Mississippi State 2018 Track & Field Notes
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MISSISSIPPI STATE 2018 TRACK & FIELD NOTES 21 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS | 131 SEC CHAMPIONS | 229 ALL-AMERICANS | 17 OLYMPIANS Music City Challenge | Vanderbilt University | Nashville, Tenn. | Feb. 9-10, 2018 Tiger Paw Invitational | Clemson University | Clemson, S.C. | Feb. 9-10, 2018 INDOOR SCHEDULE THIS WEEK JANUARY Bulldog Track and Field Splits for Meets in Nashville, Clemson 12 Blazer Invite Birmingham, Ala. 13 Vulcan Invite Birmingham, Ala. Twenty-one ranked opponents await the Mississippi State track and field program this weekend as the 18 Samford Multi Meet Birminham, Ala. Bulldogs split the squad for meets in Clemson, S.C. and Nashville, Tenn. 19-20 Vanderbilt Invite Nashville, Tenn. The larger portion of MSU’s team will head to the Music City Challenge hosted by Vanderbilt in Nashville. More FEBRUARY than 750 athletes representing 27 schools will be in attendance including conference foes Alabama, Missouri, 2 Crimson Elite Meet Boston, Mass. Ole Miss and Vanderbilt. 3 Bruce Lehane Invite Boston, Mass. The men will meet ranked opponents in the No. 5 Crimson Tide along with No. 2 Texas Tech, No. 16 Virginia 9-10 Music City Challenge Nashville, Tenn. Tech and No. 20 Michigan. MSU’s women are ranked No. 20 and will face No. 10 Ole Miss, No. 13 Michigan, 9-10 Tiger Paw Invite Clemson, S.C. No. 14 Missouri and No. 17 Alabama. 17 Alex Wilson Invite South Bend, Ind. 24-25 SEC Indoor Champ. College Station, Texas A smaller contingent will head to Clemson for the Tiger Paw Invitational where they will be joined by SEC members Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas A&M and South Carolina. MARCH Florida’s men are the top team in the nation, and Georgia is ranked No. 3 on the men’s side while holding 9-10 NCAA Indoor Champ. College Station, Texas the No. 2 spot in the women’s rankings. Every SEC team in attendance has at least one of their two teams ranked. OUTDOOR SCHEDULE MARCH MSU’s two SEC-leading athletes will both head to Clemson. Logan Boss, the national leader and indoor 23-24 Bulldog Relays Starkville, Miss. school record holder in her event, is entered in the high jump, while Marco Arop, the MSU 800m freshman 29-31 Florida Relays Gainesville, Fla. record holder and top Canadian in the event this year, will run on the 4x400m relay. 30-31 Stanford Invite Palo Alto, Calif. APRIL 6-7 Crimson Tide Invite Tuscaloosa, Ala. NEED TO KNOW 12-14 Tennessee Relays Knoxville, Tenn. 26-28 Penn Relays Philadelphia, Penn. • Two Bulldogs are among • Arop was named the SEC • Last weekend in Boston, the the world leaders entering the Runner of the Week on Feb. 6 women nearly doubled their weekend. Marco Arop is 20th in after winning the 800m while individual titles, collecting nine. MAY world in the 800m and holds the setting MSU's freshman record. • The Bulldogs finished second 11-13 SEC Outdoor Champ. Knoxville, Tenn. fastest Canadian time. Logan His time of 1:47.62 leads all at the Crimson Elite Meet with 24-26 NCAA Outdoor Prelims Tampa, Fla. Boss is second among U.S. SEC runners and is second-best 64 points, despite competing in athletes and 10th in the world in nationally this season. just seven events. The following JUNE the high jump. day, MSU won the Bruce Lehane 6-9 NCAA Outdoor Champ. Eugene, Ore. • Logan Boss set a new school Scarlet and White with 80 team ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS • Alicia Viveros matched MSU's record in the high jump with a points. freshman record in the shot nation-leading leap of 1.92m in Brian Ogden, Assistant Coordinator put last weekend with a toss of Boston. The mark is third in SEC • The SEC holds six of the Top 10 Email: [email protected] 14.16m. That mark ranks fourth in history, trailing only Georgia's spots in the women's USTFCCCA Cell: (972) 977-7459 school history. Mady Fagan and Leontia rankings this week and five of the Office: (662) 325-0970 Kallenou who both cleared 1.93m. Top 10 on the men's side. WHO'S HERE Athletics Communications Office Phone: (662) 325-0540 Music City Classic Tiger Paw Invitational Mailing: P.O. Box 5327, Mississippi State, MS 39762 MEN WOMEN MEN WOMEN 5Alabama, Cincinnati, 17Alabama, Austin Peay, Ball St., 5Alabama, 24Auburn, 17Alabama, Auburn, Georgia Tech, Indiana St., Cincinnati, Georgia Tech, Indiana Clemson, Duke, 1Florida, Clemson, Duke, 6Florida, Memphis, Miami (Ohio), St., Jacksonville, Memphis, 3Georgia, Georgia Tech, 2Georgia, Georgia Tech, CONNECT WITH US 20Michigan, Michigan St., Miami (Ohio), 13Michigan, 18Kentucky, Louisville, 5Kentucky, Louisville, MTSU, Missouri, North Michigan St., MTSU, Minnesota, Miami, North Carolina, Miami, North Carolina, HAILSTATE.COM Carolina, Ohio St., Ole 14Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio NC State, Tennessee, NC State, 18Tennessee, Miss, So. Illinois, So. Miss, St., 10Ole Miss, SMU, So. Illinois, 4Texas A&M, South 8Texas A&M, 19South 2Texas Tech, 16Virginia So. Miss, Texas Tech, UCF, Carolina, 15Southern Carolina, 4Southern @HAILSTATETF Tech, Wake Forest, West. Vanderbilt, Virginia Tech, Wake California, Virginia, California, Virginia, Kentucky Forest, West. Kentucky 9Virginia Tech Virginia Tech HAIL STATE MISSISSIPPI STATE TRACK & FIELD QUICK FACTS 2018 TOP INDOOR MARKS GENERAL INFORMATION MEN WOMEN Name ........................................Mississippi State University Event Athlete Time/Mark Event Athlete Time/Mark Nickname .................................................................Bulldogs 60m Lawrence Crawford 6.71 60m Justice Sims 7.60 Location ........................................................Starkville, Miss. 60mH Ro'Derick Spears 7.85 60mH Tiffany Flynn 8.33 Founded ......................................................... Feb. 28, 1878 200m Karson Kowalchuk 21.52 200m Justice Sims 24.84 Enrollment ...................................................................21,622 300m Malcum Tatum 35.37 400m Keturah Smith 55.00 Colors .................................Maroon (PMS 505) and White 400m Rasheed Tatham 47.46 500m Charlotte Cayton-Smith 1:13.19 Conference ..................................................... Southeastern 500m Rasheed Tatham 1:02.95 600m Alon Lewis 1:32.08 President .............................................Dr. Mark E. Keenum 600m Daniel Nixon 1:19.04 800m Charlotte Cayton-Smith 2:06.86 800m Marco Arop 1:47.62 1000m Rhianwedd Price-Weimer 2:47.82 Director of Athletics .......................................... John Cohen 1000m Aaron Phelps 2:29.84 Mile Rhianwedd Price-Weimer 4:41.23 Faculty Representative .................... Dr. Steven C. Turner Mile Aaron Phelps 4:10.14 3000m Antonia Hehr 9:39.69 Facility .................... Mike Sanders Track Complex (3,000) 3000m Stephen Jones 8:16.53 4x400m M. Mosley, K. Smith, 3:39.31 4x400m J. Waters, S. James, 3:09.71 A. Lewis, R. White 2017 FINAL RESULTS/RANKINGS M. Arop, R. Tatham DMR R. Price-Weimer, J. Bailey, 12:03.86 2017 NCAA Women's Cross Country ........................ 15th DMR A. Phelps, J. Willingham, 10:10.86 A. Staubach, S. Fair 2017 SEC Women's Cross Country ..............................5th J. Foos, S. Jones High Jump Logan Boss 1.92m 2017 NCAA Men's Indoor .............................................51st High Jump DeVantre Young 2.12m Long Jump Alexis Farley 5.73m 2017 NCAA Women's Indoor .......................................21st Long Jump Derrick Monroe 7.47m Triple Jump Tiffany Flynn 12.95m 2017 SEC Women's Indoor ............................................9th Triple Jump Gralyn Jones 14.37m Shot Put Alicia Viveros 14.16m 2017 NCAA Men's Outdoor ......................................... 26th Weight Throw Brianna Smith 21.05m 2017 NCAA Women's Outdoor ................................... 38th Pentathlon Shayla Broughton 3,317 pts 2017 SEC Men's Outdoor ............................................ 14th BULLDOGS IN THE NCAA RANKINGS (TOP 30) 2017 SEC Women's Outdoor ...................................... 13th Men Event Mark SEC NCAA Women Event Mark SEC NCAA Ro'Derick Spears 60H 7.85 9th 24th C. Cayton-Smith 800 2:06.86 5th 31st COACHING STAFF Marco Arop 800 1:47.62 1st 2nd R. Price-Weimer Mile 4:41.23 4th 19th Head Coach ..............................Steve Dudley Dejon Devroe 800 1:48.31 2nd 7th Mia Meydrich Mile 4:42.90 6th 27th Asst. Coach (Distance)..........Houston Franks Daniel Nixon 800 1:49.78 4th 21st Logan Boss HJ 1.92m 1st 1st Asst. Coach (Hurdles) ................ Steve Silvey Tiffany Flynn TJ 12.95m 10th 18th Asst. Coach (Throws) ................ April Thomas Brianna Smith WT 21.05m 3rd 11th Asst. Coach (Jumps) ............... Steve Thomas Asst. Coach (Sprints/Relays) .....Chris Woods TIGER PAW INVITATIONAL BULLDOG AWARD WINNERS Friday Saturday Time Event MSU Entries Time Event MSU Entries Marco Arop Fr. Edmonton, Alta. 1:30 p.m. W 60mH (Pre.) T. Flynn 10 a.m. W High Jump L. Boss SEC Freshman of the Week Jan. 23 1:30 p.m. M Long Jump D. Monroe, W. Reed 11:15 p.m. W 800m C. Cayton-Smith, A. Lewis SEC Runner of the Week Feb. 6 2:15 p.m. M 60mH (Pre.) W. Reed, R. Spears 11:25 p.m. M 800m D. Devroe, D. Nixon 3:50 p.m. M 60m (Pre.) T. Conwell, L. Crawford K. Small K. Kowalchuk 12 p.m. W Triple Jump A. Farley, T. Flynn 4:10 p.m. W 400m A. Lewis, M. Mosley, 12 p.m. M High Jump R. Miller, D. Young K. Smith, R. White 12:20 p.m. M 200m T. Conwell, L. Crawford 4:50 p.m. M 60mH (Fin.) TBD K. Kowalchuk 5 p.m. M 400m S. James, R. Tatham 1:35 p.m. W 4x400m Relay TBA M. Tatum, J. Waters 2 p.m. M 4x400m Relay TBA 5:40 p.m. M 60m (Fin.) TBD MUSIC CITY CHALLENGE Friday 11 a.m. W 800m (unsd.) A. Staubach Time Event MSU Entries 11 a.m. W Shot Put S. Broughton, Z. Tillman 4 p.m. W High Jump S. Broughton, Z. Tillman C. Tryon, A. Viveros 4 p.m. W Weight Throw T. Johnson, M. Lee, 1 p.m. M Triple Jump G. Jones B. Smith 1 p.m. W 60mH (Pre.) S. Broughton, Z.