SAN ANTONIO — Following a week off from competition, the UTSA track & field teams will travel to Kingsville for the Cactus Cup, hosted by Texas A&M-Kingsville on Saturday, April 14, at Javelina Stadium.
The Roadrunners will compete against athletes from Our Lady of the Lake, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M-Kingsville, Texas Southern, Trinity, UIW, UTRGV and Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez.
Field events will get underway at noon and running events are slated to start at 5:30 p.m.
UTSA last competed two weeks ago in the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin and Bobcat Invitational in San Marcos.
The men's 4x200-meter relay team of Brice Chabot, Dennis Phillips, Trevion McCalla and Mike Roth headlined action in Austin, smashing the school record by more than two seconds in a bronze-medal performance at Texas Relays. The quartet clocked a time of 1:21.49 to cross in third place behind Georgia's meet record 1:20.22 clocking and Texas, which posted a 1:20.97, and they earned the Conference USA Outdoor Track Athlete of the Week award for their showing.
The women's 4x100m relay won their section on Friday, as Ibiso David-West, Geraldy Barron, Thennelle Williams and Lauren Roy teamed up to clock a 46.24 for first in the timed final.
With the C-USA Outdoor Championships one month away, UTSA has several athletes ranked in the top eight on the latest league performance lists.
The women boast 24 top-eight marks including league leaders in Alanah Yukich in the 400m hurdles (57.78) and Ingeborg Gruenwald in the long jump (6.23m/20-5.25).
The men own 29 marks that stand in the top eight with Brice Chabot topping the 200m chart (20.76), Christiaan Le Roux and Jemuel Miller pacing the long (7.60m/24-11.25) and triple (16.08m/52-9.25) jumps, respectively, and Joel McFarlane leading the circuit in the decathlon (7,230).
UTSA also appears in the top 10 in five different USTFCCCA Event Squad Rankings this week, highlighted by the top-ranked men's triple jump group of Miller, Dylan James, Jacob Jenkins and Gabriel Binion. The Roadrunners are third in the men's long jump, sixth in the men's 100m and ninth in the women's long jump.
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