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Big 12 Outdoor Championships
No. 1 Women's TF wins fourth straight Big 12 Outdoor title
05.14.2023 | Track & Field / Cross Country
No. 12 Men finish as runner-up and Julien Alfred named High Point Performer of the Meet.
NORMAN, Okla. – The No. 1 Texas women's track and field team won its fourth consecutive Big 12 Outdoor Championships title on Sunday, while the No. 12 men finished as the runner-up.
The Texas women scored a staggering 197 points, the second-most in Big 12 history behind the Texas women in 2021 who scored 207. The men were second to Texas Tech who finished with 179 points, while the Longhorns tallied 125.50. Sunday's women's title marks the longest win streak in Texas history for both the men and women and gave head coach Edrick Floréal his 13th Big 12 trophy in 18 championship appearances. The women have now won eight of the last nine conference meets in both indoor and outdoor.
The women were led by High Point performer Julien Alfred who scored a remarkable 22.5 points after winning the 100-meter, 200-meter and led the 4x100 relay on the opening leg.
Texas women began the day breaking their 4x100 collegiate record set at the Texas Relays with a time of 41.89. The team of Alfred, Ezinne Abba, Rhasidat Adeleke and Kevona Davis now have the two fastest times in NCAA history and both were recorded during the 2023 season.
The sprinters kept the heat on the track as Alfred won the 100-meter with the fourth-fastest 100m time in collegiate history at 10.84 seconds. She now holds two of the top four fastest collegiate 100m times in NCAA history and made it nine straight seasons the Longhorns have won the 100m dash. Davis finished as the runner-up with her time of 11.031, while Ezinne Abba ran a personal best to finish third at 11.04.
Alfred won her second individual event of the day in the 200-meter finishing with a time of 22.28 after setting the Big 12 and facility record in the prelims at 22.09. Davis added her second runner-up performance crossing the line at 22.51 and Abba finished fifth at 23.23.
The Longhorns swept the podium again in the 400-meter dash led by Ireland's national record holder Rhasidat Adeleke who won with a time of 50.58, setting the new John Jacobs Track Complex facility record. Kennedy Simon also broke the record with her second place effort of 51.22, while Lanae-Tava Thomas finished third at 51.89.
Texas won its final track event in the 4x400 led off by Simon, Rachel Helbling, Dejanea Oakley and Emelia Chatfield who finished with a time of 3:30.38. It marks the 13th time the Longhorns have won the event.
Ackelia Smith was the runner-up in the high point scorers after winning her second event of the weekend. Smith returned to the runway winning the women's triple jump on her second attempt with a jump of 13.75m (45-1.5). She now owns the top-six performances in Texas history.
Both Valery Tobias and Brooke Jaworski scored in two events on Sunday starting in the 800-meter where Tobias was the runner-up with a time of 2:05.35. Jaworski finished fourth in 2:06.18. Tobias went on to finish eighth in the 1500-meter at 4:26.96 to finish her weekend, while Jaworski also finished eighth in the 400-meter hurdles at 1:00.29.
The women's high jump was led by freshman Evelyn Lavielle who finished as the runner-up clearing a personal best bar of 1.80m (5-10.75), entering the Texas All-Time performer list at No. 10 tied with Marleen Guerrero and Beverly Owoyele. Trinity Tomlinson and Claire Moreau shared third-place after clearing 1.76m (5-9.25).
Sophomore Chrystal Herpin earned the bronze medal in the discus with her throw of 52.01m (170-08) and Kiana Lowery was sixth with a heave of 51.12m (167-08) to total nine points.
Longhorns distance scored five points in the 5000-meter run from Monica Hebner's sixth place performance (16:32.15) and Beth Ramos' seventh place finish at 16:35.62. Chatfield secured the final track points with five in the 100 hurdles with her fourth-place finish at 13.39 seconds.
The men's second-place performance was led by Yusuf Bizimana as the lone individual champion on Sunday, taking the 800-meter with a personal best time of 1:45.82. The time moved him to No. 2 on the Texas All-Time performer list and currently leads the NCAA heading into the NCAA West Preliminaries.
Crayton Carrozza did the middle-distance double finishing third in the 800m with a season best time of 1:46.71 an hour after finishing fourth in the 1500m with his time of 3:43.60.
The 4x100 relay finished in second led by John Rutledge, Nolton Shelvin, Daniel Garland and Marcellus Moore who finished with a season best time of 38.89. The time is the sixth-fastest time in Texas history.
Rutledge, the freshman, later added five individual points in the 200m with his time of 20.65 while Moore finished eighth at 21.17 for one point. Moore also added six points in the 100m finishing with the bronze medal with a time of 10.17.
Sophomore Isaac Alonzo was the eighth-best male scorer at the conference meet after finishing third in the 5000-meter run on Sunday with a time of 14:11.39. He also added a fourth-place finish in the 10K on Friday morning.
Brian Herron and Jonathan Jones combined for five points in the 400m with Herron's fifth-place time of 45.38 and Jones' eighth-place time of 46.13.
The freshmen hurdlers combined for 13 points over the weekend after Kendrick Smallwood finished fourth in the 110m hurdles (13.81w), Kody Blackwood's fourth-place finish in the 400m hurdles (50.04) moving him to No. 9 on the Texas All-Time list and Chris Brinkley's sixth-place finish at 50.99.
The Longhorns added 15 team points from the discus led by senior Sean Stavinoha's throw of 55.19m (181-01) to give him the bronze medal. Patrick Piperi scored four more points with a fifth-place throw of 53.25m (174-08), while Leo Neugebauer finished sixth at 53.08m (174-02) and freshman Jeremiah added the final point at 52.34m (171-09).
Texas' final points were recorded from sophomore Solomon Washington in the triple jump with his mark of 15.31m (50-2.75) to finish fifth.
Texas travels to Sacramento, Calif., for the NCAA West Prelims on May 24-27 before hosting the NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Championships in the second weekend of June.
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