Elite Competition Awaits OSU Out West

Friday, March 31

Palo Alto, Calif.

All Day

Oklahoma State University

Stanford Invitational

March 29, 2017 | Cowboy Cross Country & Track, Cowgirl Cross Country & Track

MEET NOTES

The Basics
This week, Oklahoma State heads west to the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, California, to run against elite competition from some of the best teams in the country in pursuit of an all-important NCAA Regional qualifying mark.

Follow The Meet
Live results for the Stanford Invitational will be available on gostanford.com, made possible by Record Timing.
Results for the meet as well as a full recap of Oklahoma State's day on the west coast will be available after the competition on okstate.com.
Follow @run4okstate on Twitter for updates.

Broadcast Information
The 2017 Stanford Invitational will be available to watch online via a live stream from FloTrack.
Fans can access the feed with a paid subscription and the whole meet will be shown, from the first event Friday to the high school boy's 4X400-meter relay on Saturday.
The full schedule of events can be seen on page three of the notes.

What to Watch for - Stanford Invitational
This weekend's Stanford Invitational will be OSU's first chance to compete against some of the nation's elite and the Cowboys and Cowgirls are sending some of their best to California for the test.
On the women's side, Aurora Dybedokken takes to the 400-meter track for the first time since she finished runner-up at the NCAA Championships in the 5,000-meter run.
Savannah Camacho is expected to run in the open 800 after making her season debut last weekend in Fayetteville in the 400.
Abbie Hetherington currently has the No. 1 800-meter time in the country, but looks to improve it to all-but clinch a spot in the West Preliminary Rounds.
Fresh off her first trip to the NCAA Indoor Championships, Kaylee Dodd makes her outdoor season debut in California, where last year she ran a then personal best of 2:07.31.
Five Cowboys who ended their indoor seasons with All-America honors make their season debut this weekend led by seniors Josh Thompson and Craig Nowak.
Both of the Cowboy seniors will run in the 1,500-meter run against a loaded field, while Big 12 Cross Country Runner of the Year Hassan Abdi and Cowboy Jamboree champion Sylvester Barus will run in the 10,000-meter run.
Bradley Johnson will run in the 800 for the first time since his DMR leg at the NCAA Indoor Championships and Jacob Fincham-Dukes seeks his second-straight trip to an NCAA West Regional in the long jump.

Last Time Out
Ieva Zarankaite continued her dominant junior outdoor season this weekend by adding two more titles to her list of accomplishments.
She threw for 14.75m/48-4.75 feet to win the shot put and secure the No. 5 mark in Cowgirl history.
Rogers, Arkansas, native Christian Liddell ran in the men's steeplechase for the first time in his OSU career and won the race in his home state in a personal best time of 9:18.65.
Abbie Hetherington clocked a 2:07.42 and ran down Trinidad and Tobago's Alena Brooks in the last 50 meters for the event win and the best time of the day.
The seeded men's 1,500-meter run featured five Cowboys and two finished in the top-five, including redshirt freshman Heinrich van Niekerk, who took second and topped his week-old personal best by a second.
Sukhi Khosla finished fourth in the 1,500 and joined van Niekerk in the top-five of the Big 12 in the event with his personal best of 3:54.93.
Three-time 800-meter All-American Savannah Camacho ran in the 400-meter dash. The change in distance didn't affect the Cowgirl senior as she finished fifth in a field with two professionals with the seventh-best time in school history of 55.85.
In the women's javelin, Megan Honas nearly made it back-to-back javelin titles in Fayetteville, but the Cowgirl senior settled for second with a throw of 44.92m/147-4.

Stanford Invitational – 2016
Clara Nichols had a big weekend in Palo Alto at last season's Stanford Invitational, as she was one of the Cowgirls' two event wins with her time in the 1,500-meter run, and clinched a spot in the West Preliminary Rounds in the 800.
Former Cowgirl Chase Ealey was the only other winner for the Cowgirls. She won the shot put for the second time in the young season.
Savannah Camacho finished second in a seeded heat of the 1,500, posting a personal best 4:17.56.
Craig Nowak opened his outdoor season in the 1,500 at Cobb Track and took second as the Cowboys' highest finisher.
Then freshman Jacob Fincham-Dukes and newcomer Simon Imagbe both landed some of the best jumps in the west region and secured spots for the Preliminary Rounds in the long jump.

Magnani Leads USA at World Championships
Oklahoma State freshman and Big 12 Cross Country Newcomer of the Year Michelle Magnani finished 37th in the under-20 women's race to lead Team USA at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships Sunday in Kampala, Uganda.
Magnani, a Cowgirl freshman from Moorpark, California, finished the six-kilometer race through the Kololo Independence Ground in 21:32 to help the American junior women claim 12th place in the Ugandan capital city.
OSU was represented in the U20 men's race as well by Cowboy freshman Alec Haines, who finished 58th.
Haines advanced to the World Championships as the seventh-fastest man at the U.S. Junior Championships in Bend, Oregon, but was the No. 4 American finisher in Kampala with his time of 26:28 in the 8K run.
The U.S. junior men took ninth overall.
Ethiopia won both the men's and women's junior team titles, while the Ethiopian men also took the senior team title and Kenya won the senior women's title.
Team USA finished fifth on both the men's and women's side of the senior races, and former Cowboy All-American Shadrack Kipchirchir finished 21st for the U.S. as the third-best finishing American man in the race.

Palo Alto – A Home Away From Home For OSU
It's far from the plains of Oklahoma, but Palo Alto, California, has been good to the Oklahoma State track and field team in recent years.
Both the Cowboys and Cowgirls have put up some of the best times in school history and clinched all-important preliminary round spots while on the Gold Coast.
In the past two seasons, Oklahoma State has put up 14 West Preliminary qualifying times at just the Stanford Invitational.
OSU has recorded 33 top-10 times at Angell Track, including a handful of school records at Stanford since the Dave Smith era began in Stillwater.

Thompson, Edwards, Men's DMR Take All-America Honors
Six members of the Oklahoma State track and field program took home first-team All-America honors at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships with seniors Josh Thompson and Kaela Edwards earning individual honors and Craig Nowak, Brandon Singleton, Bradley Johnson and Hassan Abdi earning the honor as a member of the distance medley relay team.
Thompson finished sixth in the men's mile, while Edwards finished fourth in the women's mile.
It was Thompson's first individual honor as a Cowboy as he finished fifth with the Cowboy DMR team a season ago.
For Edwards, the honor gave her five first-team and six overall heading into her final outdoor season. The Cowgirl senior is OSU's highest scoring woman ever at Indoor Championship events with 29 points.
Dave Smith's Cowboys advanced to the NCAA Indoor Championships in the distance medley relay for the fifth-straight season and earned first-team honors for the third time in that span behind a spirited effort from Abdi in the mile leg, who was only added to the quartet earlier in the week.
Overall, the Cowboys finished 30th and the Cowgirls took 39th.