Track and Field Travels to Last Regular Season Meets

February 18, 2016 | Cowboy Cross Country & Track, Cowgirl Cross Country & Track

Meet Notes

THE BASICS
    With one week remaining in the regular season, the OSU track and field teams head to Manhattan, Kansas, and South Bend, Indiana, looking to secure spots in the NCAA Indoor Championships before the conference Championships at the end of the month.

FOLLOW THE MEET
    For live results of the Steve Miller Open, visit kstatesports.com and for the Alex Wilson Invitational, go to und.com.
    Results and a full recap of Oklahoma State's results will be available online at okstate.com following the meets.

BROADCAST
    Neither meet for this upcoming weekend will be broadcast on television.

MEET FORMAT/SCHEDULE (ALL TIMES CT)
    Both meets are one day meets with the Steve Miller Open leading off the weekend Friday night.
    The one-day meet starts at 4 p.m. with the women's long jump. The first running event begins at 6 p.m. and the track will be in use until the meet ends after the women's and men's 4X400-meter relays are wrapped up.
    As for the meet in South Bend, Indiana, the events begin at 9 a.m. Saturday and will run throughout the day.

LAST TIME OUT
    Big 12 Cross Country Newcomer of the Year Josh Thompson topped his personal best by more than 12 seconds in Seattle.
    Although he finished fourth overall in a competitive final, Thompson's 3:58.33 from the race is the second- fastest mile in the Big 12 this season. Having transferred from Central Arizona, Thompson's impressive mark has vaulted him into the OSU all-time list at No. 5 in just his first season as a Cowboy.
    Despite already qualifying for the Indoor Championships in the mile, 800-meter run and as a member of the distance medley relay team, the two-time Indoor All-American Kaela Edwards was at it again, this time in the 3,000-meter run at the Husky Classic.
    Edwards finished fourth among collegiate athletes in 9:06.27. With her time, the Cowgirl All-American owns the Big 12 lead in three events this season with only two weeks to go until the Big 12 Indoor Championships.
    Chase Ealey threw two personal bests in the shot put and weight throw. In the shot, she broke her own school record by two feet with a throw of 17.63m/57-10.25 , which is the best in the conference this season and the third best in the NCAA.
    In the weight throw, Ealey launched a 19.36m/63-6.25 to finish fourth at the Tyson Invitational.
    At the Don Kirby Elite in Albuquerque, New Mexico, John Teeters advanced to the 60-meter semifinal with the top-time of 6.56 in the preliminary round, but did not run in the semifinal.
    Freshman Malik Givens topped his personal best, once again, at the Tyson Invitational with a 6.80 time in the 60-meter preliminary round. Givens won heat two in a photo finish to grab an automatic qualifying spot into the next round of the hotly contested event that featured four sprinters with top-10 times this season. Givens came up just short of a trip to the final with a 6.82.

A LOOK BACK
    The Oklahoma State women's track and field team wrapped up its indoor regular season at the 2015 Alex Wilson Invitational, highlighted by the third fastest distance medley relay time in school history.
    Jennifer Celis, Stephanie Ferrante Clara Nichols and Kaela Edwards combined to finish the event in just 11:08.13, which is also the second fastest time in the Big 12 this season.
    Aurora Dybedokken and NCAA champion Natalja Piliusina also competed in the one mile run.
    Piliusina, a seven-time All-American and eight-time Big 12 champion, made her indoor season debut, running a 4:53.74.
    That race marked Piliusina's return to the track following a two-year battle with injuries. She had last competed at an event in 2013 before running in South Bend.
    The native Lithuanian had one NCAA outdoor title in the 1,500-meter run as a Cowgirl and holds seven school records.
    Dybedokken finished ninth in the event and put up a time of 4:49.86.

BOWERMAN UPDATE: WEEK THREE
    The second Bowerman list of the season was released Feb. 4, and two Cowboy stars were featured. One made the elite list of 10, while the other received a nod for the first time this season, just missing out on the list.
    Nick Miller held his spot in the Bowerman top-10. The Cowboy senior and British Champion has not competed this indoor season, but is expected to make a return to the Cowboys in 2016 after redshirting this past outdoor season.
    Making his debut on the list is speedster John Teeters. With his impressive performances in the past three weeks, Teeters has returned to the top of the NCAA in the 60-meter dash, leading the event for the second time in two seasons. Last season, Teeters' 6.52 gave him the joint-top time in the nation after the Indoor season. He finished as the national runner-up.
    Teeters has qualified for the Indoor Championships this season, while Miller's highly anticipated debut doesn't yet have a date set.
    The next Bowerman update is scheduled for March 4.

MEN'S ENTRIES

Steve Miler Open
Arlando Brewer-Johnson, Brayden Brock, Trenton Daniels, Jacob Fincham-Dukes, Chance Galloway, Tanner Green, Simon Imagbe Reid Joyner, Jerel Morrow, Cole Verble, Ryan Wheatley

Alex Wilson Invitational
Matthew Fayers, Bradley Johnson, Tre'Tez Kinnaird, Chad Noelle, Brandon Singleton, Joshua Thompson

WOMEN'S ENTRIES

Steve Miller Open
Cheyenne Allison, Amira Coleman, Darby Crynes, Chase Ealey, Jillian Hagen, Hannah Harris, Katie Kehl, Maddie Lorant, Aina Maartensson, Megan McGraft, Baylor Nelson, Viktoriia Sadokhina, Chandler Wooten, Ieva Zarankaite, Gintare Zenkeviciute

Alex Wilson Invitational
Anna Boyert, Savannah Camacho

COWGIRLS IMPROVE 10 SPOTS IN USTFCCCA WEEK FOUR POLL
    The Oklahoma State Cowgirl track and field team soared 10 spots in this week's United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association top-25.
    OSU jumped from 22 to 12 in the week four rankings, improving 10 places for the second time this season.
    The Cowgirls' improvement in the poll came after a stellar weekend of competition at four meets across three time zones.
    Chase Ealey rocketed up the national shot put rankings with a massive personal best throw of 17.63m/57-10.25, which is good enough for third in the NCAA.
    All-American Kaela Edwards put herself into another top-10 list, this time running the seventh-fastest 3,000 in the NCAA. Edwards now has qualified for the Indoor Championships with the third-best 800-meter time at 2:03.60, the second-best mile at 4:32.14 and has qualified as a member of the distance medley relay team for a total of four events.
    On the men's side, the Cowboys sat at No. 24 for the second consecutive week.
    John Teeters is the only Cowboy with a top-10 mark in the country this season, sharing a tie for the No. 1 60-meter time in the country with a 6.54.
    The Cowboys and Cowgirls have one more weekend and two more competitions remaining on the schedule before heading to Ames, Iowa, for the Big 12 Indoor Championships February 26-27.