January 17, 2008
The indoor track and field season begins this week for a limited number of Texas A&M athletes as they compete in the Leonard Hilton Memorial meet hosted by the University of Houston on Friday.
Competition for the Aggies will begin at 3 p.m. with the women?â„¢s pole vault. The first running event for A&M will be the 5,000 meters, also starting at 3 p.m. An Aggie squad running the 4 x 400 relay will conclude the meet at 8:40 p.m.
The University of Houston?â„¢s indoor facility is located on campus next to the baseball complex inside of the Yoeman Fieldhouse.
A link to the results site will be posted on the AggieAthletics.com website and is also accessible with the following link www.flashresults.com/flashtexas/lhilton08/.
Other schools entered in the meet include the host Cougars, Houston Baptist, Lamar, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Texas, Texas Lutheran, Texas-San Antonio, Texas-Pan American, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas Southern, and Texas State.
Even with a limited group the Aggies will have 23 athletes competing.
Following are the events and athletes scheduled to compete for Texas A&M:
Men
800: Michael Marek, Kevin McNab
Mile: Wes Caceras, Dusty Langwell, Kevin McNab, Graham Northcutt and Matt Ross
5,000: Ben Schulz
4 x 400: Kyle Dykhuizen, Brandon Machacek, Cade Liverman, Matt Ross
High Jump: Melvin Echard, Brandon Letsringer, Trinity Otto
Pole Vault: Brett Bennett, Chad Stoermer
Women
800: Evelyn Wing
Mile: Frances Hearn, Kathryn Hearn
5,000: Kirsten Brown, Elizabeth Slaughter
High Jump: Sarah Pierson
Pole Vault: Laura Asimakis, Jennifer Davidson
The Aggies will have a full squad competing the following weekend at the Razorback Invitational hosted by the University of Arkansas on Jan. 25-26.