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OKLAHOMA STATE TRACK AND FIELD Media Relations Contact: Austin Chappell | [email protected] | Cell: 214-674-6762 | Office: 405-744-3654 Media Relations Contact: Sean Maguire | [email protected] | Cell: 405-401-7907 | Office: 405-744-6963 okstate.com | @OSUAthletics | @Run4Okstate | #okstate 2014-15 INDOOR TRACK & FIELD SCHEDULE THIS WEEK Date Event Location 12/13 K-State Winter Invitational Manhattan, Kan. 1/16-1/17 Holiday Inn Invitational Lincoln, Neb. K-STATE WINTER 1/23-1/24 DeLoss Dodds Invitational Manhattan, Kan. 1/30-1/31 Arkansas Invitational Fayetteville, Ark. INVITATIONAL 2/6-2/7 New Mexico Classic Albuquerque, N.M. 11 a.m. CT | Dec. 13, 2014 | Manhattan, Kan. Sevigne Husker Invite Lincoln, Neb. 2/13-2/14 Don Kirby Elite Albuquerque, N.M. Husky Classic Seattle, Wash. Iowa State Invitational Ames, Iowa THE BASICS LAST TIME OUT Tyson Invitational Fayetteville, Ark. The Oklahoma State men's and women's track and 2014 NCAA INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS 2/20 Alex Wilson Invitational South Bend, Ind. field squads travel to Manhattan, Kan., Saturday to Oklahoma State's Kirubel Erassa finished second 2/20-2/21 KSU Invitational Manhattan, Kan. compete at the K-State Winter Invitational in Ahearn in the men's 3,000 meters, and Cowgirls Savannah Field House. Camacho and Kaela Edwards took second and third 2/27-2/28 Big 12 Indoor Championships Ames, Iowa in the women's 800 meters at the NCAA Indoor Track 3/12-3/13 NCAA Indoor Championships Fayetteville, Ark. FOLLOW THE MEET & Field Championships, in Albuquerque, N.M., on Fans can view results following the conclusion of Saturday. PROBABLE ENTRIES - MEN the race on okstate.com, or by following @run4okstate The men finished sixth in the team standings, with on Twitter. 20 points, which is OSU's second-highest team finish Waylan Anderson - Fr. Sharod Selph - Jr. in school history, behind a second-place finish in 1965. Arlando Brewer-Johnson - Fr. Bradon Singleton - Fr. MEET FORMAT/SCHEDULE It's the fourth indoor top-10 finish for the Cowboys, Tyler Jackson - Fr. Richard Smith - Jr. In the men's portion of Saturday's meet, Oklahoma and second in a row. OSU scored 20 points in 2013 as Cody Kenny - Sr. John Teeters - So. State and Kansas State will compete in a Division I well, finishing eighth. Justin McBride - Fr. Cole Verble - Fr. Dual. The Cowgirls will compete in a scored meet with The women finished 15th in the team standings, Kansas State and Nebraska-Omaha. Each meet will with 14 points. It's the second-best women's team begin with field events at 11 a.m., followed by track finish in school history, as well, behind a 13th-place PROBABLE ENTRIES - WOMEN events at 2 p.m. finish in 1989. This is the first time in school history the OSU men and women each earned top-15 team Jasmine Adams - So. Katherine Lee - So. A LOOK BACK Keely Brown - So. Ricki Lee Scheef - Fr. finishes at the NCAA Indoor Championships. 2013 K-STATE WINTER INVITATIONAL Triana Browne-Hearrell - Jr. Leah Milteer - Fr. Erassa (8:13.08), in a race he did not originally Jennifer Celis - Fr. Lindy Pasley - Fr. The Oklahoma State track and field program qualify for and entered due to a late scratch, jumped Danielle Coleman - Fr. Brittney Reid - Jr. opened its 2013-14 indoor season on Saturday, Dec. out to the lead for the first half of the 3,000 meters. Cydney Crook - So. Sarah Robinson - Fr. 15, as the Cowboys and Cowgirls competed at the With three laps to go, Erassa fell to fifth, but fought Stephanie Ferrante - Fr. Viktoriia Sadokhina - So. Kansas State Winter Invitational. back. With a big kick going into the final lap, Erassa Summor Fields - Fr. Clara Telford - Sr. The men's squad picked up three first-place was able to separate himself from the chase pack and finishes on the day, including Tyler Payton's 1:13.65 claim second place. THE FIELD finish in the 600-yard run, Luis Martinez's 4:20.47 in This is the second-straight year Erassa has been a School Rank (n/a)* Squads Competing the mile and Charles Mathenge's 8:42.53 in the 3,000 First Team All-American in the indoor 3,000 meters. He Oklahoma State Men's and Women's meters. The Cowboys finished the mile 1-2-3, with took third place in the 2013 meet. Kansas State Men's and Women's Alexander Johannson (4:20.76) and Brigham Hedges Camacho (2:05.53) and Edwards (2:05.72) became Emporia State Men's and Women's (4:21.79) following Martinez. the first OSU women to be First Team All-Americans Fort Hays State Men's and Women's Oklahoma State also finished as a group in the in the same event at the same NCAA Indoor Nebraska-Omaha Men's and Women's men's 3,000 meters, with Noah Gade finishing second Championships since 1997. They crossed the finish at 8:43.65 and Tommy Casey at fourth in 8:51.02. The line together, in the same fashion as they did when * - The USTFCCCA will begin its 2014-15 ranking cycle by releas- OSU men finished the day with eight top-five finished they finished 1-2 at the Razorback Invite, which is ing preseason polls on Jan. 6, 2015. as Ryan Finnie placed fourth in the triple jump with a where they earned their NCAA-qualifying times. mark of 13.56 meters. The Oklahoma State women's squad had 10 top- MEN'S SEASON PREVIEW five finishes, highlighted by Brittney Reid's fourth-place The 2014 track and field season saw Oklahoma 7.91 in the 60-meter dash, a time that ranks sixth on State record one of its best seasons in school OSU's all-time best list. Reid also reach a personal- history, as the Pokes collected their first indoor team best in the long jump as she leapt 5.37 meters for conference title, a sixth-place performance at indoor a sixth-place finish. Jordan Highsmith finished two nationals and a 13th-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor places better in that event with a 5.50-meter mark. Championships. Jasmine Adams' 8.11 time in the 60 meters was a OSU’s stacked returning group begins with senior new personal best and enough for eighth place, while Nick Miller, a Carlisle, U.K., native who concluded the Kristina Fischer's 3:07.82 was a personal-best for her 2014 season by becoming a five-time All-American in the 1,000 meters. A pair of Cowgirls came away with and Big 12 Champion. The Cowboy thrower recorded first-place finishes, including Savannah Camacho in the 1,000 meters at 2:54.77 and Emily Helms in the his second-consecutive conference titles in the indoor mile at 5:17.49. weight throw and outdoor hammer throw before taking OKSTATE.COM | @OSUATHLETICS | @RUN4OKSTATE | #OKSTATE OKSTATE.COM | @OSUATHLETICS | @RUN4OKSTATE | #OKSTATE MEET NOTES/TEAM INFORMATION second in both events at the NCAA Championships, finishing just short of the top mark at OKLAHOMA STATE each meet. He added even more impressive lines to his resume this summer by winning 2014 NCAA IN 2013-14 the senior hammer title at the British Championships and taking silver in the Common- Indoor Team wealth Games. Results MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY Kirubel Erassa returns as the leader of the Cowboys’ distance attack, along with Shane Moskowitz and Chad Noelle - a trio from last season’s All-American indoor Men • Third place at NCAA Championships distance medley relay squad. Erassa matched Miller’s second-place finish at the NCAA (Fifth-straight Top 3 finish) Indoor Championships, completing the 3,000 meters in 8:13.08. 1. Oregon 2. Arkansas • Big 12 Champions (Sixth-Straight) Oklahoma State also brings back plenty of talent on the sprints side, anchored by 3. Florida • USTFCCCA Men’s All-Academic Team breakout star Tyreek Hill. The speedster opened his collegiate career by topping the 200 meters at the Big 12 Championships, where he also set the school record in the 60 meter 4. Florida State • NCAA Midwest Regional Champions 5. Arizona • Cowboy Jamboree Champions dash. After helping the Cowboys to a conference championship, Hill took fifth at NCAAs with a 200 time of 20.57, breaking the school record by nearly a full second. 6. Oklahoma State • Hurricane Festival Champions 6. Alabama Fellow sprinter John Teeters combines with Hill to give Oklahoma State a top-tier • Dave Smith - USTFCCCA Midwest Region Coach of 8. UTEP speed duo. Newcomers Tyler Jackson, Brandon Singleton, Arlando Brewer-Johnson and the Year JUCO All-American transfer Sharod Selph add to the mix, giving the Cowboys one of its 8. LSU • Dave Smith - Big 12 Coach of the Year most talented sprint squads in school history. 8. Texas A&M • Tom Farrell and Shadrack Kipchirchir - All-Americans Conall Kirk, a middle distance standout from Holywood, Northern Ireland, teams up 11. Wisconsin with incoming cross country standouts Vegard Oelstad, Cerake Geberkidane and Chan- 12. Mississippi State dler Austin to give Oklahoma State a deep distance crew. Kirk begins his OSU career 12. Stanford after an outstanding performance in junior European competition. 14. Pittsburgh MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD 14. Cornell • Big 12 Indoor Champions The highlights extended off the track as well, as OSU coach Dave Smith landed mul- tiple first-time track accolades. He won Big 12 Indoor Coach of theYear and USTFCCA 16. Akron • Kirubel Erassa named USTFCCCA Midwest Region 17. USC Midwest Region Coach of the Year for the first time in his coaching career.