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In the foyer outside the Texas Tech track and field coaches' offices in the Sports Performance Center, the walls are lined with trophies from Big 12 and NCAA championship meets. They might soon need to reconfigure the shelf space.
Texas Tech swept the men's and women's titles at the Big 12 outdoor championships that concluded Saturday, May 17, in Lawrence, Kansas, a follow-up to the Red Raiders' sweep during the indoor championships this year in Lubbock.
The team title was the 11th for the Tech men, the sixth outdoor. They've won the past three indoor crowns. The two this year are the first for the Tech women, who had long been competitive without winning the team trophy.
"It's probably one of the highlights of our whole coaching career here, to win four in one year," Tech coach Wes Kittley said. "It's so hard to do to win one. To be able to do it with the men and the women together, what a special year for our women, because they really got over the hump after getting close for so many years."
Over three days at Rock Chalk Park, the Tech women got individual titles from Shelby Frank in the hammer throw and the discus, from Temitope Adeshina in the high jump and from Victoria Gorlova in the triple jump. The men got wins from Ernest Cheriuyot in the 10,000 meters, B.J. Jennings in the high jump, DeSean Boyce in the 400 and the 400-meter relay team of Aidan McDuffie, Jonathan Crawford, Antoine Andrews and Kimarlie Stewart.
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The Tech women finished with 127 points, followed by Brigham Young with 112 1/2, TCU with 86 and Baylor with 84 1/2. The Tech men totaled 136 points, BYU 100 2/3, Houston 96 and Kansas 75.
A two-hour weather delay ensued with only three events left as a storm moved through the area. The meet resumed just after 10 p.m. Both Tech teams having clinched before the last event, neither ran the 1,600-meter relay.
The Tech women scored 89 of their 127 points in field events. Frank threw the hammer a meet record 230 feet, 10 inches on the first day and threw the discus a personal record 203-10 on the last day.
The Red Raiders piled up even more points in the high jump and the triple jump. Adeshina broke the meet record in the high jump, clearing 6-5 1/2, leading a 1-3-4-7 finish with teammates Claire Lowrey (5-11 1/2), Evelyn Lavielle (5-10) and Alexis Ivy (5-10). Adeshina, a sophomore who competed in last year's Paris Olympics, has swept the Big 12 indoor and outdoor titles each of her first two years.
The Red Raiders went 1-2-3-7 in the triple jump. Gorlova, who won five Atlantic Coast Conference titles with Virginia Tech, got her first with Texas Tech with a mark of 44-9 3/4. Tamiah Washington, the triple-jump champion at the Big 12 indoor, was second at 44-8 3/4, and Busola Akinduro was third at 44-7. Gorlova's and Akinduro's marks were personal records, and Washington's was an outdoor personal best.
"Dominated the women's triple jump. Dominated the women's high jump. Dominated the discus," Kittley said. "Those were big, big point getters. We knew that was our strength."
The Tech men scored in 17 of the 20 events they entered. They got second-place points from Sean Gribble in the pole vault (18-1), Oskar Edlund in the 400-meter hurdles (49.00) and Cheriuyot in the 5,000 meters (personal-record 13:27.89). Third-place finishers included Konner Wood in the hammer (personal-record 217-9), Oscar Rodriguez in the discus (190-10), Stewart in the 100 meters (10.17) and Crawford in the 200 meters (20.61).
Tech women taking second were Destiny Smith in the 100-meter hurdles (13.09) and Fanny Arendt in the 800 meters (2:00.91). Zoe Burleson got third in the discus (193-2), and Mekenze Kelley ran third in the 400 meters (52.15).
The Red Raiders pulled off the twin titles even with compromised lineups. Sprinter/hurdler Malachi Snow, co-high point scorer at the Big 12 indoor, didn't compete in the outdoor while dealing with a hamstring injury. Andrews, a two-time first-team all-American and four-time Big 12 runner-up, injured a hamstring in the 110-hurdles final and didn't finish.
Naomi Krebs, the indoor 60-meter hurdles winner, qualified for the final in the 100 hurdles, but was scratched after she strained a leg muscle leading off the sprint relay. And the Tech women already were without top sprinters Alyssa Colbert and Brianna Howard, out for the season with injuries.
"We knew we had to lean heavily on our field events," Kittley said, "because we lost so much of our running (personnel). ... That's what I was so proud of. We were shorthanded at times and then it didn't matter. The next event, our kids just dominated an event and got us right back going."
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech track and field teams sweep Big 12 outdoor championships
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Texas Tech swept the men's and women's titles at the Big 12 outdoor championships that concluded Saturday, May 17, in Lawrence, Kansas, a follow-up to the Red Raiders' sweep during the indoor championships this year in Lubbock.
The team title was the 11th for the Tech men, the sixth outdoor. They've won the past three indoor crowns. The two this year are the first for the Tech women, who had long been competitive without winning the team trophy.
"It's probably one of the highlights of our whole coaching career here, to win four in one year," Tech coach Wes Kittley said. "It's so hard to do to win one. To be able to do it with the men and the women together, what a special year for our women, because they really got over the hump after getting close for so many years."
Over three days at Rock Chalk Park, the Tech women got individual titles from Shelby Frank in the hammer throw and the discus, from Temitope Adeshina in the high jump and from Victoria Gorlova in the triple jump. The men got wins from Ernest Cheriuyot in the 10,000 meters, B.J. Jennings in the high jump, DeSean Boyce in the 400 and the 400-meter relay team of Aidan McDuffie, Jonathan Crawford, Antoine Andrews and Kimarlie Stewart.
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The Tech women finished with 127 points, followed by Brigham Young with 112 1/2, TCU with 86 and Baylor with 84 1/2. The Tech men totaled 136 points, BYU 100 2/3, Houston 96 and Kansas 75.
A two-hour weather delay ensued with only three events left as a storm moved through the area. The meet resumed just after 10 p.m. Both Tech teams having clinched before the last event, neither ran the 1,600-meter relay.
The Tech women scored 89 of their 127 points in field events. Frank threw the hammer a meet record 230 feet, 10 inches on the first day and threw the discus a personal record 203-10 on the last day.
The Red Raiders piled up even more points in the high jump and the triple jump. Adeshina broke the meet record in the high jump, clearing 6-5 1/2, leading a 1-3-4-7 finish with teammates Claire Lowrey (5-11 1/2), Evelyn Lavielle (5-10) and Alexis Ivy (5-10). Adeshina, a sophomore who competed in last year's Paris Olympics, has swept the Big 12 indoor and outdoor titles each of her first two years.
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The Red Raiders went 1-2-3-7 in the triple jump. Gorlova, who won five Atlantic Coast Conference titles with Virginia Tech, got her first with Texas Tech with a mark of 44-9 3/4. Tamiah Washington, the triple-jump champion at the Big 12 indoor, was second at 44-8 3/4, and Busola Akinduro was third at 44-7. Gorlova's and Akinduro's marks were personal records, and Washington's was an outdoor personal best.
"Dominated the women's triple jump. Dominated the women's high jump. Dominated the discus," Kittley said. "Those were big, big point getters. We knew that was our strength."
The Tech men scored in 17 of the 20 events they entered. They got second-place points from Sean Gribble in the pole vault (18-1), Oskar Edlund in the 400-meter hurdles (49.00) and Cheriuyot in the 5,000 meters (personal-record 13:27.89). Third-place finishers included Konner Wood in the hammer (personal-record 217-9), Oscar Rodriguez in the discus (190-10), Stewart in the 100 meters (10.17) and Crawford in the 200 meters (20.61).
Tech women taking second were Destiny Smith in the 100-meter hurdles (13.09) and Fanny Arendt in the 800 meters (2:00.91). Zoe Burleson got third in the discus (193-2), and Mekenze Kelley ran third in the 400 meters (52.15).
The Red Raiders pulled off the twin titles even with compromised lineups. Sprinter/hurdler Malachi Snow, co-high point scorer at the Big 12 indoor, didn't compete in the outdoor while dealing with a hamstring injury. Andrews, a two-time first-team all-American and four-time Big 12 runner-up, injured a hamstring in the 110-hurdles final and didn't finish.
Naomi Krebs, the indoor 60-meter hurdles winner, qualified for the final in the 100 hurdles, but was scratched after she strained a leg muscle leading off the sprint relay. And the Tech women already were without top sprinters Alyssa Colbert and Brianna Howard, out for the season with injuries.
"We knew we had to lean heavily on our field events," Kittley said, "because we lost so much of our running (personnel). ... That's what I was so proud of. We were shorthanded at times and then it didn't matter. The next event, our kids just dominated an event and got us right back going."
This article originally appeared on Lubbock Avalanche-Journal: Texas Tech track and field teams sweep Big 12 outdoor championships
Continue reading...
