Rowers earn third straight Big 12 title
Decathlete Wasik’s win sparks Horns in league track meet.
The Texas rowing team won all five grand finals to claim its third straight Big 12 championship Sunday in Oak Ridge, Tenn. It’s the rowing team’s seventh conference title overall.
The Longhorns scored 137 points to claim the conference title and took first place in the NCAA automatic-qualifier standings with 48 points.
Texas will compete in the NCAA Championships regatta May 26-28 in West Windsor, N.J. The Longhorns finished eighth in last year’s championships.
Track and field: Steele Wasik set a facility record on his way to winning the title in the decathlon at the Big 12 Championship in Lawrence, Kan., Saturday.
Wasik scored 7,715 points to set the record for Rock Chalk Park and notched the ninthbest performance in school history. He took first place in the 110-meter hurdles, the discus and the javelin on the second day of competition. His outdoor title goes with the one he won for the indoor championships and is the sixth for Texas.
Overall the men’s team was leading the Big 12 Championships with 50.50 points, just ahead of Texas Tech’s 49 points.
The Texas women were in seventh with 20.50 points, trailing first-place Kansas which has 67 points.
The Longhorns advanced 31 runners to Sunday’s finals, which ended too late for this edition. There was plenty of opportunity for Texas to score points in Sunday’s finals.
Alex Rogers qualified No. 1 for the men’s 1,500 meters. Sandie Raines and Destiny Collins also qualified for the 1,500 on the women’s side.
Rushelle Burton, Ariel Jones, Mariam Abdul-Rashid and Ashley Miller qualified for the 100-meter hurdles final. Burton qualified at the top of the field with Jones close behind.
Spencer Dunkerley-Offor, John Burt and Wasik qualified for the 110 hurdles final.
Chrisann Gordon had the best time in advancing to the 400 finals. Zola Golden qualified second while Serenity Douglas advanced with the eighth-best time. Carlton Anumnu and Aldrich Bailey Jr. also qualified in the event for the men.
Teahna Daniels qualified second in the 100-meter event. In the men’s competition, Senoj-Jay Givans, Charles Anumnu and Chris Ntreh advanced to the final.
Jones and Abdul-Rashid both advanced to the final of the 400 hurdles. On the men’s side, Kirema Macharia and Byron Robinson also qualified for the final.
Golden and Daniels ran in the 200 finals Sunday as well. The men sent four runners to the 200 final as Bailey Jr., Charles Anumnu, Givans and Ntreh all qualified.