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Big 12 Championships
Track & Field wins women's Big 12 team title, men's team places third
05.13.2019 | Track & Field / Cross Country
Texas women secure first outdoor and indoor sweep since 2016
NORMAN, Okla. – With a 115-point final day surge, Texas Women's Track & Field pulled away for a 15.5-point victory at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships on Sunday. The victory capped a Big 12 Indoor and Outdoor title sweep for the Longhorn women, the first time the Texas women have accomplished that since 2016 and record seventh time in league history. Led by four individual champions, the Longhorn men scored 120 points and finished third.
Texas had eight individual championships during the three-day meet, topped by double victories from senior's Teahna Daniels (100m/200m) and Ashtin Zamzow (heptathlon/javelin). Daniels, who won her third-straight 100-meter title, earned the meets high point scorer award with 22.5 points. Zamzow became Texas' first-ever women's Big 12 heptathlon champion and also claimed the javelin title in the midst of competing in the multi-even competition. Trevor Danielson (javelin), Trip Piperi (shot put), Steffin McCarter (long jump) and Sam Worley (1500m) registered individual wins for the Longhorn men while the women swept the 400-meter and 1,600-meter relays. Daniels ran the second leg on the victorious 400-meter relay team to garner her additional 2.5 points.
The sprints and relays proved prosperous in the Texas women's championship run. In addition to Daniels winning, Texas took the top three spots in the 100 meters with freshmen Julien Alfred and Kynnedy Flannel taking second and third. That trio also swept the top three spots in the 200 meters with Daniels getting the victory and Flannel and Alfred going two-three. Three members of the Longhorns victorious 1,600-meter relay squad finished in the top five of the open 400 meters as well with junior Serenity Douglas taking third, senior Zola Golden finishing fourth and freshman Kennedy Simon crossing the line fifth.
MEET NOTES
- The Texas women won their 11th outdoor team title in the 23-year history of the Big 12 Conference, recording the second-most points by any team in Big 12 championships history (172), trailing only the Longhorns record of 188 points set in 2003.
- The Longhorn men earned their ninth-straight top-three finish at the conference meet and 21st overall.
- Throughout her career, Daniels has now racked up seven Big 12 crowns in her time on the Forty Acres.
- Daniels and Flannel tied as the eighth-best performer in program history (22.71) in the 200m, while Alfred became the 11th-best performer in school history in the 100m (11.21).
- The Texas quartet of Anna McDonald, Meghan Lloyd, Abby Guidry and Marissa Flournoy teamed to earn 13 points for the Horns in the 3000mS.
- The Longhorns entered the 5000m trailing Kansas State in the team race with two events to go on Sunday evening, but a PR by Destiny Collins (third-place) and a 7-8 finish by Alex Cruz and Anna McDonald gave Texas the lead heading into the final relay.
- The UT women swept both relays, winning the 4x100 in a time of 43.84 and the 4x400 after crossing the line in 3:31.16.
- Freshman Jonathan Jones set a new PR (45.73) in the 400m on his way to a runner-up finish in the event.
- After taking the mile at the 2019 Big 12 Indoor Championships, sophomore Sam Worley repeated in the 1500m at the Big 12 outdoor meet with a time of 3:50.99
- Alex Rogers and John Rice picked up 23 points for Texas with their top-five finishes in the 3000mS and 5000m.
- Steffin McCarter became the fifth-best performer in school history in the long jump with a mark of 7.93m/26-0.25, setting a new personal record for the Big 12 title.
- Tripp Piperi set the 15th-best mark in school history in the shot put (20.50m/67-3.25)
- Trevor Danielson became the fifth-best performer in program history in the javelin (74.48m/244-04), setting a new stadium record.
TOP FIVE
Women
- Texas – 172
- Kansas State – 156.5
- Oklahoma – 101.5
- Texas Tech – 93
- Kansas - 73.5
Men
- Texas Tech – 164
- Iowa State – 126
- Texas – 120.5
- Kansas State – 85
- Kansas - 79
| Big 12 Champion (2019/Career) | Event (mark) |
|---|---|
| Trevor Danielson (1/1) | Javelin (74.48m/244-04) |
| Ashtin Zamzow (2/2) | Javelin (48.57m/159-04); heptathlon (5817) |
| Tripp Piperi (1/2) | Shot put (20.50m/67-03.25) |
| Steffin McCarter (1/1) | Long jump (7.93m/26-00.25) |
| Sam Worley (1/2) | 1500m (3:50.99) |
| Teahna Daniels (3/5) | 100m (11.10), 200m (22.703) |
| K. Simon, T. Daniels, J. Alfred, K. Flannel | Women's 4x100 relay (43.84) |
| S. Douglas, K. Simon, M. Abdul-Rashid, Z. Golden | Women's 4x400 relay (3:31.16) |
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