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Wildcats Back in Action with the Jim Click Shootout and Multi’s

Wildcats Back in Action with the Jim Click Shootout and Multi’s


TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona Track & Field will compete in their third meet of the outdoor season, the Jim Click Shootout and Multi’s, on Friday and Saturday at Drachman Stadium. The meet will feature Arizona, Cincinnati, Eastern Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Kansas State, and Nebraska.
 
The two-day meet will be the team’s first opportunity to compete in multi’s events on the season, which begin on Friday along with some field events. The competition begins at 10:30 a.m. MST on Friday with the women’s heptathlon and men’s decathlon which will continue on a rolling schedule throughout the day. Independent field events begin at 11:00 a.m. MST on Friday as well. Saturday’s events begin at 9:30 a.m. with more multi’s competitions. Independent field events get underway at 11:00 a.m. MST and running events begin at 12:30 p.m. MST. Live results can be found here.
 
“The Jim Click Shootout is one of the premier team scoring competitions in America,” said Head Coach Fred Harvey. “We have seven full teams, both men and women from the Pac-12, Big-12, Big-10, and the MAC. Our teams are off to an amazing start, and with the conference championships being six weeks away, this level of competition was designed to prepare us for what we are going to face at the Pac-12 Championships.”
 
The Wildcats enter the competition after a bye week and have excelled in their previous two meets so far this outdoor season. Trayvion White-Austin stole the show at the team’s last competition, the Willie Williams Classic, clocking a school record and event winning time of 10.14 in the 100m, which broke Michael Bates’ 33-year-old record in the event. For his efforts, White-Austin earned Pac-12 Men’s Track Athlete of the Week honors, becoming the third Wildcat to receive a Pac-12 Weekly Award this season with Sir Jonathan Sims and Yan Vazquez being the other two. Sims won the long jump at the Willie Williams Classic with a personal best leap of 26-1.75 (7.97m) which ranked first in the nation and fourth in school history. In the outdoor season opener, the Arizona Spring Break Fiesta, Vazquez won the 400m hurdles with a time of 51.09 which ranked eighth in school history.
 
At the team’s last competition, 10 Wildcats moved up in the all-time record books: White-Austin (first, 100m), Jenica Bosko (second, long jump), Sims (fourth, long jump),

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