University of Georgia 2018 OUTdoor Track & Field georgiadogs.com // Twitter/Instagram: @UGATrack // Snapchat: ugatrack >>>>>>>>>>>>2018 NCAA Indoor women's champions>>>>>>>>>>>> 2018 Outdoor Schedule Bulldogs Competing At NCAA Outdoor Finals Name Event/Top ‘17 Mark Prelims Finish Date Event (Location) Results WOMEN March 16-17 Yellow Jacket Invitational (Atlanta, Ga.) NTS Keturah Orji Triple Jump/$47-11.75 1st March 28-31 Texas Relays (Austin, Texas) NTS Lynna Irby 400m/^50.44 1st Bobcat Invitational (San Marcos, Texas) NTS Tara Davis Long Jump/*21-9 1st Keturah Orji Long Jump/^22-4.25 2nd April 6-7 Spec Towns Invitational (Athens, Ga.) NTS Lynna Irby 200m/*22.25 3rd Bulldog Decathlon/Heptathlon Jessica Drop 5000m/^15:38.57 3rd April 19-21 Mt. SAC Relays (Torrance, Calif.) NTS Kate Hall Long Jump/21-9 4th Beach Invitational (Long Beach, Calif.) NTS Tara Davis 100m Hurdles/*13.04 5th May 5 Torrin Lawrence Memorial (Athens, Ga.) NTS !Louisa Grauvogel Heptathlon/5,887 7th Samantha Drop 10,000m/*33:28.89 9th May 11-13 SEC Championships (Knoxville, Tenn.) M-5 (71); W-8 (61) Tairyn Montgomery Javelin/*167-11 9th May 24-26 NCAA East Prelims (Tampa, Fla.) NTS Tatiana Gusin High Jump/6-2 T-10th June 6-9 NCAA Championships (Eugene, Ore.) Marie-Therese Obst Javelin/*158-6 12th MEN Georgia Aims To Keep Momentum Going At NCAA Outdoors Denzel Comenentia Hammer Throw/*250-3 1st The top-ranked Georgia women and the third-ranked Bulldog men traveled Denzel Comenentia Shot Put/*68-6 2nd to Portland, Ore., on Sunday and then made the drive to Eugene for the coming NCAA Keenon Laine High Jump/*7-5 2nd Outdoor Championships. The University of Oregon, who also hosted the 2013-17 Kendal Williams 100m/^9.99 3rd national meets, will welcome the country’s best on Wednesday, June 6 through Sat- !Johannes Erm Decathlon/*8,020 pts. 4th urday, June 9. !Karl Saluri Decathlon/7,934 pts. 5th Cejhae Green 100m/10.14 6th Seventeen Bulldogs and the men’s 4x100-meter relay team and its alter- Kendal Williams 200m/20.15 6th nates will represent at Nationals. For the women, seniors Tatiana Gusin, Keturah Antonios Merlos High Jump/*7-1 7th Orji, sophomores Kate Hall, Jessica Drop, Samantha Drop, Tairyn Montgom- 4x100m Relay 39.33 8th ery, Marie-Therese Obst and Louisa Grauvogel and freshmen Tara Davis Nicholls, Greene, Nance, Williams and Lynna Irby will try for the team’s fifth top-five performance in a row. On the (alternates: Raines, Jenkins) men’s side, seniors Cejhae Greene, Karl Saluri, juniors Kendal Williams, Kee- *personal best; !Qualified for the meet automatically since non Laine, Denzel Comenentia, Raytez Jenkins, Jonathan Raines, Michael ranked nationally in the combined events top 24 (their Nicholls and freshmen Johannes Erm, Antonios Merlos and Justes Nance will ranking signifies their national ranking going into Prelims) be in search of the team’s third top-10 finish since 1996 and second straight. $collegiate record; ^school record Decathletes Saluri and Erm along with heptathlete Grauvogel punched their ticket before Prelims in the combined events. Erm is situated fourth on the na- mer at 5 p.m. on day one. The men’s 4x100m semifinal at 7:32 tional list after tallying 8,020 points in the dec at the Bulldog Decathlon/Heptathlon p.m. on the first day will be the Bulldogs’ opening event on the and Saluri is fifth with a 7,934 season high scored at the SEC meet. Grauvogel is track. seventh in the hep with 5,887 points scored at the home meet. Results and recaps from the NCAA meet will be Saluri and Erm will start the action in the dec 100m at 3:30 p.m. ET on found at georgiadogs.com. News and updates are always Wednesday. Comenentia will begin the open events for Georgia in the men’s ham- located on Twitter/Instagram at @UGATrack. 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. NCAA Ind., 2017 NCAA Out..............1st (61), 2nd (62.2) Head Coach.......................Petros Kyprianou (Jumps, Multis) 2018 M. NCAA Ind., 2017 NCAA Out...............3rd (32), 6th (22.5) University of Georgia 2018 OUTdoor Track & Field Meet Schedule 9:14 pm 200m Semis (Irby) Wednesday, June 6 (All Men’s Events) 9:38 pm 10,000m Final (S. Drop) DECATHLON - DAY ONE 10:18 pm 4x400m Semis 3:30 pm ET 100m (Erm, Saluri) 4:10 pm Long Jump (Erm, Saluri) Friday, June 9 (All Men’s Open Events) 5:25 pm Shot Put( Erm, Saluri) HEPTATHLON - DAY ONE 6:40 pm High Jump (Erm, Saluri) 3:30 pm 100m Hurdles (Grauvogel) 9:56 pm 400m (Erm, Saluri) 4:30 pm High Jump (Grauvogel) FIELD EVENTS 6:30 pm Shot Put (Grauvogel) 5:00 pm Hammer (Comenentia) 10:13 pm 200m (Grauvogel) 8:00 pm Pole Vault FIELD EVENTS 8:45 pm Javelin 8:00 pm High Jump (Merlos, Laine) 9:00 pm Long Jump 8:05 pm Discus 9:40 pm Shot Put (Comenentia) 8:40 pm Triple Jump RUNNING EVENTS RUNNING EVENTS 7:32 pm 4x100m Semifinal 8:32 pm 4x100m Final (Nance, Greene, Jenkins, Williams, Raines, Nicholls) (Nance, Greene, Jenkins, Williams, Raines Nicholls) 7:46 pm 1500m Semifinal 8:42 pm 1500m Final 8:02 pm 3000m Steeplechase Semis 8:54 pm 3000m Steeplechase Final 8:32 pm 110m Hurdles Semis 9:12 pm 110m Hurdles Final 8:46 pm 100m Semis (Williams, Greene) 9:22 pm 100m Final (Williams, Greene) 9:00 pm 400m Semis 9:32 pm 400m Final 9:14 pm 800m Semis 9:44 pm 800m Final 9:30 pm 400m Hurdles Semis 9:57 pm 400m Hurdles Final 9:44 pm 200m Semis (Williams) 10:07 pm 200m Final (Williams) 10:08 pm 10,000m Final 10:25 pm 5,000m Final 10:48 pm 4x400m Semis 10:51 pm 4x400m Final Thursday, June 8 (All Women’s Open Events) Saturday, June 10 (All Women’s Events) DECATHLON - DAY TWO HEPTATHLON - DAY TWO 1:00 pm 110m Hurdles (Erm, Saluri) 2:30 pm Long Jump (Grauvogel) 1:50 pm Discus (Erm, Saluri) 3:45 pm Javelin (Grauvogel) 3:00 pm Pole Vault (Erm, Saluri) 8:13 pm 800m (Grauvogel) 5:30 pm Javelin (Erm, Saluri) FIELD EVENTS 9:26 pm 1500m (Erm, Saluri) 6:00 pm High Jump (Gusin) FIELD EVENTS 6:05 pm Discus 4:30 pm Hammer Throw 6:40 pm Triple Jump (Orji) 7:30 pm Pole Vault RUNNING EVENTS 8:15 pm Javelin (Montgomery, Obst) 6:32 pm 4x100m Final 8:30 pm Long Jump (Hall, Orji, Davis) 6:41 pm 1500m Final 9:10 pm Shot Put 6:54 pm 3000m Steeplechase Final RUNNING EVENTS 7:12 pm 100m Hurdles Final (Davis) 7:02 pm 4x100m Semifinal 7:22 pm 100m Final 7:16 pm 1500m Semifinal 7:32 pm 400m Final (Irby) 7:32 pm 3000m Steeplechase Semis 7:44 pm 800m Final 8:02 pm 100m Hurdles Semis (Davis) 7:57 pm 400m Hurdles Final 8:16 pm 100m Semis 8:07 pm 200m Final (Irby) 8:30 pm 400m Semis (Irby) 8:25 pm 5,000m Final (J. Drop) 8:44 pm 800m Semis 8:51 pm 4x400m Final 9:00 pm 400m Hurdles Semis University of Georgia 2018 OUTdoor Track & Field Head Coach Petros Kyprianou Drives Dogs Into Year Three onships) Petros Kyprianou was hired away from Boise State in 2008, landed in Athens as l 13 top-6 NCAA team finishes an assistant and after being named UGA Associate Head Coach in 2014, the Cyprus native took the reins as the UGA program’s 10th head coach in history in June 2015. During his time Bulldogs Boast Academic Success at Georgia, Kyprianou has helped transform the Bulldogs, specifically its combined events and Not only did the Lady Bulldogs win the jumps, into a national power year in and year out. 2018 NCAA indoor title and now hold a No. 3 ranking The Bulldogs have combined for 20 top-20 team finishes at the NCAA Champion- alongside with the Bulldog men at No. 4, but Georgia ships and 14 top-10 finishes since the 2009 season. During that span, the student-athletes he has also been showing up in the classroom. coaches have captured 24 NCAA individual titles and 41 SEC individual crowns. Kyprianou’s l The Lady Bulldogs were named the 2017 crew has been particularly potent over the last four and a half years (2014-18). USTFCCCA Division I Indoor & Outdoor Scholar Teams of the Year. Here is a look at the average national finishes for the country’s top women’s teams since 2014: l Georgia’s most decorated current team member NCAA INDOORS (2014-18) on the track, senior Keturah Orji, graduated on May Oregon - 2; GEORGIA - 2.4; Arkansas - 3.2 4 with a 3.97 GPA in Financial Planning and is a: NCAA OUTDOORS *Bulldog T&F’s 3rd NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Oregon - 1.75; GEORGIA 3.75; Arkansas - 5 recipient (begins Master’s in Fall 2018) * Two-time CoSIDA First Team Academic Here is a look at the average national finishes for the top women’s teams since 2013: All-American; SEC Boyd-McWhorter Recipient NCAA INDOORS (2013-18) * Three-time USTFCCCA National Women’s Scholar Oregon - 1.8; Arkansas - 3.3; GEORGIA - 3.7 Athlete of the Year NCAA OUTDOORS * 2016 and 2018 (2x) SEC Scholar Athlete of the Year Oregon - 2; Texas A&M - 4.8; GEORGIA - 5.2 l The Georgia women’s cross country team (3.49) and the Bulldog men’s cross team (3.37) led the way Here is what the numbers look like the last five years for Kyprianou’s crew (2013-18): among all of UGA’s sports for 2017.