SAN ANTONIO – It’s the final weekend of the outdoor regular season for the UTSA track and field teams, which travel back to College Station, Texas, for the second time this outdoor season to take on the Texas A&M Alumni Muster at E.B. Cushing Stadium – the site of the NCAA West First Round during the final days of May. Next on the schedule for UTSA is the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships.
The Roadrunners will travel a 29-athlete squad to College Station for the Saturday, May 3, single-day competition at E.B. Cushing Stadium. The Aggies are also concluding their regular season before hosting the NCAA First Round in late May. The Roadrunners will be up against athletes from a 14-team field that includes Baylor, Houston Christian, Incarnate Ward, Lamar, Louisville, McNeese State, Missouri, North Texas, Rice, Stephen F. Austin, Texas A&M, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Sam Houston and UT Rio Grande Valley.
Heading into the week, the Roadrunner women rank 53rd nationally, eighth in the Region and fifth in the American Athletic Conference as a team. Leading that group are the women’s long jump event squad, holding up the No. 2 spot in the nation for all five weeks of rankings this season. Pacing the UTSA women among national rankings with the highest performance and the most appearances in the national top 50 is Norwegian redshirt freshman Mia Lien, who ranks fifth in the heptathlon at 5,741 points, 11th in the high jump at a school-record 1.83m (6-0) and 44th in the long jump at 6.30m (20-8). Topping the long jumpers, sophomore Ida Breigan is 27th with a season measurement of 6.37m (20-10.75), while freshman Selma Ims (400m hurdles, 57.40) and senior Rachela Pace (triple jump, 13.05m (42-9.75) are both 25th. Sophomore Edlin Laur rounds out the top 50 group with a 39th-ranked high jump of 1.78m (5-10). On the men’s side, senior Hugo Menin sits at eighth in the 400m hurdles at 49.77 seconds.
The meet opens for the Roadrunners on the men’s hammer throw at approximately 11 a.m. on Saturday, followed by the first jump for UTSA at 11:30 on the women’s long jump. The initial running event for the Roadrunners will be the 100m hurdles at 3:18, followed directly by the men’s 110m hurdles. UTSA’s final event of the day is the 3,000m steeplechase at 6:30 p.m.
Texas A&M Athletics will provide live results through Flash Results throughout the meet. There will be no live streaming and meet info from TAMU can be found here.
The next time the Roadrunners head out of San Antonio they will be in the hunt for conference championships, heading to Charlotte, North Carolina and Irwin Belk track for the American Athletic Conference Championships, May 15-17.
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