UNIVERSITY OF OREGON ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS 2016 OREGON TRACK & FIELD Oregon Twilight Hayward Field May 6, 2016 This Week: In the final week before the championship portion of the 2016 schedule, 2016 OUTDOOR SCHEDULE Oregon track and field will host the Oregon Twilight, Friday, welcoming back a March 18-19 Willie Williams Classic number of notable alums to take on current Ducks and professionals alike. The meet March 19 Lewis & Clark Spring Break Open is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. with the men’s discus while competition on the April 1-2 Stanford Invitational track will start at 2:30 p.m. April 9 Pepsi Team Invitational April 14-16 Oregon Relays Up I-5, the group of Oregon decathletes will kick off the Pac-12 Championships with the Multi-Events Championships in Seattle, Saturday-Sunday. Mt. SAC Relays April 28-30 The 122nd Penn Relays Coverage: The Oregon Twilight will be broadcast live on the Pac-12 Network from April 29-30 OSU High Performance Meet 6-7 p.m. while the preceding portion of the meet will be streamed at www.goducks. May 1 Payton Jordan Invitational com/live. Live results will also be available. May 6 Oregon Twilight May 7-8 Pac-12 Multis Championships Senior Night: Oregon track and field will honor 21 seniors on Friday night in front of May 14-15 Pac-12 Championships the west grandstands at 5:40 p.m. The group of 11 women and 10 men have earned May 26-28 NCAA West Preliminary Round 31 All-America honors during their time as Ducks. The group will leave with five Pac- 12 Championships on both the men’s and women’s side as well as a total of 10 NCAA June 8-11 NCAA Outdoor Championships team championships. July 1-10 U.S. Olympic Trials Promotions: Fans who participated in last week’s Eugene Marathon/Half Marathon can purchase tickets for $5, using the promo code “Marathon” when buying tickets OREGON ENTRIES at goducks.com. Men Women Kids 12-and-under will receive free admission with an adult ticket purchase. 100 Kirk Merritt 200 Ashante Horsley Christian Sourapas Khadejah Jackson Tatum Taylor 800 Emma Abrahamson Events to Watch: 200 Cameron Stone Women’s 1,500: 400 Jack Galpin Skylar Evans 800 Grant Grosvenor Ashley Maton The event nearly has too many former Oregon standouts to count, all starting with Brett Willyard Kelly O’Neill Jordan Hasay, one of the most decorated female athletes in Oregon history. Hasay 1,500 Chris Brewer 1,500 Emma Abrahamson has moved on from the Ducks to the professional ranks and finished 12th at the Matthew Maton Frida Berge Matthew Melancon Alli Cash 2013 World Championships in the 10,000 meters. Her former training partner Alexi Brett Wilyard Brianna Nerud Pappas, who recently acquired Greek citizenship, is also in this race. Nicole Blood, a 3,000 Bryan Fernandez 100H Khadejah Jackson Matthew Melancon 4-time Pac-10 Champion and 8-time All-American for Oregon, is in a resurgence of Steeple Jackson Darland Long Jump Madelayne Varela her career. High school senior Katie Rainsberger has signed with the Ducks and is a Shot Put Itohan Aikhionbare Kyle Levermore part of one of the most competitive senior class of 1,500 meter runners ever. Chris Mulverhill Brittany Mann 110H Blake Kemp Discus Itohan Aikhionbare 400H Schuller Rettig Hammer Brittany Mann Men’s 400: Steeple Jackson Darland Madeline Middlebrooks One of the premier races in the day simply because of the headlining name, Olympic Chris Mulverhill Javelin Liz Brenner Gold Medalist Ashton Eaton. Eaton started the drive to the World Championship 4x100 Annie Whitfield High Jump Alec Fellows at the Oregon Twilight last year in a very close 400 meter contest and used that Blake Kemp Bradley Laubacher experience in Beijing, as his 45.00 400 meter decathlon world best at the end of the Ben Milligan first day is what sparked his magical run to beat his world record last summer. He Pole Vault Matt Hidalgo will face former Oregon star Mike Berry. Berry, a two-time Pac-12 400 Champion and Cole Walsh Long Jump Alec Fellows 2014 NCAA runner-up. Blake Kemp Triple Jump Chance Whitehurst Shot Put T.J. Brassil Drake Brennan Austin White Discus Drake Brennan Cullen Prena Hammer Cullen Prena Greg Skipper Javelin Jackson Van Vuren Women’s 100: University Quick Facts Oregon’s first 100 meter All-American, Mandy White finished second in the Twilight 100 last year to current Duck Alisha Rowlee. She is joined in this field by another former President: Michael Schill Oregon Duck and trailblazer Phyllis Francis, a multiple-time national champion for the Athletic Director: Rob Mullens Ducks at 400 meters. The 400 meter indoor American Record holder will race the 100 for Faculty Representative: Tim Gleeson Facility: Hayward Field (10,500), founded 1919 the first time in her competitive career. Ashton Purvis, half-sister of yet another former Conference: Pacific-12 (www.pac-12.org) Duck Amber Purvis, a graduate of Texas A&M and two-time NCAA Champion on the 4x100 Enrollment: 24,500 meter relay for the Aggies, looks to challenge the alumnae. Location: Eugene, Oregon Mascot: Ducks Women’s 100 Hurdles: Colors: Yellow and Green The event features three star athletes who have all broken 13 seconds in this event. (Pantone 567, Pantone 107) Angela Whyte, Canada’s best-ever hurdler and 2012 Olympian, joins one of Canada’s best Duck Ticket Office: (541) 346-4461 hopes for Olympic Gold – another Oregon legend – Brianne Theisen-Eaton, who won the 1-800-WEB-FOOT World Indoor Championship in the Pentathlon in March. Nia Ali, an NCAA Champion while Athletic Dept. Phone: (541) 346-4481 at USC, and two-time World Indoor Champion at 60 meter hurdles is the favorite in this Athletic Dept. Phone (TTY): (541) 346-5418 Athletic Communications Contact: Casey Johnon field, one of the best of the meet. SID E-mail: [email protected] Media Services Phone: (541) 346-5488 Men’s 110 Hurdles: Media Services FAX: (541) 346-5449 An NCAA runner-up for Oregon last year, Johnathan Cabral enters this field with the Press Box Phone: (541) 346-4497 or 346-4496 second-fastest time in the world this season after winning the Mt. SAC Relays three weeks Web Site: www.goducks.com ago. Cabral qualified for the World Championships last season, where he advanced to the Indoor A-A Performances Returning/Lost: semifinals representing Canada. He will be joined by 2013 World Championship Silver Men: 8/11 Medalist Ryan Wilson, a former USC NCAA and Pac-10 Champion, who has a personal best Women: 6/6 of 13.02 in this event from 2007. Outdoor All-Americans Returning/Lost: Men: 4/8 Women: 9/7 Women’s Shot Put: NCAA Championships: 28 The best two shot put throwers in Oregon history, Brittany Mann and Itohan Aikhionbare, Men’s Outdoor Track: 1961, 1964, 1965, compete head-to-head against former NAIA National Champion for Concordia McKenzie 1970, 1984, 2014, 2015 Warren. Men’s Indoor Track: 2009, 2014, 2015, 2016 Women’s Outdoor Track: 1985, 2015 Pac-12 Combined Events Championships: The Ducks will have two decathletes at the Women’s Indoor Track: 2010, 2011, 2012, Pac-12 Championships this weekend in Joe Delgado and Mitch Modin. Modin finished 2013, 2014, 2016 fourth at the conference meet last year as a sophomore while Delgado took sixth. Men’s Cross Country: 1971, 1973, 1974, 1977, 2007, 2008 Competition will begin Saturday at noon and 11:30 a.m. on Sunday. Highlights from the Women’s Cross Country: 1983, 1987, 2012 weekend, as well as the main portion of the Championship meet, will air as part of a three Conference Championships: 66 hour show on Sunday, May 22 on the Pac-12 Networks. Men’s Track & Field: 1924, 1934, 1965, 1967, 1978, 1979, Pac-12 Championships History: The Oregon men’s team has now won the last nine Pac- 1986, 1990, 2003, 12 Championship team titles while the women have won seven in-a-row. 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, The men’s streak is the longest in Pac-12 history, topping the eight-year streak by USC 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 from 1948-1955 as part of the Pacific Coast Conference and again in 1957-1963 during the Women’s Track & Field: 1983, 1984, 1985, transition from the PCC to the Pac-8. The streak of seven years for the Women of Oregon is 1986, 1991, 1992, the second longest in conference history behind UCLA from 1997-2004. 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 Men’s Cross Country: 1969, 1970, 1973, Rankings: Both the men’s and women’s teams held steady in the latest USTFCCCA 1976, 1977, 1978, Rankings this week. The women are No. 3 while the men come in at No. 7. 1979, 1982, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1992, Pac-12 Athlete of the Week: (4/19) Devon Allen and Hannah Cunliffe were named Pac-12 1995, 2006, 2007, 2008 Track Athletes of the Week on April 19. Allen won four events at the Oregon Relays while Women’s Cross Country: 1976, 1977, 1978, running the fifth-fastest time in Oregon history in the 200 (20.68). Cunliffe was a member 1979, 1980, 1982, of the winning 4x100 team, won the 100 and finished second in the 200 at the Mt. SAC 1983, 1984, 1985, Relays. Cunliffe ran 10.99 in the 100 and 22.71 in the 200, both of which put her among 1986, 1987, 1988, the top four in Oregon history.