SAN ANTONIO — The UTSA track & field teams will make the drive east along I-10 on Friday, Jan. 27, to compete in the Houston Invitational at Yeoman Fieldhouse.
The meet will get underway at 11 a.m. with the field events followed by running events beginning at 3:30 p.m.
UTSA will line up against athletes from Houston, Houston Christian, Lamar, Louisiana, Prairie View A&M, Rice, Sam Houston, Southern, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Texas Southern, Texas State, ULM and UIW.
This will mark the third week in a row that the Roadrunners have appeared in a meet hosted by Cougars, as they opened the indoor campaign on Jan. 13 at the Leonard Hilton Memorial Invitational and also visited the Bayou City last Friday for the Robert Platt Invitational.
The Roadrunners are coming off a busy weekend that saw them combine for 14 podium finishes at three different meets in Houston, Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Flagstaff, Arizona.
Jemuel Miller won the men's triple jump for the second straight week last Saturday at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Invitational at the Albuquerque Convention Center, as the sophomore All-American skipped to a Conference USA-leading distance of 15.73 meters (51-7.25) to remain undefeated in his specialty event this season.
Meanwhile at the Lumberjack Team Challenge in Flagstaff, Jack Turner and Joel McFarlane finished 1-2 in the men's long jump. Turner, a four-time C-USA champion in the multi-events, leaped 7.34 meters (24-1) for gold and McFarlane earned the silver medal with a mark of 7.25m (23-9.5).
Fellow All-American Ingeborg Gruenwald and Oreoluwa Adamson also collected a pair of medals in the horizontal jumps for the women in Albuquerque. Gruenwald leaped to a season-best distance of 6.18m (20-3.5) to secure silver, while Adamson grabbed bronze in the triple jump with a career best 12.65m (41-6) measurement.
All-American and reigning conference champion Bashiru Abdullahi locked up third place in the 60-meter hurdles after cruising to a 7.82 clocking, just behind a pair of hurdlers from USC.
Mike Roth won the unseeded 200m with a 21.26 clocking, while Noah Rhodes and Logan Masters finished 2-3 in the unseeded 400m with times of 49.18 and 49.34, respectively.
Lauren Roy crossed first in the women's unseeded 200m with a 24.16 and Ibiso David-West crossed second in the unseeded 400m in 57.81.
At the Robert Platt Invitational last Friday, Michael Campbell finished second in the men's shot put with a mark of 16.53m (54-2.75), while Amaya King and Abby Balli claimed third place in the shot put (14.55m/47-9) and mile (5:03.01), respectively.
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