COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri track and field continues with the 2025 indoor season with the Bob Teel Invitational this Saturday at 9 a.m. at Hearnes Center Fieldhouse. Attendance is free and open to the public.
INSIDE THE FIELDHOUSE
Eastern Illinois, Lindenwood, Memphis, Missouri State Southern University, Missouri State, Murray State, Northwest Missouri State, SIUE, Kansas City, Washington University and Western Illinois will join the Tigers in the third of five meets hosted in Columbia.
The venue received updates on its 200-meter track with eight-lane sprint straightaway and multiple runways for pole vault and horizontal jumps. The facility has hosted indoor track and field events since its conception in 1972, including the 1991 Big Eight Indoor Track & Field Championship.
LAST TIME OUT
Senior Kristi Perez-Snyman (Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa) tied the high jump program record with a height of 1.83 meters at the Show-Me Showdown on Jan. 17.
Graduate student Alicia Burnett (St. Louis, Missouri) achieved multiple facility records at the Show-Me Showdown, including a 7.29 60m dash to replace LaQuisha Jackson’s 7.33 record in 2016. She also finished the 200m with a personal record of 23.58, surpassing a long-standing record of 23.93 set by Olympian Ximena Restrepo in 1991.
Junior Robert Hines, (St. Louis, Missouri) represented the men with outstanding performances and personal bests in sprints. Hines achieved a 6.74 first-place finish in the 60m dash, tying Nylo Clarke for fourth in program history. He later registered a 21.78 finish in the 200m to place third.
TOP-50 TIGERS
Senior Skylar Coffey (Spring Hill, Tennessee) ranks 33rd nationally in men’s shot put with his standout performance of 18.31m at the Alexis Jarrett Invitational on Jan. 11.
Redshirt junior Sam Innes (Columbia, Missouri) joins Coffey in the national leaderboard with a number eleven rank in men’s weight throw. Innes tallied a 22.46m in the same meet and looks to continue his efforts in the Saturday contest.
Burnett claims two spots in the national rankings for women’s sprints. Her 200m record of 23.58 ranks 15th and her 7.29 in the 60m secures the 18th.
Sophomore Rahel Broemmel, (Sonsbeck, Germany) marks 38th for the women’s 5000m with a time of 16:09.31 achieved in the season opener.
Three Tigers…
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