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Aggies visit UCLA for team scored Jim Bush Collegiate Invitational
Apr 13, 2017 | Track and Field
LOS ANGELES – Competition in the Jim Bush Collegiate Invitational on Saturday, April 15, takes the nationally-ranked Texas A&M track and field team to Drake Stadium on the UCLA campus where the Aggies are part of a five-team scored meet along with Alabama, Arizona State and UTEP.
Field events begin at 8:30 a.m. (PT) while running events start at 2:15 p.m. Event scoring in the meet will follow a 10-8-6-4-2-1 format in individual events and 10-8-6-4-2 in relay events. Results will be available at finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com.
Last season the Aggies faced UCLA in a dual meet with Texas A&M sweeping team victories over the Bruins. The Aggie men won 94-51 while the women prevailed 81-64.
This year Texas A&M enters the meet with the men ranked second and the women are eighth in the national team computer rankings provided by USTFCCCA. Also ranked among the top 25 this week are Alabama (No. 4 men, No. 18 women) and UCLA (No. 18 men).
Lindon Victor will compete in three throwing events following his collegiate record in the decathlon during the Texas Relays two weeks ago. His score of 8,472 points remains the world leader for 2017.
Victor, the defending SEC and NCAA decathlon champion, is scheduled to throw the shot put, discus and javelin for the Aggies. In those three events he totaled 2,675 points during his 2016 SEC decathlon title, which was less than 75 points from the world's top score of 2,748 points by Canada's Michael Smith in 1996. In his recent collegiate record performance, Victor's tally in the three throwing events totaled 2,655 points.
NCAA Indoor 400m champion Fred Kerley is set to compete in the 200m at UCLA as well as both relays, where the Aggies rank first among collegians in the 4x400 (3:01.74) and fifth in the 4x100 (39.12).
In his lone individual event so far this outdoor season, Kerley posted a wind-aided 20.27 victory in the 200m at UTSA. A week later, during the Texas Relays, he supplied a 43.5 split as the second leg of Texas A&M's 3:01.74 victory in the 4x400 and was the opening 200m leg of a collegiate-leading 3:15.57 win in the sprint medley.
Mylik Kerley, who anchored the Aggies 4x400 to victory in claiming the 2017 NCAA Indoor team title by half a point, will contest the 400m and is joined by a pair of 400m hurdlers in teammate Robert Grant along with UCLA's Rai Benjamin. Mylik, who improved to 45.68 during the indoor season and placed third in the NCAA Indoor 400m final, has an outdoor best of 45.98 from the 2016 NCAA Championships.
Grant currently leads the Division I ranks in the 400m hurdles with a 49.40 while Benjamin is 10th among collegians with a 50.40. Grant has improved his 400m time to 46.17 this outdoor season while Benjamin clocked 46.17 on the same weekend he recorded a 50.40 in the hurdles.
Alison Ondrusek, who threw the hammer 208 feet last week to break the Texas A&M school record, will compete first for the Aggies with the women's hammer starting at 8:30 a.m. (PT). In the women's javelin a crew of four competing includes Audrey Malone, Shelby Poncik, Kristen Clark and Madalaine Stulce. They currently rank 3-7-8-11 among collegians this season.
Audie Wyatt leads the Aggie pole vault crew into UCLA after scaling a school record of 18-8 ¼ (5.70) which also broke stadium and meet records at the Sun Angel Classic last weekend that were previously held by Nick Hysong (1994) and Tim Mack (1996). Wyatt and Virginia Tech's Torben Laidig share the collegiate lead at this stage of the outdoor season.
Jazmine Fray, the indoor collegiate record holder in the 800m, will race at that distance again after opening with a 2:04.97 outdoors last weekend. Fray split 2:02.9 as the anchor leg of the sprint medley relay Texas A&M won during the Texas Relays in a meet record of 3:42.10, producing the third fastest collegiate time ever.
Will Williams, the NCAA Indoor long jump silver medalist, currently ranks third in the long jump outdoors with his season best of 26-1 ½ (7.96), a mark he registered twice during a runner-up finish at the Texas Relays.
In the women's sprints the Aggie relay squads rank third in the 4x100 (42.82) and sixth in the 4x400 (3:28.36). Danyel White and Amber Ivy will race in the 100m while White will also contest the 200m with Jaevin Reed and Brenessa Thompson. Briyahna Desrosiers leads a crew of four Texas A&M sprinters in the women's 400m.
White clocked a windy 22.55 at UTSA, which is the outdoor world leader under all conditions, and ran 11.49 in the 100m as runner-up in the Sun Angel Classic. Meanwhile, Reed posted a world junior leading time of 52.18 in the 400m as runner-up to Olympic finalist Phyllis Francis last weekend and ran a wind-legal 22.84 at UTSA, which ranks second on the 2017 world junior list.
A crew of Aggie distance runners will race at the Mt. SAC Relays on Thursday and Friday, then compete in the 1,500m at UCLA on Saturday.
On Thursday, Hannah Campbell and Ashton Hutcherson compete in the 3,000m steeplechase while Christian Farris and Austin Wells race in the men's 10,000m and Devin Norton is in the women's 10,000m. On Friday, Alex Riba and Cameron Villarreal compete in the 5,000m.
Field events begin at 8:30 a.m. (PT) while running events start at 2:15 p.m. Event scoring in the meet will follow a 10-8-6-4-2-1 format in individual events and 10-8-6-4-2 in relay events. Results will be available at finishedresults.trackscoreboard.com.
Last season the Aggies faced UCLA in a dual meet with Texas A&M sweeping team victories over the Bruins. The Aggie men won 94-51 while the women prevailed 81-64.
This year Texas A&M enters the meet with the men ranked second and the women are eighth in the national team computer rankings provided by USTFCCCA. Also ranked among the top 25 this week are Alabama (No. 4 men, No. 18 women) and UCLA (No. 18 men).
Lindon Victor will compete in three throwing events following his collegiate record in the decathlon during the Texas Relays two weeks ago. His score of 8,472 points remains the world leader for 2017.
Victor, the defending SEC and NCAA decathlon champion, is scheduled to throw the shot put, discus and javelin for the Aggies. In those three events he totaled 2,675 points during his 2016 SEC decathlon title, which was less than 75 points from the world's top score of 2,748 points by Canada's Michael Smith in 1996. In his recent collegiate record performance, Victor's tally in the three throwing events totaled 2,655 points.
NCAA Indoor 400m champion Fred Kerley is set to compete in the 200m at UCLA as well as both relays, where the Aggies rank first among collegians in the 4x400 (3:01.74) and fifth in the 4x100 (39.12).
In his lone individual event so far this outdoor season, Kerley posted a wind-aided 20.27 victory in the 200m at UTSA. A week later, during the Texas Relays, he supplied a 43.5 split as the second leg of Texas A&M's 3:01.74 victory in the 4x400 and was the opening 200m leg of a collegiate-leading 3:15.57 win in the sprint medley.
Mylik Kerley, who anchored the Aggies 4x400 to victory in claiming the 2017 NCAA Indoor team title by half a point, will contest the 400m and is joined by a pair of 400m hurdlers in teammate Robert Grant along with UCLA's Rai Benjamin. Mylik, who improved to 45.68 during the indoor season and placed third in the NCAA Indoor 400m final, has an outdoor best of 45.98 from the 2016 NCAA Championships.
Grant currently leads the Division I ranks in the 400m hurdles with a 49.40 while Benjamin is 10th among collegians with a 50.40. Grant has improved his 400m time to 46.17 this outdoor season while Benjamin clocked 46.17 on the same weekend he recorded a 50.40 in the hurdles.
Alison Ondrusek, who threw the hammer 208 feet last week to break the Texas A&M school record, will compete first for the Aggies with the women's hammer starting at 8:30 a.m. (PT). In the women's javelin a crew of four competing includes Audrey Malone, Shelby Poncik, Kristen Clark and Madalaine Stulce. They currently rank 3-7-8-11 among collegians this season.
Audie Wyatt leads the Aggie pole vault crew into UCLA after scaling a school record of 18-8 ¼ (5.70) which also broke stadium and meet records at the Sun Angel Classic last weekend that were previously held by Nick Hysong (1994) and Tim Mack (1996). Wyatt and Virginia Tech's Torben Laidig share the collegiate lead at this stage of the outdoor season.
Jazmine Fray, the indoor collegiate record holder in the 800m, will race at that distance again after opening with a 2:04.97 outdoors last weekend. Fray split 2:02.9 as the anchor leg of the sprint medley relay Texas A&M won during the Texas Relays in a meet record of 3:42.10, producing the third fastest collegiate time ever.
Will Williams, the NCAA Indoor long jump silver medalist, currently ranks third in the long jump outdoors with his season best of 26-1 ½ (7.96), a mark he registered twice during a runner-up finish at the Texas Relays.
In the women's sprints the Aggie relay squads rank third in the 4x100 (42.82) and sixth in the 4x400 (3:28.36). Danyel White and Amber Ivy will race in the 100m while White will also contest the 200m with Jaevin Reed and Brenessa Thompson. Briyahna Desrosiers leads a crew of four Texas A&M sprinters in the women's 400m.
White clocked a windy 22.55 at UTSA, which is the outdoor world leader under all conditions, and ran 11.49 in the 100m as runner-up in the Sun Angel Classic. Meanwhile, Reed posted a world junior leading time of 52.18 in the 400m as runner-up to Olympic finalist Phyllis Francis last weekend and ran a wind-legal 22.84 at UTSA, which ranks second on the 2017 world junior list.
A crew of Aggie distance runners will race at the Mt. SAC Relays on Thursday and Friday, then compete in the 1,500m at UCLA on Saturday.
On Thursday, Hannah Campbell and Ashton Hutcherson compete in the 3,000m steeplechase while Christian Farris and Austin Wells race in the men's 10,000m and Devin Norton is in the women's 10,000m. On Friday, Alex Riba and Cameron Villarreal compete in the 5,000m.
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