The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
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93rd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays
Track and Field closes out Texas Relays
03.27.2021 | Track & Field / Cross Country
The Longhorns broke a school record in the Cleburne Price Jr. Men’s 4x400-meter Invitational.
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Track and Field team wrapped up the 93rd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on Saturday at Mike A. Myers Stadium with individual titles and a school-record relay performance.
The Longhorns' school record came in the final event of the meet – the Cleburne Price Jr. Men's 4x400-meter Invitational, where (in order) Jon Maas, Micaiah Harris, Jonathan Jones and Willington Wright completed the race in a time of 3:01.28. Their mark broke a five-year-old UT record that was also originally set at the Texas Relays. The Longhorn quartet finished third in Saturday's race behind winners North Carolina A&T and runners-up LSU.
In the women's counterpart, the Sanya Richards-Ross 4x400-meter Invitational, Texas placed second with a time of 3:28.10. The Longhorns' team was made up by (in order) Serenity Douglas, Kennedy Simon, Rhasidat Adeleke and Stacey Ann Williams, and their time ranks just outside the top-20 fastest relay times in school history.
The relays portion of Saturday kicked off with the Clyde Littlefield and Carlette Guidry 4x100-meter invitationals. The Longhorns finished second in the women's race with a time of 43.04 – the ninth-fastest time in UT history. Texas' men did not finish in the Clyde Littlefield Invitational due to a dropped baton at the 200-meter mark.
In individual competition, Texas' Sophia Falco and Stacy Brown Jr. swept the two Triple Jump 'B' sections on Saturday. Both Falco and Brown Jr. won the event on their last attempts of the day. Falco first cleared 13.24m/43-5.25 (+2.9) to skyrocket from sixth to first. Brown Jr. jumped his collegiate best in the men's section, flying 15.61m/51-2.75 (+1.0) to top the leaderboard for the first time in his collegiate career.
Elena Bruckner dropped a massive personal-best throw of 17.19m/56-4.75 in Section A of the women's shot put, good for a second-place finish. Bruckner's mark solidifies her as the No. 3 performer in school history, and places her alongside Eileen Vanisi and Michelle Carter as the only UT women to hit the 17-meter mark.
Tara Davis was named the Texas Relays Women's Performer of the Meet following a collegiate-record showing in the long jump on Friday. Davis shattered Jackie Joyner-Kersee's 36-year-old mark by flying. 7.14m/23-5.25 – the fifth-best effort by an American all-time. It was the second collegiate record in as many weeks for the Agoura Hills, Calif. native as she claimed the indoor long jump collegiate record with a 6.93m/22-9 effort at the NCAA Indoor Championships on March 12 in Fayetteville, Ark.
The Longhorns are scheduled to compete at Myers Stadium again next weekend, when they host Texas A&M in a Saturday dual meet.
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