The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
New Balance Invitational
DMR clocks 10th fastest time to win New Balance Collegiate Invitational
02.08.2008 | Track & Field / Cross Country m, Track & Field / Cross Country
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NEW YORK -- Texas' distance-medley relay captured the event championship and met the NCAA provisional standard on day one of the New Balance Collegiate Invitational at the Armory Track.
The distance-medley relay (DMR) met the NCAA provisional standard of 9:45.70 with an event-winning time of 9:39.92. The quartet of All-American redshirt junior Kyle Miller (Katy, Texas), freshman Danzell Fortson (Fort Worth, Texas), All-American junior Jacob Hernandez (Magnolia, Texas) and defending NCAA champion miler Leo Manzano (Marble Falls, Texas) rounded the track in the fourth fastest time in the NCAA this season and the 10th-fastest time in UT school history. The group defeated DMR teams from six teams ranked in the nation's top 25 programs including No. 1 Tennessee, No. 3 Arkansas and No. 5 BYU.
Early in the day, junior transfer Tevan Everett (Bel-Aire, Kan.) finished second in the 500-meter run. He clocked 1:02.19 in his first 500 race of the year. Senior hurdler Hamza Deyaf (Richardson, Texas) joined Everett in the 500, running 1:07.08 for 33rd place.
Texas also received top-six finishes from freshman high jumper Devon Bond (Mt. Vernon, N.Y.) and redshirt senior Ryan Wilson (Wichita, Kan.). Bond cleared 6-8.25 (2.04m) for the fourth time this season and fourth-place overall. Wilson opened his final year with a sixth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run in 14:49.68.
Senior Joseph Davis (San Antonio, Texas) landed in a career-best distance in the long jump, leaping 23-0.75 (7.03m) for ninth-place. He entered the meet with a personal best mark of 22-1.5 (6.74m) from his freshman year (2005) at Texas.
Freshman combined events competitor Kenny Greaves (Coppell, Texas) cleared his personal-best height of 15-9 (4.80m) in taking seventh in the open pole vault. He also crossed the line in the 500-meter run in 1:07.53 for 43rd place.
Redshirt freshman Brandon Birdsong (Lubbock, Texas) posted UT's second-fastest 3,000-meter run time of the season. He rounded the track in 8:28.88 for 16th place. His time is just three seconds shy of All-American Jake Morse's (Arlington, Texas) time of 8:25.93 from the Houston Invitational.
Redshirt sophomore Nick Baucum (Robstown, Texas) continued to set personal bests in the shot put. Baucum improved his all-time mark for the fourth time this season, throwing 53-1.5 (16.19m) in taking 16th in Friday's event.
Junior Elliot O'Hare (Austin, Texas) cleared each hurdle in the 60-meter hurdle preliminary in 8.05.
Freshman quarter-miler Andre Thomas (St. Peters, Mo.) recorded a season-best in the 400. The first-year Longhorn registered a lifetime best mark of 48.52 for 30th place.
Redshirt sophomore Will Schroeder (San Antonio, Texas) finished 20th in 2:28.86 in his first 1,000-meter run of the year. Freshman Brian Rhodes-Devey (Slingerlands, N.Y.), who returned to his home state of New York for the first time since coming to Texas, placed 33rd in 2:30.93 in the same event.
