University of Georgia 2018 INdoor Track & Field georgiadogs.com // Twitter/Instagram: @UGATrack // Snapchat: ugatrack 2018 Indoor Schedule Coverage of 2018 SEC Indoor Championships Date Event (Location) Results The broadcast talent includes Dwight Stones (play-by-play), January 6 Orange & Purple Classic (Clemson, SC) NTS Larry Rawson and Jill Montgomery (analysts) and John January 19-20 Clemson Invitational (Clemson, SC) NTS Anderson (sideline reporter). January 26-27 Razorback Invitational (Fayetteville, ARK) NTS Broadcast info for SEC Indoor Championships: February 9-10 Tiger Paw Invitational (Clemson, SC) NTS Saturday (3:55 p.m.ET - 8:15 p.m.) - SECN+ February 9-10 Iowa State Classic (Ames, Iowa) NTS LINK: http://gado.gs/8i1 February 24-25 SEC Championships (College Station, Texas) Sunday (6 p.m. - 10 p.m.) - SECN March 10-11 NCAA Championships (College Station, Texas) Monday (10 a.m.) - SECN (re-air) Highly-Ranked Bulldogs Head To SECs Currently, there are 24 Georgia student-athletes (12 The fourth-ranked Georgia women and fifth-ranked Bulldog men traveled men, 12 women) who are ranked in the SEC’s top eight spots, to College Station, Texas, on Thursday in preparation for the Southeastern which scores at the conference and national meets. Junior Conference Indoor Championships at Texas A&M’s Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium Keenon Laine (high jump) and Comenentia (shot put) have on Saturday and Sunday. the league’s top marks coming into the meet while Orji (triple Sophomore Louisa Grauvogel will start the meet in the pentathlon on jump) and junior Kate Hall (long jump) are also No. 1 on the Saturday at 12 p.m. ET and senior Karl Saluri and freshman Johannes Erm will SEC performance lists headed into the weekend. Orji and Hall begin the first event of the heptathlon minutes after the pentathlon start at 12:15 are also the national leaders in their events. p.m. The open events begin on Saturday at 4 p.m. with junior Denzel Comenentia For the Lady Bulldogs, Tara Davis, Micaiah Rans- (weight), senior Emily Savage (pole vault) and junior Michael Nicholls (60-meter by, Aliyah Johnson, Fagan, Savage, Grauvogel, Hall, hurdle prelims) lining up for the Bulldogs. Orji, Amber Tanner, Lynna Irby, Anna Machovec, Halle Ranked no lower than fourth indoors nationally in every poll since 2015, McClintock, Jessica Drop, Hailey Branch, Grace Tavani the Lady Bulldogs are aiming to improve on their fourth-place SEC indoor finish in and Addy Lippitt traveled for SECs. 2017 as they had three SEC individual champions (Keturah Orji - triple jump, Mady On the men’s side, Carbin, Laine, Comenentia, Fagan - high jump, Kendell Williams - pentathlon). Rocketing to second in an early Michael Hans, Ryne Bevan, Nicholls, Antonios Merlos, 2018 season USTFCCCA national ranking, which is the top indoor ranking in UGA Cejhae Greene, Kendal Williams, Jon Moses, Henry history, the Georgia men finished sixth at SECs last year with Darius Carbin (high Dwyer, Saluri, Erm, Austin Sprague, Eric Westog, Bryan jump), Comenentia (shot put) and Devon Williams (heptathlon) winning crowns. Kamau and Jeramey Hampton will line up for Georgia. This marks the start of the postseason for Georgia. The Bulldogs have Results and recaps from the SEC Indoor Champion- sent individuals to six regular season meets, including three at Clemson. Following ships will be found at georgiadogs.com. News and updates this weekend, the Bulldogs will recover and train through next weekend before the from Georgia’s track and field and cross country teams are al- NCAA Indoor Championships arrive back in College Station on March 9-10. ways located on Twitter/Instagram at @UGATrack. “Finally, we have arrived at the postseason, which is the true competitors’ favorite part of the season,” said third-year head coach Petros Kyprianou. “Every- DID YOU KNOW? Keturah Orji was named the 2018 SEC thing we have done so far is to prepare us for these next two championships. Even Indoor Women’s Scholar-Athlete of theYear this week after al- though our team is geared more towards the NCAA scoring system, we always try to ready earning the honor during the 2016 outdoor season. Orji get as many individual champions as we can at SECs.” boasts a 3.96 GPA in Financial Planning. Quick Facts Assist. Coaches....Assoc. Head Coach Don Babbitt (Throws) School..................................................University of Georgia ........Assoc. Head Coach Ken Harnden (M. Sprints, Hurdles) Location...............................................................Athens, Ga. ......................................................Patrick Cunniff (Distance) Founded .........................................................................1785 .......Recruiting Coord. Althea Thomas (W. 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) 2017 W. SEC Ind. / SEC Out.......................4th (64) / 4th (77) Head Coach.......................Petros Kyprianou (Jumps, Multis) 2017 M. SEC Ind. / SEC Out.......................6th (67) / 5th (75) University of Georgia 2018 indoor Track & Field Schedule SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24 HEPTATHLON - DAY TWO PENTATHLON 3:30 pmET 60m Hurdles 12:00 pm ET 60m Hurdles 4:30 pm Pole Vault 12:45 pm High Jump 7:36 pm 1000m 3:00 pm Shot Put FIELD EVENTS 4:15 pm Long Jump 6:00 pm Women’s Weight Throw 6:15 pm 800m 6:00 pm Men’s Pole Vault HEPTATHLON - DAY ONE 6:00 pm Men’s Triple Jump 12:15 pm 60m 6:00 pm Women’s Triple Jump 1:00 pm Long Jump 6:00 pm Women’s High Jump 2:15 pm Shot Put 6:00 pm Men’s Shot Put 3:45 pm High Jump RUNNING EVENTS (Finals) FIELD EVENTS 6:01 pm Men’s 60m Hurdles 4:00 pm Men’s Weight Throw 6:06 pm Women’s 60m Hurdles 4:00 pm Women’s Pole Vault 6:11 pm Men’s 60m 4:30 pm Men’s Long Jump 6:14 pm Women’s 60m 4:30 pm Women’s Long Jump 6:20 pm Men’s Mile 4:30 pm Men’s High Jump 6:29 pm Women’s Mile 4:30 pm Women’s Shot Put 6:39 pm Men’s 400m RUNNING EVENTS (Prelims) 6:49 pm Women’s 400m 4:00 pm Men’s 60m Hurdles 7:00 pm Men’s 5000m 4:10 pm Women’s 60m Hurdles 7:36 pm Men’s 1000m (Heptathlon) 4:20 pm Men’s 60m 7:42 pm Men’s 800m 4:35 pm Women’s 60m 7:48 pm Women’s 800m 4:50 pm Men’s Mile 7:54 pm Men’s 200m 5:05 pm Women’s Mile 8:03 pm Women’s 200m 5:20 pm Men’s 400m 8:12 pm Women’s 5000m 5:45 pm Women’s 400m 8:58 pm Men’s DMR 6:15 pm Women’s 800 (Pentathlon) 9:12 pm Women’s DMR 6:20 pm Men’s 800m 9:27 pm Men’s 4x400m Relay 6:35 pm Women’s 800m 9:42 pm Women’s 4x400m Relay 6:50 pm Men’s 200m Men’s Trophy/Women’s Trophy 7:15 pm Women’s 200m Presentation 7:45 pm Men’s 3000m (FINAL) 8:10 pm Women’s 3000m (FINAL) University of Georgia 2018 INdoor Track & Field Head Coach Petros Kyprianou Drives Dogs Into Year Three Bulldogs Boast Academic Success Petros Kyprianou was hired away from Boise State, landed in Athens as an as- Not only do the Bulldogs sport No. 4 and sistant in 2008 and after being named UGA Associate Head Coach in 2014, the Cyprus native No. 5 national rankings in competition this indoor took the reins as the UGA program’s 10th head coach in history in June 2015. During his time season, but Georgia’s track and field and cross coun- at Georgia, Kyprianou has helped transform the Bulldogs, specifically its combined events and try teams have also been performing exceptionally jumps, into a national power year in and year out. well in the classroom. The Bulldogs have combined for 18 top-20 team finishes at the NCAA Championships l The Lady Bulldogs were named the 2017 and 12 top-10 finishes since the 2009 season. During that span, the student-athletes he coach- USTFCCCA Division I Indoor & Outdoor Scholar es have captured 22 NCAA individual titles and 32 SEC individual crowns. Kyprianou’s crew has Teams of the Year. been particularly potent over the last four years (2014-17). l Georgia’s most decorated current team member on the track, senior Keturah Orji, has a 3.96 GPA Here is a look at the average national finishes for the country’s top women’s teams since 2014: in Financial Planning and is a two-time CoSIDA First NCAA INDOORS (2014-17) Team Academic All-American, the 2015 USTFCCCA Oregon - 1.25; GEORGIA - 2.75; Arkansas - 3.5 National Women’s Outdoor Scholar Athlete of the NCAA OUTDOORS Year and the 2016 and 2018 SEC Scholar Athlete of Oregon - 1.75; GEORGIA 3.75; Arkansas - 5 the Year. l With the Bulldog student-athletes as a whole Here is a look at the average national finishes for the top women’s teams since 2013: posting their top fall GPA (3.11) ever in 2017, the NCAA INDOORS (2013-17) Georgia women’s cross country team (3.49) and the Oregon - 1.2; Arkansas - 3.6; GEORGIA - 4.2 Bulldog men’s cross team (3.37) led the way among NCAA OUTDOORS all of UGA’s sports. Oregon - 2; Texas A&M - 4.8; GEORGIA - 5.2 KO Chasing History Here is what the numbers look like the last five years for Kyprianou’s crew (2013-17): A Mount Olive, N.J., native, Keturah Orji l 22 NCAA individual titles came to the University of Georgia during the fall of l 61 First Team All-America certificates 2014 and has since captured five NCAA triple jump l 29 SEC individual titles titles, 11 First Team All-America certificates and six SEC crowns.