The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
04.01.2017 | Texas Relays
Six records fell on Saturday of the 2017 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, presented by Spectrum.
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AUSTIN – A total of 14 meet records were broken during the 2017 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays, presented by Spectrum, which concluded following a thrilling day of action on Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium.
Saturday attendance: 21, 120
Perhaps the most exciting action of the day came in the pole vault, as records fell in both the women's competition and the men's elite flight. Professional Jenn Suhr won the women's meet with a stadium record height of 4.73m (15-6.5). On the men's elite side, high school junior Armand Duplantis (Lafayette, La.) set a new world junior record by clearing a height of 5.90m (19-4.25).
In the women's 100m hurdles, two collegians broke the previous meet record, which was Texas' Ashlee Williams (2005) with a time of 12.83. Running in the same heat, UTEP's Tobi Amusan (12.72) edged out Longhorn Rushelle Burton (12.80) to take home the gold.
Saturday's action started early with the high school 4x100 preliminaries where a meet record fell. Uplift Hampton out of Dallas broke the meet record in the girls' 4x100 D1 with a preliminary time of 46.80. That bested St. Mary's Academy's previous meet record of 46.82 seconds set in 2015. But, Uplift Hampton would break their meet record in the final, crossing the line in a time of 46.20 to take home gold. In the girls' 4x200 D1 race, Dallas Carter set a meet record with a time of 1:39.23. It broke the previous record set by Kennedale in 2013. In the girls' 100m hurdles D1 action, Bullis' Leah Phillips set a new Relays record with a time of 13.94. It broke the 2016 record of 14.22 set by Jernaya Sharp of the Greenhill School.
Saturday's action wrapped up an exciting four days of action at Myers Stadium. The meet began with a meet record in both the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon. Texas A&M's Lindon Victor's decathlon score of 8,472 points was also a stadium and collegiate record.
In both the men's and women's 800m invitational a new meet record was set – on the men's side UTEP's Michael Saruni did so with a time of1:45.82 while NIKE's Crishauna Williams did so on the women's side with a time of 2:02.25.
Matthew O'Neal (unattached) set the meet record in the men's triple jump, Gabriel Oladipo (Fort Bend Hightower) set the record in the boys' discus and Falyn Reaugh of Dallas Highland Park tied the record in the girls high jump.
Texas A&M's sprint medley team of Diamond Spaulding, Jaevin Reed, Kadecia Baird and Jazmine Fray set a new Texas Relays record with a time of 3:42.10. It bested Arkansas' previous record set in 2015.
2017 Most Outstanding Teams
Texas A&M men
Uplift Hampton girls
2017 Most Outstanding Performers
Lindon Victor (Texas A&M)
Armand Duplantis (Lafayette (La.))
London Culbreath (McKinney North)
