Texas wins Big 12 Track and Field Championships

The Texas Longhorns men’s and women’s track and field teams both won Big 12 Championships on Saturday.

Texas’ men’s and women’s indoor track and field teams won their respective Big 12 Championships on Saturday. It is the first time in six years that a school won both the men’s and women’s championships in the same year.

Here is a list of the events that both Texas teams won.

Men

Shot Put – Adrian Piperi, 68 feet 10.75 inches

1600 Meter Run – Yusuf Bizimana, 4 minutes 5.44 seconds

200 Meter Sprint – Micaiah Harris, 20.38 seconds

4 x 400 Meter Relay (Jon Maas, Micaiah Harris, Charles Brockman III, Willington Wright) – 3 minutes 7.10 seconds

Women

60 Meter Hurdles – Chanel Brissett, 7.90 seconds

60 Meter Dash – Kynnedy Flannel, 7.25 seconds

600 Yard Run – Davicia Patterson, 1 minute, 18.85 seconds

200 Meter Run – Kynnedy Flannel, 22.55 seconds

Women’s High Point Award – Kynnedy Flannel

The men’s team totaled 141 points, eight more than Texas Tech to win the men’s division. The women’s team totaled 154.5 points, 51.5 points more than second place Oklahoma state.

The NCAA indoor track and field National Championships will be from March 12-13 at the University of Arkansas.

Texas Ranked Top Five in Men’s and Women’s Track and Field

The Texas Longhorns indoor track and field teams in appeared in the top five of the rankings for both the men’s and women’s team.

The indoor track and field is underway into week one of the season behind them. The Texas Longhorns are being well represented in the top of the national rankings produced by USTFCCCA. Both men and women’s team come in ranked at number four in the nation.

Coming up for the teams will be the Razorback Invitational in Fayetteville, Arkansas on January 31st and February 1st.

In their previous meet, junior sprinter Micaiah Harris set a new school record for the 200-meter dash in 20.53 seconds.While senior distance runner Kathryn Gillespie who set a new school record in the mile run with a time of 4:34.64, besting the previous record by five seconds.