Track: OU team in New York, Lincoln this weekend
The University of Oklahoma indoor track team will split this weekend, heading to both New York City and Lincoln, Neb.
A group of distance runners and sprinters will be in the Big Apple for the 2008 New Balance Collegiate Invitational, Friday and Saturday, while jumpers, vaulters and multi-event athletes compose the majority of an Oklahoma group competing in the Adidas Classic on Saturday.
The No. 7 Oklahoma men will face stiff competition in the New Balance Invitational’s short sprints including the 60-meter dash. Jacobi Mitchell and Marcus Pugh, who is ranked No. 12 nationally in the event, will face defending NCAA 100-meter champion Walter Dix of Florida State along with several other NCAA sprints finalists.
Sheldon Leith, ranked ninth nationally in the 60-meter hurdles, will compete in that event along with the 200-meter dash with Mitchell and Pugh.
Latoya Greaves is ranked No. 9 nationally in the women’s 60-meter hurdles and will compete in just that event at the NB Invitational. Greaves will have a chance to climb in the event’s rankings as three competitors are ranked higher.
In all, 22 OU student-athletes will compete in 21 events.
In the Adidas Classic, Oklahoma jumper Shardae Boutte will attempt to continue his season winning streak. In every competiton that Boutte has entered this season, the senior horizontal jumper has come away with a win in either the triple jump or long jump, winning both in last week’s J.D. Martin Invitational. Boutte, who is ranked 2nd nationally in the triple jump and 15th in the long, will only compete in just the long jump this weekend.
The New Balance Collegiate Invitational begins Friday at 11:45 EST with the women’s 3,000-meter collegiate race. Oklahoma’s first action comes 50 minutes later as Kristi Cook, Amanda Mayfield and Jasmine Still take to track for the women’s 500-meter dash. Saturday’s action kicks off at 9 a.m. with the women’s 5,000-meter run.
The Adidas Classic begins Saturday at 9 a.m. CST with the long jump and the women’s 60-meter hurdles prelims.
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