the 11th section (fastest sections are first) -- no Red Raiders in the invitational section later in the evening
- Men's 400 - out of 11 sections, Kyle Collins is in the 2nd section, Steven Champlin in the 3rd section and JW Smith in the 10th section
- Later in the evening, Joseph Richards runs in the 2nd section of the invitational 400
- Women's 60H prelims (16 advance to the semis later in the day) - Shanice Stewart, Amani Nesmith, Raygen Smith and Kaylee Hinton
- Men's 60H prelims (16 move to semis) - Chris Caldwell (where is Darien Tennon - he did not run last week either)
- Women's 60 prelims (16 move to semis) - Tiffani Johnson, Marika Brown
- Men's 60 prelims (16 move to semis) - Andrew Hudson, Corey Dauphine
- Women's 800 - Maygen Smith, Hannah Bradley, Lauren Landry (all in the slowest of three sections)
- Men's 800 - Alex Foster, Vincent Crisp - both in the fastest section of the "non-invitational" race
