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NCAA Indoor Championships
No. 10/3 Track and Field wraps NCAA Indoor Championships
03.13.2021 | Track & Field / Cross Country
The Longhorns placed eighth (25 points) in the women’s standings, and 14th (12 points) in the men’s.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The No. 10/3 Texas Track and Field program conclude the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships on Saturday, finishing eighth in the women's standings with 25 team points and 14th in the men's with 12 points.
Championship Saturday was highlighted by 13 points from the Texas women, with 12 of those coming from Chanel Brissett and Kynnedy Flannel.
Brissett clocked 8.01 in the 60-meter hurdles final, placing third in a stacked field to score six points for Texas. Her time is tied for the fifth-fastest on UT record, and now gives her possession of four of the top five times in school history. That includes the school-record 7.89 she ran at the Big 12 Championships last month.
Flannel shined with a time of 22.64 in the 200-meter dash, the second-best time of her indoor career in the event, and finished third to score six points for Texas. Her finish is the fifth-best time on Texas record, and gives Flannel the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh-best indoor 200-meter times in school history.
Kennedy Simon was Texas' final women's scorer on Saturday, tallying one point and an eighth-place finish after clocking a 52.69 in the 400-meter race. Simon's time helped Texas break a tie with Baylor for the highest finish by a Big 12 program in the women's team standings this year.
Over the first two days of the meet, the Texas women tallied 12 points. That tally was largely made up by 10 points from Tara Davis, who won the long jump national title with a jump of 6.93m/22-9 – a collegiate record and longest in the world this season. The Longhorns also got two points from freshman Kristine Blazevica, who earned a second-place finish in the pentathlon on Thursday.
On the men's side, the Longhorns scored six points on Saturday with four of those coming from sprinter Micaiah Harris, who placed fifth in the 200-meter dash. Harris clocked a 20.43 around the Tyson Center oval, the second-fastest time of his career. He now owns the top eight indoor 200-meter times in UT history.
In addition to Harris' efforts, Texas scored one point in both the mile and 4x400-meter relay competitions. Freshman Yusuf Bizimana, competing in his first NCAA final, finished eighth with a time of 3:59.55. His time makes him just the fifth Longhorn to break the four-minute barrier multiple times indoors. In the 4x400-meter relay, the team of Jon Maas, Jonathan Jones, Harris and Willington Wright clocked a 3:07.71 – the No. 16 mark on Texas record – finish eighth in the final event of the meet.
Texas' six remaining points came from the distance medley relay on Friday, where the Horns finished third behind a school-record time of 9:23.73. That team consisted of Cruz Gomez, Jones, Brendan Hebert and Crayton Carrozza, and they broke a 15-year-old school record. It was the Longhorns' highest finish in the DMR since the 2006 team won the NCAA title with the previous record mark, and was the third-fastest time in meet history.
The Longhorns will now turn their attention toward the outdoor season, which they kicked off in Austin last weekend with the Longhorn Invitational at Mike A. Myers Stadium. Next up for Texas is a trip to San Antonio, where the team is scheduled to compete in the UTSA Invitational on March 19-20.
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