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University of Georgia 2012 Indoor Track & Field georgiadogs.com 2012 Georgia Track & Field Schedule ESPN3.com will broadcast portions of the SEC Indoor Indoor Championships live online. The schedule is: Date Event (Location) Results Saturday – 2:05-7:30 p.m. ET Jan. 13-14 Kentucky Invitational (Lexington, Ky.) NTS Jan. 20-21 Auburn Invitational (*Birmingham, Ala.) NTS Sunday – 1:25-5:00 p.m. Jan. 27-28 Razorback Invitational (Fayetteville, Ark.) NTS Jan. 28 Mark Colligan Memorial (Lincoln, Neb.) M-4 (88), W-4 (48) The SEC meet will air as part of a 90-minute show on Feb. 3-4 Virginia Tech Elite (Blacksburg, Va.) NTS ESPNU on Sunday,March 11 from 5-6:30 p.m. Feb. 10-11 Tiger Paw Invitational (Clemson, S.C.) NTS Tyson Invitational (Fayetteville, Ark.) NTS Husky Classic (Seattle, Wash.) NTS Feb. 24-26 SEC Indoor Championships (Lexington) 2012 NCAA Automatic Qualifying Marks March 3 NCAA Qualifier (TBA) Name Event Mark/Time March 9-10 NCAA Indoor Championships (Boise, Idaho) Morgann Leleux Pole Vault ^14-4.50 * - at Birmingham Crossplex; NTS - No Team Score Two Cory Holman Heptathlon $5,809 pts. ^ - 2nd on school’s all-time top-10 list; $ - school record Bulldogs Surge Into SEC Indoor Championships Exploding for 25 season- or personal-best marks during the hurdles) kicks off the meet at 2:30 p.m. on Friday and all five last weekend of the regular season, Georgia’s teams are poised to make a events will be completed that first day. push for the award podiums at the 2012 Southeastern Conference Indoor The men’s weight throw, an event that sophomore Jus- Championships. The Bulldogs will travel to Lexington, Ky., for the meet tin Welch is ranked fourth at in the conference and 12th nation- on February 24-26. This will mark the second time most of UGA’s team ally, is the first individual event at 11 a.m. on Saturday. The first members have traveled to Kentucky after the teams opened the 2012 cam- individual event scheduled on the track is the women’s 60 hurdle paign in the Kentucky Invitational at the Nutter Field House. prelims at 2:10 p.m. on Saturday. The Lady Bulldogs last left the SEC indoor meet as champions in 2006. The Georgia women scored 101.50 points that season thanks in 2011 FLASHBACK:Felix Wins To Highlight SECs part to having four SEC individual champions. While the Bulldog men are Colleen Felix captured Georgia’s only individual title still in search of an indoor SEC team title, they have earned runner-up hon- in the triple jump at the 2011 SECs as the Bulldog men scored ors (1982) and have been in the top five six out of the last eight seasons. 55.3 for fifth and the Lady Bulldogs tallied 54 for sixth. Felix Senior Cory Holman, who set the school record in the hep- was one of four UGA women to score in the triple jump. tathlon (5,809 pts.) earlier this season and is fifth on this year’s national On top of Lucie Ondraschkova’s second-place finish performance list, along with senior Michael Ayers and freshman Garrett in the pentathlon for the Bulldog returners, Aaron Evans earned Scantling will start the action for the Bulldogs with event No. 1 of the runner-up honors in the 800, and is seeded at the same spot this multi-events (60-meter dash) at 3:15 p.m. on Friday. The heptathletes will year with a 1:47.88. Ayers (hep.) and Torrin Lawrence (400) complete four of seven events on day one. While Scantling will be getting finished third in their events with season-best marks. his first taste of SEC competition, Ayers was third at the 2011 SEC meet Also of note, Holman, who sat out in 2011, set an SEC and won the conference crown in 2009 while competing for Tennessee. Championships record in 2010 in the heptathlon high jump after Runner-up in the pentathlon at last year’s league meet, junior soaring over the bar at 7 feet, 1 3/4 inches. Holman wrapped up Lucie Ondraschkova injured herself earlier in the season and is question- the meet in third as teammate Tommy Barrineau won Georgia’s able for competition in Lexington. The first event of the pentathlon (60 first championship in the heptathlon two years ago. Quick Facts School ........................................... University of Georgia Asst. Coaches..Petros Kyprianou (Aristotle Univ. ‘01)-Pole Vault/Multis Location ........................................................ Athens, Ga. ......................................... Jon Stuart (Georgia ‘92)-Sprints/Hurdles Founded ................................................................... 1785 .................George Cleare (Galilee, ‘09)-Women’s Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps President ....................................... Dr. Michael F. Adams ...................................................... Jeff Pigg (Florida ‘88)-Distance Enrollment ............................................................ 34,667 Athletic Trainer ..................David Chandler, Megan Fenton (GA) Nickname .......................................................... Bulldogs 2011 W. SEC, NCAA Indoors ..................................6th (54), NTS Colors ....................................................... Red and Black 2011 M. SEC, NCAA Indoors .......................5th (55.3), T26th (8) Conference .................................................. Southeastern Facility .............................................. Forrest “Spec” Towns Track Athletic Director ................Greg McGarity (Georgia ‘76) UGA SID ..............................Leland Barrow - Cell-678-378-3085 Head Coach ........................ Wayne Norton (Howard ‘81) UGA Sports Communications Office ................ (706) 542-1621 Asst. Coaches .............. 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(706) 542-7915 2012 SEC Indoor Track & Field Championships Schedule of Events Friday, Feb. 24 2:45 p.m. Women’s 5,000-Meter Run (Final) 2:30 p.m. Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles (Pentathlon) 3:00 p.m. Men’s Shot Put (Final) 3:15 p.m. Men’s 60-Meter Dash (Heptathlon) 3:10 p.m. Women’s 800-Meter Run (Final) 3:25 p.m. Women’s High Jump (Pentathlon) 3:20 p.m. Men’s 800-Meter Run (Final) 3:55 p.m. Men’s Long Jump (Heptathlon) 3:30 p.m. Women’s 200-Meter Dash (Final) 5:30 p.m. Women’s Shot Put (Pentathlon) 3:40 p.m. Men’s 200-Meter Dash (Final) 5:30 p.m. Men’s Shot Put (Heptathlon) 3:50 p.m. Men’s 5,000-Meter Run (Final) 6:30 p.m. Women’s Long Jump (Pentathlon) 4:10 p.m. Women’s Distance Medley Relay (Final) 7:05 p.m. Men’s High Jump (Heptathlon) 4:25 p.m. Men’s Distance Medley Relay (Final) 8:05 p.m. Women’s 800-Meter Run (Pentathlon) 4:40 p.m. Women’s 4x400-Meter Relay (Final) 4:55 p.m. Men’s 4x400-Meter Relay (Final) Saturday, Feb. 25 11:00 a.m. Men’s Weight !row (Final) 11:00 a.m. Men’s High Jump (Final) Noon Women’s Pole Vault (Final) 1:00 p.m. Women’s Long Jump (Final) 2:10 p.m. Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelim) Field Event 2:30 p.m. Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles (Prelim) 2:50 p.m. Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles (Heptathlon) 3:00 p.m. Women’s Shot Put (Final) 3:10 p.m. Women’s 60-Meter Dash (Prelim) 3:30 p.m. Men’s 60-Meter Dash (Prelim) 3:40 p.m. Men’s Pole Vault (Heptathlon) 3:50 p.m. Women’s One-Mile Run (Prelim) 4:10 p.m. Men’s One-Mile Run (Prelim) 4:30 p.m. Women’s 400-Meter Dash (Prelim) 4:45 p.m. Men’s Long Jump (Final) 4:50 p.m. Men’s 400-Meter Dash (Prelim) 5:10 p.m. Women’s 800-Meter Run (Prelim) 5:35 p.m. Men’s 800-Meter Run (Prelim) TBD Men’s 1,000-Meter Run (Heptathlon) 6:00 p.m. Women’s 200-Meter Dash (Prelim) 6:25 p.m. Men’s 200-Meter Dash (Prelim) 6:55 p.m. Women’s 3,000-Meter Run (Final) 7:15 p.m. Men’s 3,000-Meter Run (Final) Sunday, Feb. 26 11:00 a.m. Women’s Weight !row (Final) 11:00 a.m. Women’s High Jump (Final) 11:00 a.m. Women’s Triple Jump (Final) 11:00 a.m. Men’s Pole Vault (Final) 1:30 p.m. Women’s 60-Meter Hurdles (Final) 1:40 p.m. Men’s 60-Meter Hurdles (Final) 1:50 p.m. Women’s 60-Meter Dash (Final) 1:55 p.m. Men’s 60-Meter Dash (Final) 2:05 p.m. Women’s One-Mile Run (Final) 2:15 p.m. Men’s One-Mile Run (Final) 2:25 p.m. Women’s 400-Meter Dash (Final) 2:30 p.m. Men’s Triple Jump (Final) 2:35 p.m. Men’s 400-Meter Dash (Final) Georgia Track & Field georgiadogs.com Five Things To Know About This Year’s Bulldogs: gone over at least 13 feet, 7 inches in 1. Last Chance At Conference Indoors Lawrence In UGA Indoor Record Books all four of her meets this season and Senior Torrin Lawrence has had arguably one of the Event Time Pos. In Record Books automatically qualified for the NCAA top indoor careers of any SEC sprinter. After setting meet after winning the Virginia Tech the school record in the 200m (20.77) during the first 400m 45.03 1st Elite meet with a career-best mark of meet of his career in 2009 in the same UK facility 200m 20.77 1st 14-4.50. This mark is second in the where he will be racing this weekend, Lawrence won *4x400m 3:07.45 1st Bulldog record books and No. 2 on this season’s national performance list. the SEC 200 title as a freshman (also in Nutter Field 60m 6.75 T3rd House in Ky.) and earned All-America honors in * - Lawrence was also on Bulldog relay teams fea- the same event later that season.