Seniors Make Final Home Appearance Thursday

Thursday, April 27

Abilene, Texas

All Day

Abilene Christian

Oliver Jackson Twilight

4/26/2023 9:22:00 AM | Track & Field

ABILENE – Fifty-eight Abilene Christian track and field athletes bring their talents to Elmer Gray Stadium for the last home meet of the season on Thursday – the Oliver Jackson Twilight.

Among the schedule of events is a 3 p.m. Senior Recognition.

Seniors Jamal January, Maxwel Kiplagat and Jared Williams run their final races. January and Williams run the men's 200 meters with January also entered in the 110 hurdles. Kiplagat represents ACU in the 3000 steeplechase.

The seniors on the women's team are Kaitlyn Callaway, Jessica Campbell, Payton Kirk and Prudence Kiyeng. Callaway is in the hammer and javelin and Campbell is in the 100 hurdles, shot put and javelin. Kirk is in the pole vault, long jump and 4x100 relay and Kiyeng runs the 1500 meters.

The field events begin at 10:30 a.m. with the javelin throw with the men's triple jump slated to launch at 5:30 p.m.

The action gets started on the track at 3:20 p.m. with the 4x100 relay. The 5000 meters is slated as the final event of the night, scheduled for 7:25 p.m.

Additionally, ACU sends a crew of discus throwers to Texas Tech on Friday for the Corky/Crofoot Shootout. Zoe Burleson, Athan Huelskamp and Nathanial Collier are confirmed for that meet. Those athletes compete at 12:30 p.m. on Friday.

Wildcats schedule in the Oliver Jackson Twilight
10:30 a.m. – Javelin (women): Kaitlyn Callaway, Jessica Campbell, Skylar Harris, Natalie Poe
10:30 a.m. – Javelin (men, following women): Ethan Christian
Noon – Women's Long Jump: Ella Anttila, Paige Boucher, Payton Kirk, Poe, Ja'Dasia Sims
1 p.m. – Pole Vault (men): Christian, Jacob Thomas
1 p.m. – Pole Vault (women, following men): Harris, Kirk
1:30 p.m. Men's Discus: Nathanial Collier, Athan Huelskamp
1:30 p.m. – Discus (women, following men): Zoe Burleson
1:30 p.m. – Hammer Throw (Women, following men on East Throwing Field): Callaway
1:30 p.m. – Shot Put (Women, following discus, on East Throwing Field): Campbell, Burleson, Harris, Poe
1:30 p.m. – Shot Put (Men, following women): Christian, Collier, Huelskamp
2 p.m. – Men's Long Jump: Caleb Lawrence
2:30 p.m. – Women's High Jump: Harris, Sims
3:20 p.m. – Women's 4x100 Relay (Kirk, Ja'Kaylon Sabbath, D'anna Smith, Savannah Walker)
3:35 p.m. – Women's 100 Hurdles: Boucher, Campbell, Poe
3:45 p.m. – Men's 110 Hurdles: Jamal January, Jeremy King, Luke White
4 p.m. – Women's 400: Gracyn Reed, Sims
4 p.m. – Men's 400 (following women): Horatio Brooks, Christian
4 p.m. – Women's Triple Jump: Anttila
4:25 p.m. – Women's 100: Hannah Foster
4:25 p.m. – Men's 100 (following women): Joseph Baluti, Christian, Addison Franklin, Jack Marshall
4:45 p.m. – Women's 400 hurdles: Courtney Latham
4:45 p.m. – Men's 400 Hurdles (following women): Luke White
5:10 p.m. – Women's 200: Foster, Sabbath, Smith, Walker
5:10 p.m. – Men's 200 (following women): Baluti, Tyce Chaney, Franklin, January, Marshall, Matthew Mills, Jared Williams
5:45 p.m. – Women's 800: Bella Evans, Kate Hansen, Breonna McCarthy Reese, Riley Pyeatt
5:45 p.m. – Men's 800 (following women): Levi Chambers, Cooper Goggans, Noah Jones, JP Trook
6:10 p.m. – Women's 1500: Katelyn Coldicott, Prudence Kiyeng, Grace White, Kate Williams
6:10 p.m. – Men's 1500 (following women): Kevin Castruita, Chambers, Gabe Embree, Luke Hernandez, Samuel Lanham, Keaton Raney, Gabe Trevino, Trook
6:45 p.m. – Women's 3000 Steeplechase: Peyton Bornstein
6:45 p.m. – Men's 3000 Steeplechase (following women): Maxwel Kiplagat, Lanham
7:15 p.m. – Women's 4x400 Relay (Evans, McCarthy Reese, Pyeatt, Reed)
7:25 p.m. – Men's 5000 (following women): Neal Helgerson, Trevino