Tulsa Opens Outdoor Season at Arkansas Spring Invitational

Friday, March 22

Fayetteville, Ark.

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Arkansas Spring Invitational

Photo by: Ben Solomon

Tulsa Opens Outdoor Season at Arkansas Spring Invitational

3/23/2019 10:18:00 PM | Track and Field

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Tulsa track and field squad claimed two event wins in the team's outdoor season opener at the Arkansas Spring Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

On the women's side, freshman Jaidah McCallon earned a first-place finish in the open section of the 800 meters, going 2:14.68 to win the event by more than three full seconds.

Thrower Baylor Reese also tallied gold in the meet, picking up a 42.35-meter throw in the discus to dominate the field and earn first in the event.

Along with the two top finishers, Tulsa notched 12 top-five placings in the two-day meet, highlighted by a strong TU race in the invitational section of a heated 800-meter run. The Golden Hurricane would go 2-3 in the race, as Grey Howard and Robert Tully ran 1:51.87 and 1:52.68, respectively, for silver and bronze.

The team got a strong season-opening performance from senior sprinter Bailey Stewart, who picked up two top-five finishes in the meet. Stewart notched a 10.79 (+1.5) in the 100 meters for fifth, followed by a time of 47.77 in the 400 meters for fourth overall.

In the 1,500-meter invitational, Adam Breaux continued his strong surge as of late, running the fast race in 3:56.49 for Tulsa's only sub-4 runner and third-place overall.

On the women's side of the same event, TU managed three runners inside the top-10, as Adrena Mazzei (4:36.79), Katharina Pesendorfer (4:44.26) and Caroline Miller (4:47.16) took fifth, seventh and eighth, respectively.

The Tulsa squad will prepare for a loaded week, as it will split for the Stanford Invitational, San Francisco State Invitational and the Oral Roberts Invite from March 28-30.

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Arkansas Spring Invitational | Fayetteville, Ark. | March 22-23, 2019

Tulsa Results

Men

100 Meters
5. Bailey Stewart – 10.79 (+1.5)
12. Henry Visser – 11.03 (+1.5)
13. Joseph Nemec – 11.11 (+3.2)
18. Emmanuel Okwuone – 11.19 (+3.2)
27. Rory Mitchell – 11.72 (+3.2)

200 Meters
10. Joseph Nemec – 22.48 (+0.8)
26. Rory Mitchell – 24.08 (+0.6)

400 Meters
4. Bailey Stewart – 47.77
19. Bailey Bournival – 51.40

400-Meter Hurdles
4. Henry Visser – 54.32
6. Emmanuel Okwuone – 55.85
9. Hans Kunsch – 56.51

800 Meters
9. August Bont – 1:58.70
15. Nathan Rendon – 2:04.31

800 Meters Invitational
2. Grey Howard – 1:51.87
3. Robert Tully – 1:52.68

1,500 Meters
6. Reed Sahadevan – 4:12.73
8. Bryan Corbaz – 4:14.33
18. Brett Davis – 4:23.75

1,500 Meters Invitational
3. Adam Breaux – 3:56.49
7. Jerik Embleton – 4:04.52
10. Jackson Schwartz – 4:08.76

Long Jump
24. Joseph Nemec – 5.84m (+3.1)

Hammer Throw
7. Aleks Rapp – 50.42m

Javelin Throw
11. Ryan Still – 43.03m

Discus
6. Aleks Rapp – 44.58m

Women

100 Meters
6. Cara Johnson – 12.16 (+2.6)
7. Ca'Purnika Galbert – 12.29 (+2.6)
10. Jaidyn McCallon – 12.45 (+3.1)
17. Hannah Booe – 12.87 (+3.1)
21. Kassidy Shuaib – 13.00 (+3.1)

200 Meters
6. Carsyn Spurgeon – 25.18 (+2.0)
14. Hannah Booe – 26.25 (+1.9)
15. Cara Johnson – 26.26 (+0.6)

400 Meters
6. Jaidyn McCallon – 56.36
12. Ca'Purnika Galbert – 1:00.99

400-Meter Hurdles
11. Kassidy Shuaib – 1:09.27

800 Meters
1. Jaidah McCallon – 2:14.68

800 Meters Invitational
4. Allison Bailey – 2:12.63

1,500 Meters
9. Katie Andrews – 5:09.98

1,500 Meters Invitational
5. Adrena Mazzei – 4:36.79
7. Katharina Pesendorfer – 4:44.26
8. Caroline Miller – 4:47.16
11. Avery Culpepper – 5:03.13

3,000 Meters
5. Reagan Hausmann – 10:21.75

Long Jump
4. Carsyn Spurgeon – 5.54m (+3.9)

Hammer Throw
5. Baylor Reese – 42.51m

Javelin Throw
4. Ali Lund – 38.22m

Discus
1. Baylor Reese – 42.35m

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