UH has 11 qualify for NCAA Outdoor Championships
The University of Houston men’s track and field program will send 11 individual qualifiers and one relay team to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Shaun Maswanganyi qualified in the 100 meters with a wind-legal time of 10.04 seconds and posted the top time in the 200 meters (20.19) at the West Region Prelims that concluded Saturday at Texas A&M’s E.B. Cushing Stadium.
Travis Collins advanced in two events (100 and 200), while the Cougars will also send Jordan Booker and Christian Hamberlin in the 200, Benjamin Okafor in the long jump, Dayo Akindele in the 110 hurdles, Quivelle Jordan in the 400 hurdles and Antonio Ruiz and Christyan Sampy in the pole vault.
The 4x100 relay of Maswanganyi, Collins, Booker and Hamberlin posted the second-fastest time (39.02) in the field. The women’s 4x400 also advanced.
On the women’s side, UH’s Brianne Bethel advanced in the 100 and 200, along with Camille Rutherford (100), Samiyah Samuels (long jump), Mikaila Martin (hammer throw) and the 4X100 relay.
Rice will send four individuals to the NCAA Championships, led by Grace Forbes, who won the 10,000 meters to add to her impressive spring that already includes trips to indoor and cross-country nationals. Michelle Folkum (triple jump) and Tara Simpson-Sullivan (hammer throw) advanced, along with James McNaney in the men’s javelin.
Texas Southern’s Kenneth Pree (long jump) and Prairie View A&M’s Ja’Sha Sloan (high jump) also punched tickets to the NCAA Championships, which will be held June 9-12 in Eugene, Ore.
Sam Houston’s 4x100 men’s relay team advanced.
Texas Tech qualified two apiece for the NCAA championships in the 100 meters and the 200 meters, shortly after the same personnel had qualified in the 400meter relay.
The Tech men making that trip will be Courtney Lindsey and Jacolby Shelton in the 100, Terrence Jones and Lindsey in the 200 and the sprint relay of Lindsey, Shelton, Ashton O’Conner and Jones.
They’ll join Safin Wills and Jalen Seals, who qualified Friday in the triple jump.
The sprint relay ran a time of 39.07 seconds. Lindsey ran wind-legal times of 10.15 in the 100 and 20.24 in the 200. Shelton made it out in the 100, running a 10.21 and Jones advanced in the 200 with a wind-legal 20.36.
Lindseyand Shelton, a sophomore from Pearland
Dawson, both had their NCAA postseasons during the indoor schedule ruined by hamstring injures.
The Lady Raiders had 10 women qualified for Eugene in six events.
Texas finished the meet with 24 total qualifiers (12 men/12 women).
The men’s 4x100-meter relay team of Daniel Garland, Steffin McCarter, Caleb Hulbin and Micaiah Harris clocked a 39.17 to punch the Longhorns’ first ticket of the day to Eugene.
Jonathan Jones clocked a 45.45 in the 400 meters to qualify. Yusuf Bizimana and Crayton Carrozza qualified as top-three finishers in their heatin the 800. Charles Brockman III booked another ticket for Texas in the 400-meter hurdles by clocking a 49.69 to finish fifth in the field overall. The last individual Longhorn to earn an NCAA berth on the men’s side was Micaiah Harris in the 200 meters.
On the women’s side, Texas added eight entries, highlighted by three in the women’s 200-meter dash. The Longhorns got NCAAqualifying performances from Rhasidat Adeleke (23.03), Kevona Davis (22.87) and Kynnedy Flannel (22.67) in that event.