Honoring a Champion: Cougars Host Cameron Burrell Meet

HOUSTON – The University of Houston track and field team will honor three-time National Champion Cameron Burrell by naming hosting its Alumni Invitational on Friday – now named the Cameron Burrell Alumni Invitational.

CAMERON BURRELL ALUMNI INVITATIONAL
Dates \| Time				Friday, April 7 \| All Day
Location				Tom Tellez Track at Carl Lewis International Complex \| Houston, Texas
Teams				Houston (host), Auburn, Houston Christian, Marquette, Rice, St. Edwards, St. Thomas, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas Southern
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STARTING LINE NOTES

For the third time this season, junior Shaun Maswanganyi was named American Athletic Conference Track Athlete of the Week.
Maswanganyi is the #1 100-meter dash sprinter in the country for the third straight week after running 10.01 at the Texas Relays.
Maswanganyi also ranks 7th nationally in the 200-meter dash after running 20.41 on Saturday.
Four different Cougars rank in the top 10 nationally in their respective six events, including the 400-meter relay.
The Cougars have 29 top 48 marks in the NCAA West Preliminary Round descending order list which includes both the men's and women's 400-meter relay and 1,600-meter relay.
Houston leads the conference in nine different events including the men's 400 relay and 1,600 relay.
Houston and UCF are the only two schools in the conference with nine conference-leading marks.
Former Houston head coach and alumni Leroy Burrell brings his Auburn Tigers to the Cameron Burrell Alumni Invitational.
Friday marks the first time Auburn has ever competed at Houston in track and field.
Auburn's top sprinter, Favour Ashe, and Shaun Maswanganyi could face off in what may be a preview to the NCAA Championships in the 100. Both sprinters have run 10.05 or faster in their careers. Ashe ran the fastest 60-meter dash time in prelims at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships but did not start the final due to injury.
Teams in attendance: Houston (host), Auburn, Houston Christian, Marquette, Prairie View A&M, Rice, St. Edwards, St. Thomas, Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Texas Southern.
University of Houston's CAPS services will be in attendance just inside the gates of the stadium during the meet giving away free wristbands that are red and green. Red or Houston and green for the Powerful Minds campaign to bring awareness to mental health. CAPS will be on site at approximately 2:30 p.m.
Houston Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) will also be at the meet passing out the wristbands and green ribbons to go along with the Powerful Minds campaign.

ABOUT CAMERON BURRELL
One of Houston's most decorated athletes, Cameron Burrell captured three NCAA national titles including the 2018 individual championship in the 100-meter in 2018, matching his father Leroy Burrell's accomplishment 28 years earlier.

In 2018, Cameron also ran the anchor leg of the Cougars' 4x100-meter relay team, which successfully defended its NCAA national championship in that event.

Cameron earned All-America First Team honors in the 60-meters three times in his career (2014, 2017-18) during the indoor season and was a three-time First-Team selection (2016-18) in the 100-meters during the outdoor schedule. He also earned All-America honors as the team's anchor leg in the 4x100-meter relay in 2014 and again in 2018.

Outside of his collegiate career, Cameron was a member of the United States 4x100-meter relay team, which earned gold at the World Junior Championships in 2012 and captured silver at the 2019 World Relays. He also anchored the U.S. relay team to gold at the 2018 Athletics World Cup.

On June 8, 2017, he became the 121^st man to break the 10-second barrier over 100 meters with a school record time of 9.93 seconds a mark that bested his father's school record – set five years before Cameron's birth – by .01 of a second. He repeated that feat at the 2018 USA Championships.

Cameron is the school record holder in the 100-meter dash, 4x100-meter relay, 60-meter dash and the Tom Tellez Track facility record holder in the 100 and 4x100 relay.

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