COLLEGE STATION - Texas A&M will host a pair of indoor track and field meets this weekend with the Aggie Team Invitational on Friday, with finals starting at 1:30 p.m., and the Texas A&M 11-Team Invitational on Saturday, with finals beginning at 2 p.m., inside the Gilliam Indoor Track Stadium.
With both meets including team scoring the Aggies, with the men ranked No. 9 and the women No. 21 in preseason indoor rankings, will be featured in Saturday's 11-Team meet along with Texas, with the Longhorn men No. 2 and the women No. 3, as well as Abilene Christian, Baylor (No. 11 women), BYU, Oklahoma State, South Carolina, SFA, TCU (No. 7 men), Texas State and UTSA.
Friday's Aggie Team Invitational will include Houston Baptist, Lamar, Louisiana Tech, McNeese State, North Texas, Prairie View A&M, Sam Houston State, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi, Texas A&M - Kingsville, Texas Southern, UL-Lafayette, UL-Monroe, UT-Arlington and UT-Rio Grande Valley.
Two events will involve schools from both meets on Friday afternoon with the distance medley relay at 4:30 p.m. and the 5,000 meters at 5:40 p.m.
Sprint events offer some intriguing matchups as Aggie Aliyah Brown and Longhorn Morolake Akinosun, both Illinois natives, race over 60 and 200 meters. The men's 60 includes Ronnie Baker of TCU and John Teeters of Oklahoma State, both of whom have clocked 6.52 seconds in the event, while A&M sprinters in the event includes
Devin Jenkins and
Elijah Morrow.
Following a 17-5 meet record victory at the Reveille Invitational,
Audie Wyatt teams up with Aggies
Chase Wolfle,
Carl Johansson and
Jacob Wooten amid a field of 26 entries in the pole vault. The top challenger includes Reese Watson of Texas.
The women's pole vault features Demi Payne, who set a collegiate record inside Gilliam a year ago and established a meet record of 15-2 (4.63). Top collegiate vaulters in the field include Annie Rhodes of Baylor and Kaitlin Petrillose of Texas along with the A&M trio of
Sara Kathryn Stevens,
Emily Gunderson and
Brittany Wooten.
After his A&M debut in the mile during the Reveille Invitational,
Donavan Brazier races at 800 meters amid a field that includes NCAA 1,500m champion Chad Noelle of Oklahoma State.
Latario Collie competes in the triple jump for the Aggies, his first appearance in the event since representing the Bahamas in the World Championships this past summer.
Collie was the NCAA Outdoor runner-up in the triple jump. He also set a school and SEC meet record as runner-up in the conference meet with a leap of 56-4 as a secondary mark behind his wind-aided 56-7 . Indoors last season, Collie placed second in the SEC and finished fifth at the national championships.
Post collegians scheduled to compete on Saturday include Trayvon Bromell, Michael Frater,
Shavez Hart and Michael Bryan in the 60; Demetrius Pinder,
Bralon Taplin,
Gregory Coleman and Ramon Miller in the 400; 2014 Bowerman winner Laura Roesler in the women's 800 with Leo Manzano and
Josh Hernandez in the men's 800; and three-time NCAA steeplechase champion Anthony Rotich will contest the mile.
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