AMES, Iowa - The Iowa State track and field program has rolled into Fort Worth, Texas for this weekends Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships, hosted by TCU. Action at the Lowdon Track and Field Complex begins on Friday and runs through Sunday.
Friday events start at 9 a.m. in the field, with ISU beginning at noon. The decathlon and heptathlon also kick off on Friday, starting at 2:30 p.m. and the track will see the 10,000-meter run finals at 8:30 p.m. Saturday competition begins at 10 a.m. with the multi-events wrapping up. Field events get underway at 4 p.m., with track prelims starting at 5:30 p.m. The competition wraps up on Sunday with field events at 11 a.m., and the track finals program beginning at 4:30 p.m.
The Sunday track finals will be shown live on Fox Sports Go, beginning at 4:30 p.m. For more information about Fox Sports Go, click
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Live results for the meet will be provided by Delta Timing,
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In his final Big 12 Championships,
Taylor Sanderson is the favorite to take his first conference championship in the decathlon. The top seed in the Big 12, and also ranked ninth in the country, Sanderson set his personal best in the decathlon at the Jim Click Shootout on Apr. 7-8 at 7,471 points. Sanderson will also compete in the 110m hurdles individually.
Other men's contenders include
Jan Jeuschede in the shot put and
Daniel Everett in the 5,000 and 10,000-meter runs. With the graduation of Texas' Ryan Crouser, an eight-time conference champ in the shot put, the competition will open up and Jeuschede, the Big 12 runner-up to Crouser in the indoor shot put in February, will be among the contenders. He ranks third in the conference this year in the shot at 60-3. At Big 12 Indoors, Everett was the one guy who was able to battle with the Oklahoma State contingent. It will be more of the same in Fort Worth, which includes Everett making his collegiate 10K debut on Friday night.
On the women's side,
Christina Hillman will go for the season sweep of the conference championships in the shot put. The competition in the Big 12 has been strong, with Hillman coming into the weekend as the five seed, but she will have three previous conference crowns to her name, leading the field. In the long jump and triple jump,
Jhoanmy Luque will be among the top of the leaderboard. However, the Venezuelan will have to contend with some of the best in the country to take top billing. In the long jump, Luque is the two-seed behind K-State's Akela Jones, the defending NCAA champ in the heptathlon. Meanwhile in the triple jump, Texas Tech's Viershanie Latham is No. 2 in the nation this season, with Texas' Asa Garcia at No. 4.