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Big 12 Championships
Track & Field heads to 2019 Big 12 Outdoor Championships
05.09.2019 | Track & Field / Cross Country
Longhorns will compete in Norman, Okla. from May 10-12.
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NORMAN, Okla. – The University of Texas Track and Field program heads to Norman, Okla. for the 2019 Big 12 Outdoor Championships that run from Friday, May 10 through Sunday, May 12. The Longhorn men will look for their fifth conference title in seven years, while the women's program is going for the season sweep with both an indoor and outdoor championship.
LONGHORNS AT BIG 12 OUTDOORS
- The Longhorn women have won 10 Big 12 titles since 1997.
- UT will compete for its first conference crown since the Longhorns won four out of five years from 2012-2016.
- The Longhorn men have won eight Big 12 titles throughout the conference's 22-year history.
- Texas is looking for its first conference title since 2017 when the Longhorns won three-straight from 2015-2017.
TEXAS' OUTDOOR CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS
- Four current Longhorn women have won Big 12 Outdoor conference titles in their careers: Teahna Daniels – 100m (2018, 2017); Rushelle Burton – 100mH (2018, 2017); Serenity Douglas – 4x400 (2017); Zola Golden – 4x400 (2017), 4x100 (2016).
- A total of four Longhorn men on the current roster have won a Big 12 Outdoor conference title: Sam Worley – 1500m (2018); John Rice – Steeplechase (2018); John Burt – 110mH (2018); Tripp Piperi – shot put (2018)
BEST OF THE BIG 12
- Kynnedy Flannel holds the best performance in the conference this year in the 100m and 200m. Flannel is followed by Teahna Daniels and Julien Alfred in the 100m to round out the best three performers in the Big 12 this season.
- Sophomore Sam Worley brings in the best time in the 1500m (3:38.64), which he set at the Bryan Clay Invitational in mid-April.
- John Burt put down the best performance for the Big 12 this year in the 100mH on his home track at this year's Texas Relays.
- Ashtin Zamzow holds the top performances in the heptathlon this conference season when she became the first Longhorn to ever win the event at the Texas Relays. She is also the best performer in the javelin toss.
- Tripp Piperi has the best throw in the shot put in the Big 12 on the season (21.01m/68-11.25).
IN THE FIELD
- The Big 12 Indoor Championship marks the last time for student-athletes to qualify for the NCAA West Preliminaries (Sacramento, Calif., May 23-25). To qualify, a student-athlete must be ranked in the Top 48 of their event, minus multis.
Women
- Teahna Daniels currently ranks No. 4 in the 100m and No. 26 in the 200m
- Kynnedy Flannel ranks No. 12 in the 100m and No. 3 in the 200m
- Julien Alfred comes in at No. 16 in the 100m and No. 21 in the 200m
- Zola Golden is No. 17 in the 400m
- Kennedy Simon ranks No. 24 in the 400m
- Serenity Douglas comes in at No. 40 in the 400m
- Gabby Crank is No. 8 in the 800m
- Destiny Collins is No. 29 in the 1500m
- Alex Cruz currently ranks at No. 43 in the 1500m
- Madeline Vondra sits at No. 48 in the 10,000m
- Rushelle Burton ranks No. 10 in the 100H
- Mariam Abdul-Rashid is No. 20 in the 100H and No. 23 in the 400H
- Sanique Walker comes in at No. 17 in the 400H
- Anne Sofie Kirkegaard is No. 44 in the 400H
- Anna McDonald is No. 18 in the 3000S
- Meghan Lloyd comes in at No. 43 in the 3000S
- Shay Petty is No. 20 in the PV
- Georgia Wahl is No. 33 in the LJ and No. 23 in the triple jump
- Sophia Falco ranks No. 37 in the long jump and No. 30 in the triple jump
- Elena Bruckner is No. 6 in the discus and No. 10 in the shot put
- Ashtin Zamzow currently ranks No. 1 in the heptathlon, No. 9 in the javelin toss and No. 30 in the high jump
- Virginia Preiss is No. 31 in the heptathlon
Men
- Micaiah Harris is No. 17 in 100m and No. 18 in the 200m
- Washington Brown ranks No. 23 in the 100m
- Jonathan Jones is No. 5 in the 400m this year
- Sam Worley ranks No. 4 in the 1500m
- Alex Rogers is currently No. 14 in the 3000S and No. 20 in the 5000m
- John Rice comes in at No. 20 in the 3000S
- John Burt is No. 4 in the 110mH
- Isaiah Lucas is No. 33 in the 400H.
- Steffin McCarter ranks No. 5 in the long jump this year
- Ika Morton comes in at No. 42 in the LJ
- Tripp Piperi ranks No. 4 in the shot put
- Trevor Danielson comes in at No. 4 in the javelin throw
- Barrett Poth is No. 19 in the PV
- Nick Meaders currently ranks at No. 26 in PV
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING
Head Coach Edrick Floreal: "Championships season is upon us and the hay is in the barn. The time has come to put our preparation to the test. We are in a good place as a team – that's not saying things are perfect physically – but mentally and emotionally we are a unit and ready to compete as one."
ZAMZOW NAMED TO BOWERMAN WOMEN'S MID-OCTOBER WATCH LIST
Longhorn senior heptathlete Ashtin Zamzow is among 10 national track and field standouts recently named to The Bowerman Women's Mid-Outdoor Watch List. The only Big 12 student-athlete on the list, she earned Big 12 Women's Track & Field Athlete of the Week after breaking her own Texas school record in the heptathlon at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays earlier this year. At that meet, she turned in personal-best performances in six of the seven events and broke her own school record by more than 300 points with 6,148 points over the two-day event. She also became the first-ever Longhorn to win the Texas Relays heptathlon title. Zamzow's point total was the fourth-highest in meet history as well as the seventh-best score ever by a U.S. collegian, 12th-best in NCAA history and No. 25 on the United States all-time list.
STUDENT-ATHLETE SUCCESS
Twenty-nine members of The University of Texas Track & Field team earned spots on the 2019 Academic All-Big 12 team, the Big 12 Conference announced on Tuesday. A student-athlete was required to maintain a 3.00 grade point average or higher, either cumulative or over the past two semesters, and participate in 20 percent of the Longhorns competitions to qualify for the honor. Of the Longhorns honorees, 14 Women and 11 Men earned first-team recognition while two members from each squad made the second-team.
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