Wildcats Head to Metroplex for the WAC T&F Championship

ARLINGTON - UTA is hosting the WAC T&F Championship at Maverick Stadium this Thursday-Saturday, May 15-17. Both the women's and men's Wildcat teams finished 5th in the WAC Indoor Championship. This year, on the men's side it appears that the battle for the team title will be between Utah Valley University and Grand Canyon, with the host school UTA playing the role as the spoiler. For the women Utah Valley appears to be big favorite to win the team title, with the battle for 2 nd including teams from Tarleton State, UTA, and Grand Canyon.

This will be the first WAC outdoor championship for the Wildcats under Coach Miles Smith. Coach Smith was hired late in the recruiting cycle last summer and there were relatively few signee additions. However, what appears to be a stellar recruiting class, added to several key returnees should find ACU in the running for a podium finish in the near future.

The three-day meet will begin at 10 A.M. on Thursday with the first event in the men's decathlon kicking things off. Here are the events scheduled for each day (only events that have Wildcats entered) and in parentheses behind the name are all Wildcats who are ranked in the top-12 in the event,

Thursday
 Men's decathlon (1 st day) – Canaan Fairley (3)
 Women's heptathlon (1 st day) – Natalie Poe (2), Nele Huth
 Women's hammer throw finals -Kailey Roskop (5), Sterling Glenn (7), Mariana Van Dyk (11)
 Men's hammer throw finals – Sutton Welch (1)
 Women's javelin throw finals – Nele Huth (10)
 Men's 1500 prelims – Vincent Luffey
 Men's 200 prelims – Ethan Krause (11)
 Women's 200 prelims – Laya'Lapri Ratney, Ja'Kaylon Record
 Men's 400 hurdles prelims -Kenan Reil
 Men's 10,000 run finals – Andruw Villa, Samuel Lanham, Jacob Russell
 Women's 10,000 run finals – Kyla Fuller (10), Hadley Phillips (11), Hannah Kasper

Friday
 2 nd day of competition for the men's decathlon and women's heptathlon
 Women's Long Jump finals – Luize Velmere (7)
 Women's shot put finals – Sterling Glenn (1), Mariana Van Dyk (5), Nele Huth (8), Kailey Roskop
 Men's shot put finals – Sutton Welch (9), Stone Smith (11)
 Men's 110 hurdles prelims – Miguel Hall (7)
 Women's 100 hurdles prelims – Hana Banks (10)
 Men's 800 prelims – Benjamin Castro (7), JP Trook
 Women's 800 prelims – Jalyn Childers (11), Jess Reyes, Charlie Hamilton
 Men's 400 prelims – Landon Gary
 Women's 400 prelims – Emma Santoro (10), Ja'Kaylon Sabbath, Gracee Whitaker
 Men's 100 prelims – Ethan Krause (1)
 Women's 100 prelims – Laya'Lapri Ratney
 Men's steeplechase finals – Mark Barajas (7)
 Women's steeplechase finals – Peyton Bornstein (8), Madison Anderson (11)
Saturday – final events for all events with prelims on Thursday and Friday
 Women's discus finals – Kailey Roskop (4), Mariana Van Dyk (11), Sterling Glenn
 Women's high jump finals – Ja'Dasia Sims (2), Natalie Poe
 Men's triple jump finals – Donovan Ramirez (4)
 Women's triple jump finals – Luize Velmere (2)
 Men's discus finals – Stone Smith (4)
 Men's javelin finals – Colin McCrillis (12)
 Men's 5000 finals – Andruw Villa, Samuel Lanham, Mark Barajas, Zachary Martin, Vincent Luffey
 Women' 5000 finals – Madison Anderson, Peyton Bornstein, Kyla Fuller, Hadley Phillips
 Men's 4x400 relay finals – Gary, Fairley, Hall, Reil
 Women's 4x400 relay finals – Record, Santoro, Reyes, Whitaker (3)

Live results for all the events can be found at: https://www.ntxtiming.com/