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NCAA Outdoor Championships
Track & Field heads to NCAA Championships with momentum
06.05.2018 | Track & Field / Cross Country
Longhorns riding success from regional into 2018 finale
NCAA Outdoor Championships
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Television Schedule
Wednesday: Men's Day 1: 2:30-10 pm - ESPN3 | 6:30-10 pm - ESPN2
Thursday: Women's Day 1: 11:50 am - 9:45 pm ESPN3 | 6-9:30 pm - ESPN2
Friday: Men's Championship Day: 2:20-9:30 pm - ESPN3 | 7:30-10 pm - ESPN
Saturday: Women's Championship Day: 1:20-7:15 pm - ESPN3 | 5:30-8 pm - ESPN
EUGENE, Ore. – National champions will be crowned this week in Eugene, Oregon, when the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships takes place from Historic Hayward Field. Action begins Wednesday and runs through Saturday for a full slate of four days of exciting action.
Texas Track & Field enters the meet ranked in the Top 15 for both the men and women. The women's team brings 11 entries to the meet while the men have nine entries set to compete. The 11 entries for the women rank as the fifth most in the meet. The men have a balance of entries but are among the national leaders with three distance runners competing. Only three schools have more men's distance runners at the NCAA Championships.
Texas is coming off a strong showing at the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds that saw Longhorns post a number of personal bests to bring momentum with them into the national championship meet.
The meet schedule continues with its featured men's and women's days with each day focused on one side of the competition. The men open the meet on Wednesday with the women on Thursday. Friday will see the conclusion of the men's meet with a team champion being crowned. The women will finish the meet on Saturday.
Fans can keep up with the action live online with live results provided by FlashResults.com. Updates on the Longhorns can be found on the team's official Twitter account @TexasTFXC. The NCAA also will be updating the meet on @NCAATrackField. Fans also are encouraged to follow and interact with the meet using the hashtag #NCAATF.
ESPN will again provide extensive coverage of the event with both live TV slots and online feeds via ESPN3.com and the ESPN app for smartphones and tablets. Check your local listings for TV times and channels. Links to online feeds can be found at ESPN3.com and TexasSports.com. ESPN will also have exclusive live feeds for most of the field events on ESPN3.com.
Fans planning to attend have multiple ticket options with single day, championship package and all-session tickets available with multiple pricing options depending on seat location. Tickets are on sale now at NCAA.com.
ESPN Broadcast Schedule
ESPN is offering extensive coverage of the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships this year. The "worldwide leader in sports" will offer live coverage on two of its television networks as well as exclusive online content on ESPN3.com and via the ESPN app. Times listed as Central. ESPN also will have live video feeds focused on field events. Links to those exclusive field event live feeds will be provided on the Longhorn's Twitter feed @TexasTFXC prior to the start of the competition.
Events to Watch
• Women's 100m Hurdles: Texas is 1 of only 2 teams to have multiple women in this event and both of them rank in the top 4 in the nation heading into the meet. Sophomore Rushelle Burton has clocked 12.64 seconds this year to rank No. 2 in the field and senior Pedrya Seymour ranks 4th at 12.72. Burton finished 3rd at this meet last year when she became the fastest freshman in NCAA history at 12.65. Seymour has a personal best of 12.62.
• Men's Shot Put: Freshman Tripp Piperi became the top freshman in Texas history winning the NCAA West Prelims with a toss of 20.41m (66-11.50). That mark moves him to No. 4 in the NCAA this season heading into the NCAA Championships. He looks to become the first freshman to win an NCAA outdoor title in the shot put since 1999.
• Men's 1500m: Freshman Sam Worley and junior Alex Rogers give Texas a pair of threats to advance to the final and score points. The last time Texas had a Top 8 finish was 2008 when 2 Longhorns finished on the podium. These former high school teammates hope to repeat that feat and give Texas some valuable points. That tandem in 2008 was Leo Manzano and Darren Brown.
• Javelin: Texas is the only school with an athlete ranked in the Top 8 in both the men's and women's javelin heading into the meet. Seniors Fabian Dohmann and Haley Crouser both look to close their careers strong for the Longhorns. Dohmann makes his 2nd appearance at the meet, his first since his freshman year in 2014, and Crouser returns after finishing 8th last year.
• Men's 3000m Steeplechase: Redshirt sophomore John Rice won his heat at NCAA West Prelims with a personal best 8:43.35 to move into the Top 10 in the NCAA this season. Texas has not had a runner make the podium in this event since 2009.
• Multi-Events: Texas is 1 of 6 schools with a male and female representative in the multi-events. Steele Wasik makes his 3rd appearance at the NCAAs and his 2nd as a Longhorn. Ashtin Zamzow returns for her 2nd time after missing last season due to injury. Texas has been a power on the men's side with multiple decathlon titles and regular Top 8 fiinshes. Zamzow looks to become the first All-American in school history for the women in the heptathlon.
Texas Track & Field Notebook
Texas Ranked Among Nation's Best
• Texas Track & Field is again among the top programs in the NCAA this season with the men ranked No. 12 in the USTFCCCA Rankings heading into the NCAA Championships. The men's squad climbed two spots while the women slid down slightly to No. 14. Texas is among the 10 programs in the country who have their men's and women's teams both ranked in the Top 15 in the nation.
• The Big 12 Conference is well represented with 4 women's teams in the Top 25, including Kansas (State (10), Kansas (15) and Oklahoma (23). For the men, Texas Tech leads the conference at No. 2. Kansas also is No. 15.
Burt to Appear on TrackTown LIVE
• Two-sport star John Burt is set to appear on TrackTown LIVE along with Interim Head Coach Tonja Buford-Bailey on Monday afternoon to preview the NCAA Championships.
• TrackTown LIVE is a joint production between TrackTown USA and USTFCCCA to preview the NCAA Championships live from Hayward Field during Monday and Tuesday practice sessions that will stream live online on ESPN3.com and Facebook LIVE.
• The show welcomes a number of top athletes from across the nation and coaches to preview their events and the meet in general. Monday's show will focus on men's events and the Tuesday show will feature the women.
• With Burt's invitation to TrackTown LIVE, Texas remains the only school to be featured on the show all five years since its inception in 2014.
• Other Longhorns featured on TrackTown LIVE have been Ryan Crouser (2014), Morolake Akinosun (2015), Courtney Okolo (2016) and Byron Robinson (2017).
• Burt enters the meet ranked No. 8 in the 110m hurdles with his wind-aided time of 13.56.
Crouser Named Academic All-District
• Senior thrower Haley Crouser was recognized for her work in the classroom and in the field as she was named to the Google Cloud Academic All-District Team.
• Crouser successfully defended her Big 12 title from last year with another win and broke the school record in the process at 55.65m (182-7). She also has won 2 other meets including a meet record at the UTSA Invitational.
• Crouser qualified for the NCAA Championships by finishing 7th at the NCAA West Prelims.
Piperi Becomes Top Texas Freshman
• Thrower Tripp Piperi is now the best freshman Longhorn in school history in the shot put, an event Texas has a long history of success in. With his toss of 20.41m (66-11.50) to win the NCAA West Prelims, Piperi also moved himself to No. 4 in the NCAA this season.
• He will be 1 of just 3 freshmen competing at NCAAs and hopes to become the first freshman to win an NCAA title in the shot put outdoors since 1999.
• Piperi now ranks 5th in school history overall, moving ahead of 4-time All-American Jacob Thormaehlen.
Women's Sprinters Among National Leaders at NCAAs
• Texas puts its depth in the women's sprints and hurdles events on display this wee at the NCAA Championships with 5 individual entries and both relays set to compete in Oregon. The Longhorns are qualified in every sprint event except for the 200m this week.
• With the 7 total sprints/hurdles and relays entries, the Texas women rank 5th overall in those categories.
• The hurdlers lead the way with 3 of those entries. Sophomore Rushelle Burton and senior Pedrya Seymour both rank in the Top 4 in the field, making Texas the only team with multiple runners in the Top 5 in the 100m hurdles.
• Senior Ariel Jones looks to make the podium again after finishing 4th last year as a junior. Jones has qualified for NCAAs all 4 years.
• Junior Teahna Daniels is set to run the 100m after winning the Big 12 Championship and finishing 7th at the NCAA West Prelims. She finished 3rd at this meet last year with a time of 11.06.
• No school has won more NCAA titles in the women's 400m and sophomore Serenity Douglas is qualified this year. She enters the meet ranked 19th in the field with a time of 51.91 seconds.
• Texas has won more 4x400m relay titles than any school as well. The Longhorns clocked 3:33.06 at the Big 12 Championship this year with the team of Douglas, Mariam Abdul-Rashid, Zola Golden and Jones.
• The Longhorns qualified their women's 4x100m relay automatically by taking 3rd in their heat at the NCAA West Prelims. The group of Burton, Daniels, Seymour and Golden clocked 43.69.
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