University of Houston Athletics
Outdoor Season Opens At 64th Annual TSU Relays
3/19/2015 12:00:00 AM | Track and Field
HOUSTON - The Houston Cougar men's and women's track and field teams open the outdoor portion of their 2014-15 schedule and will hit the road for their shortest road trip of the season as they head to the 64th Annual TSU Relays on the campus of Texas Southern on Friday, March 20 and Saturday, March 21, in Houston, Texas.
Action at the TSU Relays begins on Friday with the 10,000m run at 8:30 a.m., with the field events set to kick off an hour later at 9:30 a.m., with the women's long jump. Action will continue throughout the day with short track events beginning at 10:10 a.m., with the women's 100m hurdles.
The majority of action on both days will take place at Durley Stadium on the campus of Texas Southern University, however the throwing events will be held at Holloway Field on the campus of Rice University. The first throwing event, the women's hammer throw, begins at 9:00 a.m., on Friday while the Saturday throwing events will also begin at 2 p.m., with the women's shot put.
Saturday's non-throwing events are scheduled to begin on the track with the women's 5,000m run at 8 a.m. Field events at Texas Southern will begin with the women's triple jump at 11 a.m., and short track running events will start with the women's 200m at 12:30 p.m.
The Cougar men's team is fresh off a dramatic victory at the American Athletic Conference indoor Championships where the Cougars won the 4x400m Relay to clinch the crown by one point. Houston is now the defending American Athletic Conference Champion for each of the Indoor and Outdoor seasons having won the inaugural American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships last season in Orlando, Fla.
The men took home four individual conference champions at the indoor meet including Issac Williams in the 60m hurdles (7.88), LeShon Collins in the 60m dash (6.72), Drevan Anderson-Kaapa in the 800m (1:50.70) and Cameron Cornelius in the shot put (18.11m).
Williams and sophomore teammate Cameron Burrell each earned the right to compete at the NCAA Indoor Championships where Williams finished 10th in the 60m hurdles and Burrell was medically scratched from the 60m dash.
The women will build off a seventh place finish at the American Athletic Conference Indoor Championships. Sophomore sprinter Bria Carter looks to lead the Cougars after being crowned American Athletic Conference Champion in the 60m dash (7.40) in New York.
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Live results for each day of the TSU relays will be available courtesy of AdkinsTrak. Fans can visit AdkinsTrak.com and follow the appropriate links to the live stats or they can click here.
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