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University of Georgia 2021 INdoor Track & Field georgiadogs.com // : @UGATrack 2021 Indoor Schedule Where To Catch The 2021 NCAA Championships Date Event (Location) Results The NCAA Indoor Championships will air LIVE on Jan. 15-16 Clemson Invitational (Clemson, SC) NTS ESPN3 all three days. There will also be an ESPNU tape Jan. 23 Carolina Challenge (Columbia, SC) NTS delay special of the meet on Tuesday. ESPN3 LIVE: Jan. 29-30 Razorback Invitational (Fayetteville, ARK) NTS Thursday, March 11 (12pmET) - gado.gs/6hb Feb. 5-6 South Carolina Invitational (Columbia) NTS Friday, March 12 (2:45pm) - gado.gs/6hd; Feb. 12-13 Tiger Paw Invitational (Clemson) NTS (7:15pm) - gado.gs/6hf Feb. 12-13 Music City Challenge (Nashville, TN) NTS Saturday, March 13 (1:30pm) - gado.gs/6hh; Feb. 13 USC Indoor Open (Columbia) NTS (6pm) - gado.gs/6hj Feb. 25-27 SEC Championships (Fayetteville) W-3 (69), M-10 (31) TROPHY CEREMONY (9pm): gado.gs/6hl March 11-13 NCAA Championships (Fayetteville) ESPN Tape Delay Special: Sunday, March 14 (9 p.m.) Georgia Returns To Fayetteville Eyeing NCAA Hardware in both the shot put (67-6.25) and weight throw (76-6.25) as The fourth-ranked Georgia women and the sixth-ranked Bulldog men made he wrapped up his UGA indoor time. Keenon Laine completed the trip to Fayetteville, Ark., on Wednesday before the NCAA Indoor Track & Field his indoor career with a 7-3.75 clearance in the high jump and Championships begin on Thursday and continue through Saturday. Johannes Erm scored 5,817 in the heptathlon as both scored When Do The Dogs Start On Day One?: Sophomore Karel Tilga and fifth Erm( qualified for the 2021 meet but was a medical scratch redshirt sophomore Kyle Garland will start the meet in the heptathlon on Thursday at after injuring himself during this year’s heptathlon at the SEC 12 p.m. ET and will complete four of seven events (60-meter dash, long jump, shot put, Championships). high jump) on the meet’s first day. Georgia Has 14 Individuals Advance To NCAAs Sophomore Anna Hall will begin the first event of the pentathlon minutes Georgia has 14 student-athletes who are seeded in after the heptathlon starts at 12:30 p.m. and will wrap up her five events (60m hurdles, the top 16 in 12 different events, including the country’s top- high jump, shot put, long jump, 800m) on Thursday. The Championships’ open events ranked heptathlete in Kyle Garland. begin on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. with the women’s weight throw. The first Bulldog in an For the Lady Bulldogs, seniors Jessica Drop open event is sophomore Matthew Boling in the long jump at 3 p.m. on Friday. (3000m), Kayla Smith (pole vault), juniors Titiana Marsh Consistency Continues: The Lady Bulldogs have finished in the top 10 at (triple/long jumps), Imani Carothers (60m hurdles) and soph- the NCAA Indoor Championships for six out of the last seven meets, including their omores Shelby Tyler (high jump), Anna Hall (pentathlon/high run to a national championship in 2018. The Georgia men have been in the top 10 for jump), Julia Fixsen (pole vault) and Jasmine Moore (triple/ three straight seasons and have had their top finish (third in 2018) and scored their long jump) have advanced to the final indoor meet. most points in meet history (35.5 in 2017) over the last four completed seasons. On the men’s side, senior Delano Dunkley (4x400m A Glimpse At The 2019 NCAA Indoor Championships: Last year’s Na- relay), junior Elija Godwin (400m/4x400m relay) and sopho- tionals in Albuquerque were canceled a day before they were supposed to start be- mores Karel Tilga, Kyle Garland (heptathlon), Caleb Cava- cause of the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, the Lady Bulldogs were 20th (11 points) at naugh (4x400m relay), Matthew Boling (200m/4x400m relay/ the NCAA Indoor Championships while the Bulldog men tied for ninth with 20 points. long jump) will complete their indoor season at Nationals. Lynna Irby sped to a fifth-place finish in the 400m (52.38) and was the anchor on the Results and recaps from the NCAA Indoor Champion- fourth-place 4x400m relay team that set a school record and took fourth (3:31.09). ships will be found at georgiadogs.com. News and updates Aliyah Whisby also scored two points in the pentathlon (4,237). from Georgia’s track and field and cross country teams are al- For the men, the Bulldogs benefited from Denzel Comenentia taking third ways located on Twitter/Instagram at @UGATrack. Quick Facts Assist. Coaches..............Assoc. Head Coach Don Babbitt (Throws) School..................................................University of Georgia .......Assoc. HC/Recruiting Coord. Althea Thomas (Sprints/Hurdles/Relays) Location...............................................................Athens, Ga. ......................................................Patrick Cunniff (Distance) Founded .........................................................................1785 .....................................................Russ Johnson (Pole Vault) President.....................Jere W. Morehead (Georgia JD, ‘80) ...................................Ryan Grinnell (Jumps/Multis Assist.) Director of Operations................................Melissa Beasley Enrollment ..................................................................38,920 Athletic Trainers..........................Caroline Miles, CJ Walker Nickname ................................................................Bulldogs ...............................................................Alex Burdon (Intern) Colors .............................................................Red and Black UGA SID .......................Leland Barrow - Cell-678-378-3085 Conference ......................................................Southeastern 2021 W. SEC Ind. / *‘19 NCAA Ind..........3rd (69) / 20th (11) J. Reid Parker Dir. of Athletics ... Josh Brooks (LSU ‘02; Masters - UGA ‘14) 2021 M. SEC Ind. / *‘19 NCAA Ind.......10th (31) / T-9th (20) Head Coach.......................Petros Kyprianou (Jumps, Multis) *the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships were canceled University of Georgia 2021 INdoor Track & Field Schedule 8:15 pm Women’s 60mH (Carothers) THURSDAY, MARCH 11 8:25 pm Women’s 400m HEPTATHLON - DAY ONE 8:45 pm Women’s 60m 12:00 pm ET 60-meter dash (Tilga, Garland) 8:55 pm Women’s 800m 12:40 pm Long Jump (Tilga, Garland) 9:05 pm Women’s 5000m (FINAL) 2:10 pm Shot Put (Tilga, Garland) 9:25 pm Women’s 200m 3:40 pm High Jump (Tilga, Garland) 9:45 pm Women’s Distance Medley Relay (FINAL) PENTATHLON 12:30 pm 60m Hurdles (Hall) SATURDAY, MARCH 13 1:30 pm High Jump (Hall) FIELD EVENTS 3:30 pm Shot Put (Hall) 1:30 pm Men’s Pole Vault 4:45 pm Long Jump (Hall) 2:00 pm Men’s Triple Jump 6:15 pm 800m (Hall) 6:00 pm Women’s Triple Jump (Moore, Marsh) RUNNING EVENTS (Finals) FRIDAY, MARCH 12 3:00 pm Men’s Mile HEPTATHLON - DAY TWO 3:10 pm Men’s 60m 11:00 am 60m Hurdles (Tilga, Garland) 3:20 pm Men’s 400m (Godwin) 12:00 pm Pole Vault (Tilga, Garland) 3:30 pm Men’s 60mH 2:45 pm 1000m (Tilga, Garland) 3:40 pm Men’s 800m FIELD EVENTS 3:50 pm Men’s 200m (Boling) 12:00 pm Men’s Shot Put 4:00 pm Men’s 3000m 12:00 pm Women’s Shot Put 4:20 pm Men’s 4x400m Relay 12:30 pm Men’s High Jump (Boling, Cavanaugh, Dunkley, Godwin) 3:00 pm Men’s Long Jump (Boling) 7:00 pm Women’s Mile 5:30 pm Women’s High Jump (Hall, Tyler) 7:10 pm Women’s 60m 7:15 pm Women’s Pole Vault (Smith, Fixsen) 7:20 pm Women’s 400m 7:30 pm Women’s Long Jump (Moore, Marsh) 7:30 pm Women’s 60mH (Carothers) RUNNING EVENTS (Semifinals) 7:40 pm Women’s 800m 3:00 pm Men’s Mile 7:50 pm Women’s 200m 3:15 pm Men’s 60m Hurdles 8:00 pm Women’s 3000m (Drop) 3:25 pm Men’s 400m (Godwin) 8:20 pm Women’s 4x400m Relay 3:45 pm Men’s 60-Meter Dash 3:55 pm Men’s 800m 4:05 pm Men’s 5000m (FINAL) 4:25 pm Men’s 200m (Boling) 4:45 pm Men’s Distance Medley Relay (FINAL) 8:00 pm Women’s Mile University of Georgia 2021 INdoor Track & Field Petros Kyprianou Leading Dogs For Sixth Year ally (5,727) this season, he injured his foot in the second Petros Kyprianou was hired away from Boise State, landed in Athens as an assistant in 2008 and event (long jump) of the SEC heptathlon and was medically after being named UGA Associate Head Coach in 2014, the Cyprus native took the reins as the UGA pro- scratched from this meet. Tilga competed in the open long gram’s 10th head coach in history in June 2015. During his time at Georgia, Kyprianou has helped trans- jump at SECs and was 16th (23 feet, 5 1/2 inches). The form the Bulldogs, specifically its combined events and jumps, into a national power year in and year out. duo will enter the NCAA Championships ranked No. 1 and The Bulldogs have combined for 23 top-20 team finishes at the NCAA Championships and 10 top-10 8 (Garland-6,012 pts., Tilga-5,713) in the hep. finishes since the 2009 season, which was Kyprianou’s first season in red and black. During that span, the On the women’s side, sophomore Anna Hall became student-athletes he coaches have captured 27 NCAA individual titles and 44 SEC individual crowns. In the fourth all-time collegiate performer in the pentathlon addition, Kyprianou led his teams to No. 4/No. 5 national rankings and 16 All-America certificates to end with the ninth-best all-time performance (4,590 points) the 2020 indoor season shortened by the pandemic. when she set a meet record in the pent to win the 2021 Ra- zorback Invite earlier this year. Hall was the 2021 USTFC- Here is a look at the national finishes for Georgia since Kyprianou became head coach in 2016: CCA South Region Women’s Field Athlete of the Year NCAA INDOORS and is on this season’s Bowerman Watch List.