The Texas Tech Track and field team are hosting the Big 12 Conference indoor Championships Friday, Feb 22, in the Sports Performance Center and had several Red Raiders qualify for the finals on Saturday.
The men’s team finished the day in third place with 37 points behind Kansas and Iowa State. While Tech’s women’s team finished second behind Iowa State with 36.5 points.
Seasons Usual placed fourth in the women’s weight throw, becoming the Red Raider’s first athlete to medal at this season’s indoor conference championship.
Andrew Hudson made history in the men’s 200 prelims, shattering the current collegiate lead, Big 12 lead, meet record, and setting a new personal best time at 20.33.
Divine Oduduru trailed closely behind in second with a time of 20.41 and Derrius Rodgers claimed the sixth qualifying spot.
Hudson also leads the men’s 60m at 6.57, followed by Rodgers at 6.602 and then Oduduru at 6.609. Kesean Carter also captured the 7th qualifying spot with a time of 6.71. Tech will enter the finals with four men on the blocks.
Chinne Okoronkwo walked off with Tech’s first conference championship in women’s pole vault, posting a 4.33m jump. Baylor’s Tuesdi Tidwell, but Okoronkwo took the goal due to the total number of attempts. Both jumpers posted a career best. Tech’s Chole Wall also placed fourth with a of 4.13m
Tech had two women qualify for the 200m final in Sara Limp who ran a 23.60 which ties her career best and D’jenne Eghareba. Also, Tech’s Maygen Smith ran her season’s best of 2:12.15 in the women’s 800m, clutching into the seventh spot.
Tech’s lone 440m runner Tyreek Mathis qualified for the finals with a time of 47.24. Drew McMichael marked a 5.58 in the men’s pole vault, capturing a third-place medal, while Tech’s Odaine Lewis, Charles Brown, and Justin Hall finished second, third, and fourth in the men’s long jump with 7.92, 7.80, 77.6 marks.
As for the women side, Ivy Walker finished fifth with a 6.14 mark, Okoronkwo finished sixth at 6.0-, and Chelsey Cole finished just outside a top-six finish with a 6.07 mark.
The Big 12 championships field events will pick back up tomorrow at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 23, while the race finals will start at 2 p.m.
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