SAN ANTONIO, TX — After a one-week layoff, the UTSA track & field teams are back in action this Friday-Saturday, April 9-10, when they travel to College Station for the Texas A&M Team Invitational.
The Roadrunners will line up against Arkansas, Angelo State, Houston, Houston Baptist, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, Northwestern State, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Sam Houston, SMU, TCU, Texas A&M, Texas Southern, ULM, UT Arlington and UTRGV.
The two-day meet will get underway at 12:15 p.m. Friday with the first event (100 meters) in the men’s decathlon. Field events will start at 3 p.m. with the women’s pole vault and running events are slated for an 8 p.m. Friday start.
Saturday’s action is set to begin at 10 a.m. with the women’s heptathlon long jump, followed by field events starting with the women’s discus and men’s pole vault at 3 p.m. and track events beginning with the 4x100m relay at 6:30 p.m.
UTSA last competed on March 25-27 at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. Faith Roberson’s record-setting performance in the women’s 400-meter hurdles led the way, as the Wall, Texas, native clocked a time of 57.54 for third place to eclipse the school record of 58.70 set a week earlier by Alanah Yukich at the UTSA Invitational. She earned Conference USA Female Track Athlete of the Week accolades for her performance.
Ingeborg Gruenwald leaped to a runner-up mark of 6.19 meters (20-3.75) in the ‘B’ section of the women’s long jump, while Maia Campbell nearly took down the UTSA record in the shot put with a personal-best measurement of 15.37m (50-5.25), just two centimeters shy of the standard.
Meanwhile, Bashiru Abdullahi raced to first place in the Invitational section of the 110m hurdles with a 13.84 clocking and Andrew Pirog raced to a third-place time of 53.13 in the 400m hurdles to highlight action for the men two weeks ago in Austin.
