The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
Texas Tech Open & Multis
01.28.2022 | Track & Field / Cross Country
AUSTIN, Texas – Kristine Blazevica broke the Texas pentathlon record by 108 points at the Texas Tech Open & Multis meet on Friday with a NCAA-leading score of 4,402 points.
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Kristine Blazevica takes down the three-year record with a NCAA-leading score of 4,402 points 🤘🔥 pic.twitter.com/BiaGRRPCvf
Blazevica's started the day matching her personal-best time in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.54 seconds and a third-place finish. She followed up by winning the high jump with a personal-best mark of 1.77m (5-9.75).
The sophomore added a fourth-place finish in the shot put with a throw of 12.74m (40-11), and finished second in the long jump at 5.99m (19-8), the top collegiate scorer.
Blazevica finished her first pentathlon of the season with a personal-best time in the 800m at 2:13.43 to total 4,402 points. Her score bested Texas heptathlon national champion Ashtin Zamzow's score of 4,294 points she set in 2019
Leo Neugebauer finished the first day of the heptathlon in first place after four events and two event wins with a score of 3,440 points. The Longhorns' sophomore won the long jump with a mark of 7.37m (24-2.50) and the shot put at 15.78m (51-9.25). He added a fifth-place finish in the 60m dash with a time of 7.04 seconds and a third-place finish in the high jump at 2.03m (6-8)
Alex Loving (3,147 points), Phillip Frank (3,041 points) and Demetri Whitsett (2,877 points) also competed in Friday's heptathlon. Loving recorded a personal-best time in the 60m with a time of 6.98 seconds, a third-place finish in the long jump with a jump of 7.27m, eighth in the shot put and 12th in high jump.
Frank opened up his indoor season with a third-place finish in the 60m (7.00), a jump of 6.87m in the long jump, a throw of 11.89m in shot and a 10th-place finish in high jump at 1.97m. Whitsett competed in his first multis event as a Longhorn and finished with a personal-best 60m time at 7.11 seconds, a 6.94m (22-9.25) mark in the long jump, a throw of 10.87m(35-8) in shot put and a jump of 1.88m (6-2) in the high jump.
The final three heptathlon events will begin at 10 am in the 60m hurdles.
