The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
University of Texas
NCAA Indoor Championships
No. 6/1 TF Preview: NCAA Indoor Championships
03.09.2023 | Track & Field / Cross Country
No. 6/1 Texas Track & Field
Fri., March 10-11
Albuquerque, New Mexico – Albuquerque Convention Center
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What's at stake: The men return to the NCAA Championships as the defending National Champions. The No. 6 men are searching for their second-ever NCAA title, while the No. 1 women are aiming for its seventh NCAA indoor title and 12th NCAA track and field title, overall. The Longhorn women finished second in last season's meet, 10 points behind Florida.
Longhorns Entries:
Women: Men:
Ezinne Abba – 60m Yusuf Bizimana – 800m, DMR
Julien Alfred – 60m, 200m, 4x400 Stacy Brown – Long Jump
Rhasidat Adeleke – 400m, 4x400 Crayton Carrozza – 800m, DMR
Kristine Blazevica – Pentathlon Cruz Gomez – DMR
Kevona Davis – 60m, 200m Camron Herron – DMR (alternate)
Rachel Helbling – 4x400 Caleb Hulbin – DMR (alternate)
Marilyn Nwora – Shot Put Jonathan Jones – 400m, DMR
Dejanea Oakley – 4x400 (alternate) Marcellus Moore – 60m
Kennedy Simon – 400, 4x400 Leo Neugebauer – Heptathlon
Ackelia Smith – Long Jump, Triple Jump Patrick Piperi – Shot Put
Lanae-Tava Thomas – 60m, 200m Rodger Rivera (DMR alternate)
Valery Tobias – 800m Solomon Washington – Long Jump
Recapping Indoor to Date: Records have fallen and have been re-written and re-written and re-written again. Big 12 Indoor Performer of the Year and Bowerman Watch List honoree, Julien Alfred, has broken her own NCAA collegiate record three times this season. She became the only collegian to ever run sub-seven seconds in the 60m (6.97) and the youngest ever to do it. She now holds the top-seven times in NCAA history. To top it off, she now holds the Texas record in the 200m as well, breaking Bianca Knight's record with her time of 22.26 to defend her Big 12 Indoor title and complete the short sprints double.
Rhasidat Adeleke has broken the historic Texas 400m record twice this season. At Big 12s, she ran the then-NCAA collegiate record with a time of 50.33. The time now ranks as the second-fastest ever in collegiate history.
Yusuf Bizmana and Crayton Carrozza lead the men with the fastest and third-fastest time in the 800m entering the NCAA meet. The pair took turns holding the Texas program record and sit as No. 1 and No. 2 in UT history.
Valery Tobias also broke two UT records this season in the 800m and the 1000m. The Big 12 1000m Champion will make her first-ever NCAA Indoor Championships appearance this weekend.
Marcellus Moore became the fastest man on campus in the 60m dash, running a time of 6.56 to break the eight-year program record.
And finally, the DMR team of Cruz Gomez, Jonathan Jones, Bizimana and Carrozza claimed the pivotal 12th-place time to reach the NCAA meet with their program-record setting performance in South Bend, Ind., with a time of
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