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University of Georgia 2018 OUTdoor Track & Field georgiadogs.com // Twitter/Instagram: @UGATrack // Snapchat: ugatrack >>>>>>>>>>>>2018 NCAA Indoor women's champions>>>>>>>>>>>> 2018 Outdoor Schedule Where To Catch The 2018 SEC Championships Date Event (Location) Results The SEC Outdoor Championships will air on SEC Network+ March 16-17 Yellow Jacket Invitational (Atlanta, Ga.) NTS for all three days of competition and Sunday’s action March 28-31 Texas Relays (Austin, Texas) NTS will be live on the SEC Network at 6 p.m. The broad- Bobcat Invitational (San Marcos, Texas) NTS cast talent includes Dwight Stones (play-by-play), Larra April 6-7 Spec Towns Invitational (Athens, Ga.) NTS Overton and Jill Montgomery (analysts) and John Anderson (sideline reporter). Bulldog Decathlon/Heptathlon April 19-21 Mt. SAC Relays (Torrance, Calif.) NTS SEC Network+ info for SEC Outdoor Championships: Beach Invitational (Long Beach, Calif.) NTS Friday, May 11 (11 a.m.) May 5 Torrin Lawrence Memorial (Athens, Ga.) NTS LINK: http://gado.gs/91a May 11-13 SEC Championships (Knoxville, Tenn.) Saturday, May 12 (10:15 a.m.) May 24-26 NCAA East Prelims (Tampa, Fla.) LINK:http://gado.gs/91b June 6-9 NCAA Championships (Eugene, Ore.) Sunday, May 13 (2:30 p.m.) LINK:http://gado.gs/91c Bulldogs Travel To SEC Championships To Start Postseason Seniors Cejhae Greene, Jon Moses, Henry Dw- The Bulldog track and field program traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., on yer, Eric Westog, Bryan Kamau, Saluri, Alex Larsson, Wednesday in preparation for the Southeastern Conference Outdoor Champi- Addy Lippitt, Tatiana Gusin, Keturah Orji, Emily Savage, onships, which run at the Laporte Stadium from Friday through Sunday. Anna Machovec, Aliyah Johnson, juniors Kendal Wil- The sixth-ranked Georgia women and Bulldog men will be back competing liams, Jeramey Hampton, Kimura Smith, Raytez Jenkins, at the conference level for the first time since taking second and fifth, in that order, Mary Terry, Keenon Laine, Michael Nicholls, Austin at this year’s SEC indoor meet in late February. The Lady Bulldogs went on to win Sprague, sophomores Tiffany Yue, Tanner, Jessica Drop, the program’s first national team title at the NCAA Indoor Championships while the Samantha Drop, Yanely Gomez, Micaiah Ransby, Kate Georgia men finished with their top indoor national finish in history, taking third. Hall, Louisa Grauvogel, Tairyn Montgomery, Darius Car- Senior Karl Saluri starts the meet for the Bulldogs in the decathlon’s first bin, Mecole Hardman, Jonathan Pelham and freshmen event (100-meter dash) at 1:30 p.m. on Friday. He and the field will complete four Michael Hans, Johannes Erm, Justes Nance, McClintock, more events (long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m) on the first day before wrapping Lynna Irby, Tara Davis, Marie-Therese Obst, Antonios up his final five on Saturday. Merlos and Eric Stokes are slated to compete at SECs. Junior Joe Kimura Smith (javelin) begins the open events for Georgia Nine traveling graduated from UGA on May 4. Mo- at 3 p.m. on Friday. Sophomore Amber Tanner and freshman Halle McClintock ses, Dwyer, Westog, Kamau, Larsson, Lippitt, Gusin, Orji and (800m prelims) are the first Lady Bulldogs on the track, also at 3 p.m. Johnson earned their degree and will now have at least one, “Finally, we are arriving at the most fun time of the year in my opinion, the and possibly three, meets left in the Red and Black. championship season,” said third-year head coach Petros Kyprianou. “Our teams Results and recaps from the SEC Outdoor Champion- are more designed for NCAA competitions rather than SECs but we will strive to ships will be found at georgiadogs.com. News and updates gather as many individual titles as we can in every event area. That will set us up for from Georgia’s track and field and cross country teams are al- Prelims and hopefully qualify as many as we can for Eugene (NCAA Championships). ways located on Twitter/Instagram at @UGATrack. That is the main goal, that is the main reason why we show up to work every day.” Quick Facts Assist. Coaches..........Assoc. Head Coach Don Babbitt (Throws) School..................................................University of Georgia .......Assoc. Head Coach Ken Harnden (Men’s Sprints, Hurdles) Location...............................................................Athens, Ga. ......................................................Patrick Cunniff (Distance) Founded .........................................................................1785 ......Recruiting Coord. Althea Thomas (Women’s Sprints, Hurdles) President.....................Jere W. Morehead (Georgia JD, ‘80) ...........................Tatijana Jacobson (Jumps, Multis Assist.) Enrollment ..................................................................37,606 Director of Operations....................................LaVera Morris Nickname ................................................................Bulldogs Athletic Trainers...................Yolanda Lawrence, Eric Prince Colors .............................................................Red and Black .....................................................................Stacey Kisil, GA Conference ......................................................Southeastern UGA SID .......................Leland Barrow - Cell-678-378-3085 J. Reid Parker Dir. of Athletics .................. Greg McGarity (Georgia ‘76) 2018 W. SEC Ind., 2017 SEC Out.............2nd (84.5), 4th (77) Head Coach.......................Petros Kyprianou (Jumps, Multis) 2018 M. SEC Ind., 2017 SEC Out..............5th (71), 6th (22.5) University of Georgia 2018 OUTdoor Track & Field Meet Schedule RUNNING EVENTS Friday, May 11 6:30 pm Women’s 100m Hurdle Prelims DECATHLON - DAY ONE 6:50 pm Men’s 110m Hurdle Prelims 1:30 pm ET 100m 7:10 pm Women’s 1500m Prelims 2:15 pm Long Jump 7:30 pm Men’s 1500m Prelims 3:30 pm Shot Put 7:55 pm Women’s 400m Prelims 4:30 pm High Jump 8:20 pm Men’s 400m Prelims 6:00 pm 400m 8:45 pm Women’s 100m Prelims 9:10 pm Men’s 100m Prelims HEPTATHLON - DAY ONE 9:35 pm Women’s 3000m Steeplechase Final 2:00 pm 100m Hurdles 9:55 pm Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final 2:45 pm High Jump 4:45 pm Shot Put Sunday, May 13 6:15 pm 200m FIELD EVENTS 2:30 pm Women’s High Jump FIELD EVENTS 3:00 pm Women’s Discus 11:00 am Women’s Hammer 3:00 pm Women’s Triple Jump 3:00 pm Men’s Javelin 3:45 pm Men’s Pole Vault 7:00 pm Men’s Hammer 6:30 pm Women’s Pole Vault 6:30 pm Men’s Triple Jump RUNNING EVENTS 6:45 pm Men’s Discus 3:00 pm Women’s 800m Prelims 7:00 pm Men’s High Jump 3:20 pm Men’s 800m Prelims 3:40 pm Women’s 200m Prelims 4:05 pm Men’s 200m Prelims RUNNING EVENTS 4:35 pm Women’s 400m Hurdle Prelims 6:02 pm Women’s 4x100m Relay Final 5:05 pm Men’s 400m Hurdle Prelims 6:10 pm Men’s 4x100m Relay Final 9:30 pm Women’s 10,000m Final 6:20 pm Women’s 1500m Final 10:15 pm Men’s 10,000m Final 6:30 pm Men’s 1500m Final 6:40 pm Women’s 100m Hurdle Final Saturday, May 12 6:50 pm Men’s 110m Hurdle Final HEPTATHLON - DAY TWO 7:00 pm Women’s 400m Final 10:15 am Long Jump 7:10 pm Men’s 400m Final 11:30 am Javelin 7:20 pm Women’s 100m Final 1:30 pm 800m 7:30 pm Men’s 100m Final 7:40 pm Women’s 800m Final DECATHLON - DAY TWO 7:50 pm Men’s 800m Final 12:00 pm 110m Hurdles 8:00 pm Women’s 400m Hurdle Final 12:45 pm Discus 8:10 pm Men’s 400m Hurdle Final 2:45 pm Pole Vault 8:20 pm Women’s 200m Final 6:00 pm Javelin 8:30 pm Men’s 200m Final 8:00 pm 1500m 8:40 pm Women’s 5000m Final 9:00 pm Men’s 5000m Final FIELD EVENTS 9:25 pm Women’s 4x400m Relay Final 2:00 pm Men’s Long Jump 9:35 pm Men’s 4x400m Relay Final 3:00 pm Women’s Javelin 3:00 pm Men’s Shot Put 7:30 pm Women’s Long Jump 7:30 pm Women’s Shot Put 7:00 pm Women’s Shot Put University of Georgia 2018 OUTdoor Track & Field Head Coach Petros Kyprianou Drives Dogs Into Year Three Bulldogs Boast Academic Success Petros Kyprianou was hired away from Boise State in 2008, landed in Athens as an Not only did the Lady Bulldogs win the assistant and after being named UGA Associate Head Coach in 2014, the Cyprus native took the 2018 NCAA indoor team title and now hold a No. reins as the UGA program’s 10th head coach in history in June 2015. During his time at Georgia, 6 ranking alongside the Bulldog men, but Georgia’s Kyprianou has helped transform the Bulldogs, specifically its combined events and jumps, into a program also been showing up in the classroom. national power year in and year out. l The Lady Bulldogs were named the 2017 The Bulldogs have combined for 20 top-20 team finishes at the NCAA Championships USTFCCCA Division I Indoor & Outdoor Scholar and 14 top-10 finishes since the 2009 season. During that span, the student-athletes he coach- Teams of the Year. es have captured 24 NCAA individual titles and 34 SEC individual crowns. Kyprianou’s crew has l Georgia’s most decorated current team member been particularly potent over the last four and a half years (2014-18). on the track, senior Keturah Orji, graduated on May 4 with a 3.97 GPA in Financial Planning and is a: Here is a look at the average national finishes for the country’s top women’s teams since 2014: * Two-time CoSIDA First Team Academic NCAA INDOORS (2014-18) All-American; SEC Boyd-McWhorter Recipient Oregon - 2; GEORGIA - 2.4; Arkansas - 3.2 * Three-time USTFCCCA National Women’s Scholar NCAA OUTDOORS Athlete of the Year Oregon - 1.75; GEORGIA 3.75; Arkansas - 5 * 2016 and 2018 (2x) SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year l The Georgia women’s cross country team (3.49) Here is a look at the average national finishes for the top women’s teams since 2013: and the Bulldog men’s cross team (3.37) led the way NCAA INDOORS (2013-18) among all of UGA’s sports for 2017.