SPOKANE, Wash. – For the second consecutive week, the Arizona Track and Field team will be competing in a pair of simultaneous meets. The WSU Open/Invite & Multi’s will take place in Spokane, Wash., from Thursday, Feb. 2 to Saturday, Feb. 4, while the Ron Mann Classic will be in Flagstaff, Ariz., on Friday, Feb. 3 and Saturday, Feb. 4.
The WSU Open/Invite & Multi’s will start the earliest of the two, beginning on Thursday at 1:00 p.m. MST with the men’s heptathlon 60m. On Friday, the meet will get started at 12:00 p.m. MST with the men’s heptathlon 60m hurdles. Finally, the end of the three-day competition will get underway at 12:00 p.m. MST on Saturday with a multitude of events: the women’s pole vault, men’s pole vault, women’s shot put, and women’s 60m hurdles. Live results for all the events can be found here.
The two-day Ron Mann Classic begins Friday morning at 9:00 a.m. MST with the men’s heptathlon 60m as well. Saturday starts in a similar fashion, this time with the men’s heptathlon 60m hurdles beginning at 9:00 a.m. MST. Live results for all the events in Flagstaff this weekend can be found here.
This pair of meets follow up the Wildcats’ two competitions last weekend at Texas Tech and Washington. The events in Lubbock, Texas were highlighted by Talie Bonds lowering her own school record in the 60m hurdles, which she set in the first meet of the year, to finish second overall. Additionally, Jordan Geist won both the men’s shot put and men’s weight throw. His shot put toss of 21.48m from earlier in the year still remains the 10th best throw in NCAA History.
Katie Daily and Alexa Porpaczy also had top-three finishes in Lubbock, with Daily placing second in the women’s pole vault and Porpaczy finishing third in the women’s long jump. In Seattle, Iker Sanchez Lopez was the team’s top finisher, placing 10th in the men’s mile. Overall, the team combined to set over 20 new personal bests at both meets.
The men’s team comes into the weekend ranked 26th in the USTFCCCA rankings, barely missing out on another week in the Top 25. Furthermore, this will be the second time this season that track and field will travel to…
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