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2013 TRACK AND FIELD TEXAS2005 Big 12 Outdoor Champions 17 NCAA Champions TECH95 Big 12 Champions TEXAS TECH SCHEDULE MT SAC RELAYS/AZUSA PACIFIC/BEACH INVITATIONAL/MICHAEL JOHNSON/DR. PEPPER CLASSIC WEEKEND BREAKDOWN INDOOR DATE: April 18-20 Date Meet Location RANKINGS: Men 16th/Women 15th Jan. 13 Texas Tech Open Lubbock, Texas Jan. 18-19 Masked Rider Open Lubbock, Texas MEET DATES LOCATION Jan. 25-26 Texas A&M Challenge College Station, Texas Mt SAC Relays April 18-20 Walnut, Calif. Feb. 1-2 Armory Collegiate Invite New York, New York Azusa Pacific Bryan Clay Invitational April 19 Azusa, Calif. Feb. 1-2 Meyo Invitational Notre Dame, Ind. Long Beach State Invitational April 19-20 Norwalk, Calif. Feb. 2 Red Raider Open Lubbock, Texas Baylor Michael Johnson Dr. Pepper Classic April 20 Waco, Texas Feb. 8-9 Tyson Invitational Fayetteville, Ark. Feb. 22-23 Big 12 Championships Ames, Iowa March 2 Last Chance Meets TBA FOLLOW TEXAS TECH ATHLETICS March 8-9 NCAA Championships Fayetteville, Ark. TWITTER - @TECHATHLETICS / @TECHGAMEDAY / @B_DROWNTTU FACEBOOK.COM/TECHATHLETICS OUTDOOR Date Meet Location March 14-16 Aztec Invitational San Diego, Calif. March 23 UTEP Invitational El Paso, Texas March 27-30 Texas Relays Austin, Texas TECH COMPETES IN FOUR MEETS OVER WEEKEND April 6 Texas Tech Open Lubbock, Texas April 13 UT Invitational Austin, Texas LUBBOCK - The Texas Tech track and field program will send athletes across the country this weekend to compete in four separate meets April 18-20 Mt. SAC Relays Walnut, Calif. including the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays in Walnut, Calif. The No. 16 Red Raiders and No. 15 Lady Raiders will also compete at the Azusa April 25 Red Raider Invitational Lubbock, Texas Pacific Bryan Clay Invitational, the Long Beach State Invitational along with the Baylor Michael Johnson/Dr. Pepper Invitational. May 3-5 Big 12 Championships Waco, Texas Texas Tech enters the weekend of competition fresh off a successful showing at the Texas Invitational in Austin, and with a total of May 23-25 NCAA West Preliminaries Austin, Texas 12 national top-20 marks. June 5-8 NCAA Championships Eugene, Ore. The contingent is led by sophomore thrower Kole Weldon who enters the week No. 2 in the men’s shot put while sophomore sprinter Cierra White and senior jumper Bryce Lamb own top-20 marks in multiple events. The Red Raiders and Lady Raiders are set to return to Lubbock and host their final home outdoor meet of the season April 25 with the Red Raider Open. TEXAS TECH ATHLETICS COMMUNICATIONS Track and Field Contact: Britton Drown Email: [email protected] Cell: (972) 679-5094 RETURNING 2012 OUTDOOR ALL-AMERICANS Office: (806) 742-2770 Athlete Event Outdoor Personal-Best Time/Mark Kyal Meyers Pole Vault 5.41 (17’-9.00”) Web: TexasTech.com Katie Grimes 100mH 13.15 Twitter: @TechAthletics/@TechGameDay/B_DrownTTU Cierra White 200m 22.91 Bryce Lamb 4x100 Relay Candace Jackson 4x100 Candace Jackson 4x400 TEXASTECH.COM 2013 STORYLINES RED RAIDERS IN THE NATIONAL TOP-48 MEN’S WHAT TO WATCH - 2013 STORYLINES Event Athlete Time/ Mark Natl. Ranking 400m Joseph Richards III 46.60@ 21 TECH ENTERS WEEK WITH 12 PERFORMANCES APPEARING IN NATIONAL TOP 20 1,500M Ezekiel Kissorio 3:45.38@ 10 The Texas Tech track and field program enters this week with a total of 12 performances appearing in the top-20 of the NCAA Division I 400mH Isaiah Gill 50.76 8 Outdoor Qualifying List.Texas Tech sophomore sprinter Cierra White highlights the contingent as the Philadelphia native currently owns Dwayne Extol 51.98 32 top 10 times in both the 100-meter dash and the 200-meter dash. White’s season-best of 11.12 seconds in the 100-meter dash ranks No. 3 nationally and leads the Big 12, while her time of 22.91 seconds in the 200-meter ranks No. 6 nationally. Sophomore thrower Kole Weldon Tramaine Maloney 52.37 44 enters the week with the highest individual ranking as his season-best of 19.43-meters (63’-9.00”) in the shot put ranks No. 2 nationally. 4x400 Relay 3:08.55@ 28 PV Kyal Meyers 5.36m (17’-7.00”) 16 RED RAIDERS, LADY RAIDERS REMAIN IN TOP 20 HJ Bradley Adkins 2.13 (6’-11.75”) 37 The Texas Tech track and field program enters a full weekend of competition with both teams remaining in the top 20 of the United States JaCorian Duffield 2.13 (6’-11.75”) 37 Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Week 3 computer rankings. The Red Raiders appeared at No. 16 and the Lady Raiders LJ Bryce Lamb 7.57m (24’-10.00”) 19 at No. 15 marking the fourth consecutive week this season both squads have been ranked in the top 20. TJ Bryce Lamb 15.89m (52’-1.75”) 8 SP Kole Weldon 19.43m (63’-9.00”) 2 WHITE TABBED BIG 12 ATHLETE OF THE WEEK - MARCH 27 JT Hannah Carson 52.16m (171’-1.00”) 6 Texas Tech sophomore sprinter Cierra White has been named the Big 12 Female Track and Field Athlete of the Week as announced by the Conference on March 27. White swept both the 100-meter and 200-meter dash at the annual UTEP Springtime Invitational leaping to No. 1 nationally in the 100 meters with a time of 11.09, and No. 2 in the 200 meters with a school record time of 22.91. White was a member @Converted for Altitude of the 2013 Indoor All-American 4x400 relay team and earned second team All-America honors last year in the outdoor 200-meter dash. She is the first Texas Tech sophomore to earn the recognition since Olympic Silver Medalist Sally Kipyego in 2007. RED RAIDERS, LADY RAIDERS - A CONSTANT IN THE TOP-25 The Red Raiders enter the Texas Tech Open No. 14 in the USTFCCCA Rankings while the Lady Raiders enter No. 13 in the Week 1 poll released Tuesday. It marked the 33rd consecutive USTFCCCA ranking in the top-20 and the 47th consecutive in the top-25 for the Red Raiders. The Red Raiders haven’t been ranked outside the top-25 since Week 5 of the 2008 regular season. The Lady Raiders have not been ranked outside the top-25 during the regular season since 2011 - a streak of 20-straight regular season computer rankings. KITHUKA TABBED TO APRIL MEN’S BOWERMAN WATCH LIST Texas Tech senior and 2013 NCAA Indoor 5,000-meter Champion Kennedy Kithuka remained on The Bowerman Watch List as the April edition was released Wednesday afternoon. Kithuka joins a list of 10 elite track and field athletes from across the nation, and is one of just two men’s athletes from the Big 12 appearing on the official watch list. The Bowerman will be awarded following the conclusion of the outdoor season in June and recognizes the top men’s and women’s athletes in collegiate track and field. During a prolific 2013 indoor track season, Kithuka became Texas Tech’s first male NCAA Champion in the men’s 5,000-meter run while also capturing Big 12 titles in both USTFCCCA 2013 OUTDOOR RANKINGS the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter run. Kithuka recorded the nation’s fastest time in the 5,000-meter run for the 2013 indoor season after clocking a school record time of 13:26.65 at the Tyson Invitational. The performance was more than 10 seconds faster than the second best collegiate time of the season. WEEK (DATE) RED RAIDERS LADY RAIDERS Preseason (3/19) 16 17 Week 1 (4/2) 14 13 Week 2 (4/9) 14 14 Week 3 (4/16) 16 15 Week 4 (4/23) - - Week 5 (4/30) - - Week 6 (5/7) - - Week 7 (5/14) - - Week 8 (5/21) - - Week 9 (5/28) - - Final (6/8) - - LADY RAIDERS IN THE NATIONAL TOP-48 EVENT BREAKDOWN WOMEN’S Event Athlete Mark Natl. Ranking TEXAS TECH SPRINTS 100m Cierra White 11.12 3 Texas Tech sophomore Cierra White enters the weekend ranked No. 3 in the women’s 100-meter dash and No. 6 in the women’s 200-meter 200m Cierra White 22.91 6 dash. White broke the school record in the 200-meter dash at the UTEP Invitational with a time of 22.91 after recording a season-best 11.09 (converted to 11.12 for altitude) in the 100-meter dash. White went 22.99 in the 200-meter dash last weekend at the Texas Invitational Candace Jackson 23.55 35 in Austin and leads the Big 12 in the 100-meter dash and is No. 2 in the 200-meter dash. Meanwhile, freshman Joseph Richards III enters 100mH Katie Grimes 13.19@ 9 the meet No. 21 nationally and No. 8 in the West Region in the men’s 400-meter dash with a season-best of 46.49 seconds (converted to Le’Tristan Pledger 13.35 21 46.60 for altitude). 4x100 Relay 44.57@ 15 4x400 Relay 3:33.52 11 LJ Le’Tristan Pledger 6.11 (20’-0.50”) 37 TEXAS TECH HURDLES JT Hannah Carson 52.16m (171’-1.00”) 6 Texas Tech senior Katie Grimes highlights the crew of hurdlers for Texas Tech in 2013. Grimes, the 2012 Big 12 Outdoor Runner Up in the 100-meter hurdles, enters this weekend after breaking her own school record in the event at the Texas Tech Open (April 6). Grimes finished @Converted for Altitude first at the Texas Tech Open with a school record time of 13.15 seconds to leap to No.