ISU Split Across Three Meets This Weekend

AMES, Iowa – The Iowa State track and field teams are splitting up across three meets this weekend, with competitors heading to the Indiana Relays, the Texas Tech Invitational and the UW Invitational on Friday and Saturday.

Competition at Washington will be streamed via the premium service RunnerSpace+, while the Texas Tech Invite will be streamed on TexasTech.TV. There will be no live video from Indiana. Live results will be available for all three meets, please visit the track and field schedule, here, for those links.

Out at Indiana, the No. 20 Iowa State men look to continue putting up top times, with this weekend's focus being the distance medley relay on Friday evening. The Cyclones, who finished fifth in the DMR at last year's NCAA Indoor Championships are sending Cebastian Gentil, Edwin Kurgat, Festus Lagat, Leonel Perez, Roshon Roomes, Konner Roth and Joe Schaefer to Bloomington, with a quartet of them forming the relay. On Saturday, everyone except Kurgat will compete in individual events. Lagat and Roomes will be back in the 800-meter run one week after setting the top two times in the NCAA this season in the event.

Distance will be the focus of the competitors in Seattle at the UW Invitational. The Cyclone men have some of their top distance reps competing, with Chad Johnson, John Nownes and David Too in the 3,000 meters and Mitchell Day and Thomas Pollard in the 5K. As for the ISU women, Abby Caldwell and Cailie Logue highlight the entries in the 3K, while Winrose Chesang makes her 5K debut for the Cyclones, a distance she earned four All-America honors at while at Iowa Central.

Finally at Texas Tech, the focus will be on sprits and hurdles and jumps and throws. One of the nation's premier fields will be assembling in Lubbock, with 12 nationally ranked teams being among the field, including men's No. 1 Florida State and women's No. 1 USC. The notable performer for the ISU men will be Daniel Nixon in the men's 800. A week after running the nation's No. 5 time at 800, he will look to improve it again this weekend. On the women's side, Katarina Vlahovic has recorded a PR in the 60-meter hurdles three-straight meets and will look to continue her improvement at TTU.

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Players Mentioned

Abby Caldwell

Winrose Chesang

Mitchell Day

Cebastian Gentil

Chad Johnson

Edwin Kurgat

Festus Lagat

Cailie Logue

Daniel Nixon

John Nownes

Leonel Perez

Thomas Pollard

Roshon Roomes

Konner Roth

Joe Schaefer

David Too

Katarina Vlahovic

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