Busy Weekend Ahead for OSU Track and Field

March 25, 2015 | Cowboy Cross Country & Track

Meet Notes

The Basics
In the second weekend of the NCAA outdoor season, the Oklahoma State track and field teams send 49 athletes to three meets, including the Texas Relays, Bobcat Invitational and Arkansas Spring Invitational.

Follow the Meet
Results and a full recap from the meets will be posted onokstate.comfollowing the conclusion of each day's competition.
Live results for the Arkansas Spring Invitational will be provided byflashresults.com.
The Texas Relays results will be posted ontexassports.comand the Bobcat Invitational results will be ontxstatebobcats.com.

Broadcast Information
The Longhorn Network will broadcast the Nike Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays all four days.
The Arkansas Spring Invitational will be live streamed by the University of Arkansas and the Bobcat Invitational will not be broadcast.

Meet Format/Schedule
The Texas Relays begin Wednesday with the heptathlon and decathlon at 10 a.m.
Field events start Thursday at 12:30 p.m. with the hammer throws, while the running events begin at 4:30.
Friday and Saturday will contain a mix of collegiate and high school events and will wrap up at 9:35 p.m.
The final day of competition starts with the high school 3,200-meter runs and finishes with the 4X400 meter collegiate relays.
The Bobcat Invitational, hosted by Texas State, will run from Thursday afternoon to Saturday evening.
Running events will not begin until Friday at 4 p.m., but field events and the heptathlon and decathlon start at noon on Thursday with the pole vaults.
Arkansas' Spring Invitational will kick off Friday evening with just the hammer throws.
Saturday starts with the discus throws at 10 a.m., while the running events commence with the steeplechase at 1:30 p.m. The meet wraps up with the men's javelin at 6 p.m. and the 4X400 meter relays at 6:30 p.m.

Last Time Out
The Oklahoma State track and field program opened its outdoor season at the Tulsa Duels last weekend, with 22 top-five finishes and nine wins.
Indoor All-American Chase Ealey broke a school record in the women's shot put and won the event, throwing 16.73 meters. Ealey's throw gave her a third straight top-three finish at the Tulsa Duels and her second straight win at the meet.
Sharod Selph won the 100-meter final in 10.86 seconds and Arlando Brewer-Johnson finished fourth. Brewer-Johnson had another top-five finish in the 200-meter final, while fellow Cowboy Tyler Jackson won the race in 22.03.
The sprinting success continued in the 4X100 meter relay where Jackson, Selph, Johnson and Big 12 Champion Brandon Singleton ran a 41.57 to claim another victory for OSU.
Bailey Johnson and Sarah Robinson finished 1-2, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles, and Robinson along with Ambra Wesley, Danielle Coleman and Britney Presley won the 4X400 meter relay in 3:56.69, six seconds faster than second place Langston.
In the women's discus, Ieva Zarankaite took first place with a mark of 50.58 meters, and Viktoriia Sadokhina won the triple jump with a mark of 12.35 meters.
The women's 3,000-meter final had Janelle Martinez, Natalie Baker and Emily Helms finish 4-5-6, respectively.
Overall, the OSU men's team recorded 14 top-10 finishes and the women's team had 18.

A Look Back
On this weekend last year, the OSU track and field program went to the 2014 Texas Relays and the Arkansas Spring Invitational.
Ieva Zarankaite took third in the discus at the Texas Relays, with a launch of 52.69m/172-10, which moved her into the No. 2 spot on OSU's all-time list.
In the men's 100-meter dash, John Teeters took 13th place, finishing in 10:54. Entering the weekend, Teeters' time was No. 20 in the NCAA, and the best mark in the Big 12.
In the men's shot put, Itamar Levi finished in 11th place with a mark of 16.66m/54-8.
In the women's shot put, Chase Ealey had a toss of 14.95m/49-0¾ to finish in ninth.
In Fayetteville, Ark., Monika Juodeskaite placed second in the 1,500 meters to lead the OSU track & field teams at the Arkansas Spring Invitational last year.
Juodeskaite, whose specialty is the longer distance races, showed she could still compete in the middle distance events as well, running a 4:32.25 to take second in the race.
On the men's side, Tyler Payton led the way for the Cowboys, taking second overall in the 800 meters, with a time of 1:51.93. Ryan Wheatley won section two of the event, finishing in 1:53.55.

Cowboys, Cowgirls Debut in Top-15
The United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's preseason outdoor top-25 was released Tuesday with both the Cowgirls and Cowboys making history by debuting together in the top-25 for the first time.
Fresh off a third consecutive top-15 finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships, the Cowboys came in at No. 12 in the preseason rankings. The nod gives OSU it's highest outdoor preseason ranking ever and its first preseason top-25 spot since it was No. 22 in 2013.
Success on the national stage in recent years has the OSU men's team slotted as the third-highest ranked Big 12 team behind No. 5 Texas and 10th-ranked Texas Tech.
The Cowgirls joined the Cowboys and came in at 14 in the women's rankings, claiming their first preseason top-25 spot and their highest ranking in the outdoor season ever.
The rankings puts OSU in elite company, making the track and field program one of three big 12 programs to have a men's and women's team in the top-15.

Ealey No. 1 in School History
Chase Ealey went into the Tulsa Duels with the second-best mark in the women's shot put in school history. On March 21, Ealey threw an incredible 16.73m/54-10.75 to break the decade-old outdoor school record. Ealey's performance gave her the top spot in three events - the outdoor and indoor shot put and the javelin.
Earlier in the indoor season, Ealey also set the record for the indoor shot put and qualified for nationals where she received second-team All-America honors.
Ealey's mark is currently the best in the Big 12 and in the NCAA this season.