MEET NOTES | PAYTON JORDAN INVITE/MASKED RIDER OPEN | WEEK OF MAY 5 UNMLOBOXCTF New Mexico track Field 118 Mountain West titles | 76 All-Americans | 11 Academic All-American honors | 7 MW team championships | 7 NCAA individual titles under head coach Joe Franklin NEW MEXICO ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS | CONTACT: MIKE MULCAHY | [email protected] | (505) 379-2029 This Week Payton Jordan Invitational | Masked Rider Open 2018 SCHEDULE Where Cobb Track and Angell Field, Stanford, Calif. | Fuller Track & Field, Lubbock, Texas When Thursday, May 3 | Saturday, May 5 INDOOR Live Results RecordTiming.com | pttiming.com Date Event location 12/2 BU Season Opener Boston, Mass. Lobos Cap Regular season Cutler race the 400. 1/19-20 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invite Albuquerque at Stanford and Texas Tech The women’s sprinters will be represented by Erynn Caldwell (100/200), Akeisha Ayanniyi 1/27 New Mexico Team Invite Albuquerque New Mexico track & field is aiming to cap its (100) and Steffi Jones (400). Kyra Mohns is regular season this week with some strong also entered in the 100 hurdles. 2/2-3 New Mexico Classic Albuquerque results as competes at the Payton Jordan Invitational on Thursday and the Masked Rider In the middle-distance and distance events, 2/9-10 Washington Husky Classic Seattle, Wash. Open on Saturday. Kristian Uldbjerg Hansen, Jonny Glen, Taylor Potter, Chris Graham and Jared Garcia are 2/9-10 Don Kirby Invitational Albuquerque Lobos are sending some distance standouts to running the men’s 1500, with Jacob Simonsen Stanford and the rest of the squad to Texas Tech and Brandon Parrado in the men’s 5000. 2/22-24 Mountain West Indoor Albuquerque with the goal of gaining some final improvement Track & Field Championships in their final meets before the Mountain West Alex Buck, Elizabeth Weiler, Mackenzie Championship later in the month. Everett and Samantha Dicker are running in 3/9-10 NCAA Division I Indoor College Station, Texas the women’s metric mile, as well. Track & Field Championships The Masked Rider Open at Texas Tech’s Fuller Track and Field will provide UNM’s sprinters, Out in the field events, the men will compete most hurdlers and field-event athletes a good of their standouts, including Tanner Battikha in outDOOR opportunity to compete at in relatively low-key, the long jump and triple jump, Brent Dionisio in Date Event location low-pressure environment. the high jump, Malik Matthews-Gordon in the javelin and Jason Atencio in the pole vault. 3/24 UTEP Springtime Invitational El Paso, Texas The Payton Jordan Invite, on the other hand, is almost the exact opposite, as hundreds of world- Goldston, Miles Brinson and Omarei Gregory 3/31 Stanford Invitational Stanford, Calif. class runners will converge on Stanford’s Cobb are also entered in the long jump, while Beau Track and Angell Field looking for fast times. 4/7 Don Kirby Tailwind Invite Albuquerque Clafton is entered in the shot put and discus. Leading the charge at the Payton Jordan is The women will also see their top field-event 4/13-14 Triton Invitational La Jolla, Calif. Ednah Kurgat, the reigning NCAA individual athletes in action, with Ada’ora Chigbo and cross country champ, who is set to make her Shannon Fritz in the high jump; Katherine 4/19-20 Bryan Clay Invitational Azusa, Calif. outdoor debut in the 5000 alongside Weini Whiting and Fritz in the pole vault: Ayanniyi in 4/27-28 Bobcat Classic San Marcos, Texas Kelati and Alice Wright. the long jump; Allison Mady in the shot put and hammer throw; and Sara Reyes and Morgan Charlotte Prouse and Alondra Negrón Smith in the javelin. 5/3 Payton Jordan Invitational Stanford, Calif. Texidor are also eyeing improvement in the 5/5 Masked Rider Open Lubbock, Texas 3000 steeplechase, with Kieran Casey and Emily Martin racing the 1500. Kerr Earns National, MW 5/9-12 Mountain West Outdoor Clovis, Calif. For the men, Michael Wilson is racing the 800, Athlete of the Week Honors Track & Field Championships while Ian Crowe-Wright takes aim in the 1500. After his record-breaking run last Friday in the 5/24-26 NCAA Division I West Sacramento, Calif. Out in Lubbock, New Mexico’s sprinters will 1,500-meter run at the Bryan Clay Invitational, Preliminary Round look to continue posting superb marks. Carlos Josh Kerr earned a pair of superlative Salcido leads a pack of Lobos in the 200 with accolades on Tuesday, April 24. 6/6-9 NCAA Division I Outdoor Eugene, Ore. Jay Griffin IV, Isaac Gonzales and Mark Track & Field Championships Haywood also entered. Kerr was named NCAA Division I Men’s National Athlete of the Week by the U.S. Track & Field and Bold denotes a home meet Griffin is also racing the 100 with Alejandro Cross Country Coaches Association Tuesday Home indoor meets are held at the Albuquerque Convention Center Goldston, while Ben Parmoon and Bryan Home outdoor meets are held at the Great Friends of UNM Track Stadium morning and added Mountain West Men’s Track General Information Coaching Staff Communications Name of School ............................................ University of New Mexico Head Coach .............................................Joe Franklin (Purdue, 1991) Track & Field/Cross Country Contact ..............................Mike Mulcahy City/Zip ........................................................Albuquerque, N.M. 87106 Year at UNM ................................................................................11th Email/Phone ....................................................... 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Head Coach................Rodney Zuyderwyk (Washington State, 1993) Cell Phone ....................................................................(505) 379-2029 Enrollment ..................................................................................28,800 Year at UNM ..................................................................................9th Communications Office ................................................(505) 925-5520 Nickname .....................................................................................Lobos Assistant Coach ..............................James Butler (Wake Forest, 2003) UNM Athletics Website ...................................................GoLobos.com School Colors ............................................................Cherry and Silver Year at UNM ................................................................................. 3rd Twitter/Instagram ..................................................... @UNMLoboXCTF Conference ....................................................................Mountain West Assistant Coach ............................... Dr. Richard Ceronie (Miami (OH)) Affiliation ....................................................................................NCAA I Year at UNM ..................................................................................8th facilties President .............................................................Dr. Garnett S. Stokes Assistant Coach ................................................Jade Ellis (Duke, 2009) Indoor ................................................Albuquerque Convention Center Athletics Director ..............................................................Eddie Nuñez Year at UNM ................................................................................. 3rd Elevation ....................................................4,958 feet (1,511 meters) Athletic Dept. Phone ....................................................... 505-925-5501 Assistant Coach ........................Laura Bowerman (Florida State, 2008) Outdoor ...................................... Great Friends of UNM Track Stadium Ticket Office Phone ...................................................... 505-925-LOBO Year at UNM ................................................................................. 3rd Elevation ................................................... 5,085 feet (1,550 meters) 2018 NEW MEXICO TRACK & FIELD • 1 women’s roster NAME EVENTS CLASS HOMETOWN LAST SCHOOL Akeisha Ayanniyi Jumps SO/FR Santa Fe, N.M. Santa Fe HS Natasha Bernal Distance SO/JR Albuquerque, N.M. La Cueva HS Johanna Briscoe Distance FR/FR West Linn, Ore. West Linn HS Alex Buck Distance FR/FR Pendleton, Ind. Pendleton Heights HS Erynn Caldwell Sprints SR/SR Albuquerque, N.M. Volcano Vista HS Kieran Casey Distance SR/SR Indianapolis, Ind. University of Indianapolis Ada'ora Chigbo High Jump FR/FR Bristol, England Emily Crall Distance FR/FR Phoenix, Ariz. Desert Vista HS Anastasia Daliege Jumps FR/FR Roswell, N.M. Roswell HS Samantha Dicker Distance SO/SO Albuquerque, N.M. Eldorado HS Sophie Eckel Distance SO/SO Adelaide, Australia Immanuel College Mackenzie Everett Distance JR/SO Albuquerque, N.M. La Cueva HS Kaitlin Franklin Distance FR/FR Powder Springs, Ga. Kennesaw State Shannon Fritz High Jump SO/SO Phoenix, Ariz. Desert Vista HS Mariah Gordon Sprints FR/FR Centennial, Colo. Eaglecrest HS Juanita Johnson Distance FR/FR Albuquerque, N.M. Cibola HS Steffi Jones Sprints FR/FR Plano, Texas Plano HS Weini Kelati Distance FR/FR Leesburg, Va. Heritage HS Shalom Keller Sprints FR/FR Ruidoso, N.M. Ruidoso HS Kendall Kelly Distance JR/JR Albuquerque, N.M. Bosque School Ednah Kurgat Distance JR/JR Eldoret, Kenya Liberty University Sarah Laverty Distance JR/JR Edinburgh, Scotland Currie HS Elisabetta Mackin Sprints/Hurdles FR/FR Rio Rancho, N.M. Cleveland HS Allison Mady Throws SR/SR Albuquerque, N.M. La Cueva HS Emily Martin Distance