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University of Georgia 2021 OUTdoor Track & Field georgiadogs.com // Twitter/Instagram: @UGATrack 2021 Outdoor Schedule Where To Catch The 2021 SEC Championships Date Event (Location) Results The SEC Outdoor Championships will air on SEC Network+ March 19-20 Yellow Jacket Invitational (Atlanta, Ga.) NTS on Thursday-Friday, May 13-14 and on the SEC Network on March 25-26 FSU Relays (Tallahassee, Fla.) NTS Saturday, May 15. The broadcast talent includes Dwight March 26-27 Raleigh Relays (Raleigh, N.C.) NTS Stones, Dan O’Brien and Jill Montgomery and April 9-10 Spec Towns Invitational (ATHENS) NTS John Anderson (sideline reporter). April 16-17 Tom Jones Memorial (Gainesville, Fla.) NTS SEC Network+ info: April 16-17 Virginia Challenge (Charlottesville, Va.) NTS Thursday, May 13 (6:40 p.m. ET - 10:30 p.m.) April 30-May 1 Torrin Lawrence Memorial (ATHENS) NTS LINK: http://gado.gs/6zb May 13-15 SEC Championships (College Station, Texas) Friday, May 14 (5:35 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.) May 27-29 NCAA East Prelims (Jacksonville, Fla.) LINK: http://gado.gs/6zd June 9-12 NCAA Championships (Eugene, Ore.) SEC Network info: Saturday, May 15 (6 p.m. - 10 p.m.) Bulldogs Begin The Postseason At SEC Indoor Championships The sixth-ranked Georgia women and 16th-ranked Bulldog men traveled to Col- A Glimpse At The 2020 SEC Championships: With the lege Station, Texas, on Wednesday in preparation for the Southeastern Confer- 2020 outdoor season canceled, the Bulldogs last competed at ence Outdoor Championships at the E.B. Cushing Stadium scheduled for Thurs- an SEC Outdoor Championships in 2019. That year, the men day through Saturday. were ninth with 43 points and the women took 10th with 42.5 points. Amber Tanner held off the nearest competitor in the When Do The Bulldogs Start?: Junior Alencar Pereira begins the action 800m by .22 for runner-up honors, Jessica Drop was third in in the men’s hammer throw at 1 p.m. ET on Thursday. Redshirt sophomore Kyle the 5000m and Kayla Smith managed to tie for fourth in the Garland and junior Ziggy Zoller start the decathlon competition for Georgia with pole vault to highlight the Lady Bulldog scorers, who are all the 100-meter dash at 3 p.m. on the first day followed by the long jump, shot put, returners. On the men’s side, Denzel Comenentia won the shot high jump and 400m. Sophomore Anna Hall and graduate transfer Asya Reynolds put and earned silver medal honors in the discus and hammer begin their heptathlon with the 100m hurdles at 3:20 p.m. followed by the high jump, throw to win his second straight Commissioner’s Trophy at shot put and 200m. The first event on the track for the Bulldogs is the 800m prelims the SEC outdoor meet. Karel Tilga was also second in the with junior Clay Pender slated to run. decathlon. This season, Tilga will be competing in the open javelin, 110m hurdles and discus at SECs. Who Is Ranked In The SEC?: A total of 17 SEC men and women’s track and field programs are included in the latest U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches What’s Next For The Bulldogs?: After the SEC meet, Association (USTFCCCA) top 25 national rankings released Monday, including nine the Bulldogs will train through the next weekend before trav- in the top 10. A nation-leading eight SEC men’s teams are ranked: No. 1 LSU, No. eling to Jacksonville for the NCAA East Prelims (May 27-29). 8 Florida, No. 10 Texas A&M, No. 11 Alabama, No. 13 Arkansas, No. 14 Tennessee, The NCAA Championships will arrive in Eugene, Ore., for the No. 16 Georgia and No. 18 Kentucky. first time since 2018. That year, the Bulldog men captured the A nation-best nine SEC women’s teams are also ranked in the top 25: No. 1 LSU, team national championship in the last meet before Hayward No. 2 Arkansas, No. 3 Texas A&M, No. 6 Georgia, No. 7 Alabama, No. 10 Florida, Field was renovated. No. 18 Auburn, No. 23 Kentucky and No. 25 South Carolina. Quick Facts Assist. Coaches..........Assoc. Head Coach Don Babbitt (Throws) School..................................................University of Georgia ......Assoc. Head Coach/Recruiting Coord. Althea Thomas (Sprints, Hurdles, Relays) Location...............................................................Athens, Ga. ......................................................Patrick Cunniff (Distance) Founded .........................................................................1785 ..........................................Russ Johnson (M./W. Pole Vault) President.....................Jere W. Morehead (Georgia JD, ‘80) ...............................Ryan Grinnell (Jumps, Multis Assistant) Enrollment ..................................................................38,920 Director of Operations................................Melissa Beasley Nickname ................................................................Bulldogs Athletic Trainers..........................CJ Walker, Caroline Miles Colors .............................................................Red and Black ...............................................................Alex Burdon (Intern) Conference ......................................................Southeastern UGA SID .......................Leland Barrow - Cell-678-378-3085 J. Reid Parker Dir. of Athletics.......Josh Brooks (LSU ‘02; Masters - Georgia ‘76) 2021 W. SEC Ind., 2019 SEC Out............3rd (69), 10th (42.5) Head Coach.......................Petros Kyprianou (Jumps, Multis) 2021 M. SEC Ind., 2019 SEC Out...............10th (31), 9th (43) University of Georgia 2021 OUTdoor Track & Field Meet Schedule 8:05 pm Men’s Long Jump 9:00 pm Women’s Shot Put Thursday, May 13 DECATHLON - DAY ONE RUNNING EVENTS 3:00 pm ET 100m 7:00 pm Men’s 110m Hurdle Prelims 3:40 pm Long Jump 7:15 pm Women’s 100m Hurdle Prelims 4:40 pm Shot Put 7:40 pm Men’s 1500m Prelims 5:35 pm High Jump 8:00 pm Women’s 1500m Prelims 7:05 pm 400m 8:20 pm Men’s 400m Prelims 8:45 pm Women’s 400m Prelims HEPTATHLON - DAY ONE 9:10 pm Men’s 100m Prelims 3:20 pm 100m Hurdles 9:35 pm Women’s 100m Prelims 4:00 pm High Jump 10:00 pm Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final 5:55 pm Shot Put 10:20 pm Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Final 6:50 pm 200m Saturday, May 15 FIELD EVENTS FIELD EVENTS 1:00 pm Men’s Hammer 3:30 pm Men’s Triple Jump/Men’s Discus 4:30 pm Women’s Javelin 6:00 pm Women’s Discus/Men’s Pole Vault 7:30 pm Men’s Javelin 6:15 pm Women’s Triple Jump 6:45 pm Women’s High Jump RUNNING EVENTS 7:30 pm Men’s 800m Prelims 7:50 pm Women’s 800m Prelims RUNNING EVENTS 6:00 pm Men’s 4x100m Relay Final 8:10 pm Men’s 200m Prelims 6:15 pm Women’s 4x100m Relay Final 8:35 pm Women’s 200m Prelims 6:25 pm Men’s 1500m Final 9:00 pm Men’s 400m Hurdle Prelims 6:35 pm Women’s 1500m Final 9:20 pm Women’s 400m Hurdle Prelims 6:45 pm Men’s 110m Hurdle Final 9:40 pm Men’s 10,000m Final 6:55 pm Women’s 100m Hurdle Final 10:20 pm Women’s 10,000m Final 7:05 pm Men’s 400m Final 7:15 pm Women’s 400m Final Friday, May 14 7:25 pm Men’s 100m Final DECATHLON - DAY TWO 7:35 pm Women’s 100m Final 2:45 pm 110m Hurdles 7:45 pm Men’s 800m Final 3:30 pm Discus 7:55 pm Women’s 800m Final 4:40 pm Pole Vault 8:05 pm Men’s 400m Hurdle Final 6:15 pm Javelin 8:15 pm Women’s 400m Hurdle Final 7:30 pm 1500m 8:25 pm Men’s 200m Final 8:35 pm Women’s 200m Final HEPTATHLON - DAY TWO 8:45 pm Men’s 5000m Final 3:35 pm Long Jump 9:05 pm Women’s 5000m Final 4:45 pm Javelin 9:30 pm Men’s 4x400m Relay Final 5:45 pm 800m 9:40 pm Women’s 4x400m Relay Final 10:00 pm Awards Ceremony FIELD EVENTS 3:00 pm Women’s Hammer 5:30 pm Women’s Long Jump 6:00 pm Men’s High Jump 7:05 pm Women’s Pole Vault 7:20 pm Men’s Shot Put University of Georgia 2021 OUTdoor Track & Field Petros Kyprianou Leading Dogs For Sixth Year This marks only the second time in history that both Petros Kyprianou was hired away from Boise State, landed in Athens as an assistant in 2008 and genders from the same team were each named the Schol- after being named UGA Associate Head Coach in 2014, the Cyprus native took the reins as the UGA pro- ar Team of the Year in the same year. gram’s 10th head coach in history in June 2015. During his time at Georgia, Kyprianou has helped trans- l The men’s cross country team finished the 2020 fall se- form the Bulldogs, specifically its combined events and jumps, into a national power year in and year out. mester with the UGA’s top cumulative GPA at 3.376. This The Bulldogs have combined for 25 top-20 team finishes at the NCAA Championships and 12 top-10 marked the seventh semester out of the last eight that the finishes since the 2009 season, which was Kyprianou’s first season in red and black. During that span, the Dog distance corps topped their fellow UGA teams in the student-athletes he coaches have captured 28 NCAA individual titles and 47 SEC individual crowns. In category. l addition, Kyprianou led his teams to No. 4/No. 5 national rankings and 16 All-America certificates to end Jessica Drop (2020 SEC Indoor Scholar-Athlete of the the 2020 indoor season shortened by the pandemic. Year) and Samantha Drop (2020 SEC XC Scholar-Athlete of the Year) added more individual academic honors for the Here is a look at the national finishes for Georgia since Kyprianou became head coach in 2016: Dogs.