OSU Heads to Arizona for Jim Click Shootout

Saturday, April 8

Tucson, Ariz.

All Day

Oklahoma State University

Jim Click Invitational

April 05, 2017 | Cowboy Cross Country & Track, Cowgirl Cross Country & Track

MEET NOTES

The Basics
Oklahoma State heads to Tucson, Arizona, for the Jim Click Shootout to take on a small group of top-teams at a meet named for former OSU Cowboy football captain Jim Click.

Follow The Meet
Live results for the Jim Click Shootout will be available on arizonawildcats.com, made possible by Finished Results.
Results for the meet as well as a full recap of Oklahoma State's day in the desert will be available after the competition on okstate.com.
Follow @run4okstate on Twitter for updates.

Broadcast Information
The 2017 Jim Click Shootout will not be broadcast or streamed online.
The full schedule of events can be seen on page three of the notes.

What to Watch For - Jim Click Shootout
The Jim Click Shootout features one of the elite sprint programs in the country in TCU, and the Horned Frogs should bring out the best from Cowgirl freshman Kira White and sophomore Malik Givens in the 100-meter dashes.
Two-time indoor All-American Brandon Singleton will headline a group of 400-meter runners heading to the desert this weekend, including Anthony Grogan Jr., Amira Coleman and Ambra Wesley.
Megan Honas and Ieva Zarankaite are in qualifying positions after nearly a month of competition, while Wesley Hallof, all-Big 12 from a season ago, and Sean Casey look to improve their seeding for the Big 12 Championships in the Javelin.
One of the highest scoring Cowgirls in Big 12 history laces up for the second time this season as Clara Nichols makes her season debut in the 800.
Bradley Johnson will also make his 800-meter debut. Johnson was a member of the Cowboy DMR team that took first-team All-America honors during the indoor season, along with Singleton.

Last Time Out
Senior All-American Josh Thompson cruised to a win, and fellow Cowboy Craig Nowak finished fifth in an eventful invitational section of the 1,500-meter run.
Thompson's 3:41.80 was nearly the fastest time of the day despite a collision in lane one involving several athletes and a meet official that forced Thompson, Nowak and the remaining competitors toward the center of the track just before the bell lap.
Fincham-Dukes won his section of the long jump with an outdoor collegiate personal-best mark of 7.65m/25-1.25 feet.
The leap was the second-best in school history, the fourth-best mark in the NCAA West Region and second in the Big 12.
A true freshman broke the nine-minute barrier in the 3,000-meter steeplechase as Ryan Smeeton clocked an 8:54.37 in what was supposed to be the slowest heat of the day.
Smeeton's time today put the Cowboy newcomer onto his first top-10 list as the No. 8 time in school history. The same time last year would have been enough for a place in the West Preliminary rounds and is currently in the top-15 in the west.
The Cowgirls produced two marks under 4:21 in the 1,500-meter run, including Savannah Camacho's Big 12-leading 4:18.99.
Kaylee Dodd nearly cracked 4:20, but came up just short. Her time of 4:20.09, however, put her at the No. 2 spot in the conference behind Camacho, and is in the top-20 in the region.
Camacho was the fourth-best finisher in the 800m on Saturday with her time of 2:05.63 from the fastest heat of the day. As the second-best collegiate mark of the day, Camacho moves to No. 1 in the west region.

Jim Click – 2016
Tre'Tez Kinnaird won the men's 800-meter run at the 2016 Jim Click Shootout in a time that would send him to the West Preliminary Rounds and put him into the Cowboy record-books.
Josh Thompson's then personal best in the 1,500-meter run earned him his first outdoor win as a Cowboy, and the Cowboys 4X100-meter relay team cracked the 40-second mark to make it back to back preliminary round invites.
All-American Chase Ealey kept her hot-streak alive making it three wins in four shot put competitions.
The Cowgirls earned 11 top-five finishes while the Cowboys tabbed 11 in Tucson last year.

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.

Posse of Pokes in the Ranks of the Region
Before anyone can punch a ticket to Track Town, USA, for the NCAA Championships, they have to first make it out of the region, and so far OSU has 22 marks worthy of a spot in the West Preliminary Rounds.
The lone leading mark comes from Savannah Camacho, who has the No. 1 time in the 800-meter run at 2:05.63. Kaylee Dodd and Abbie Hetherington also hold top-10 times in the 800 and The trio also has top-20 1,500-meter times with Camacho leading the charge in ninth.
Josh Thompson's No. 2 1,500-meter time is only four-tenths of a second off the lead in the entire NCAA, and Craig Nowak comes in fifth in the event in the region.
Jacob Fincham-Dukes is the only Cowboy ranked in the top-50 in a field event, but he's in seventh in the long jump and finished 10th at the NCAA Indoor Championships just under a month ago.

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.