Kevin Trainor June 3, 2021
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A record-setting athletics year, including to date one NCAA title and 10 Southeastern Conference regular season and tournament championships, has vaulted the University of Arkansas to a No. 9 ranking in the 2020-21 Learfield IMG College Directors’ Cup standings released on Thursday by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of America (NACDA).
The Directors’ Cup tracks the nation’s most successful intercollegiate athletics programs for their performances throughout the year. The rankings released on Thursday were the first standings published in 2020-21 and reflected fall and winter championship results. Arkansas was one of four SEC programs (Kentucky, Alabama and Florida) ranked in the top-10 in the standings released on Thursday. A total of seven SEC programs are ranked in the top 25 of the current standings.
Ratified: Mu s world U20 indoor 800m record | PRESS-RELEASES
worldathletics.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from worldathletics.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Shawn Price April 23, 2021
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – In hosting its first outdoor home meet since 2019, the Arkansas Razorbacks will host a dozen schools in the John McDonnell Invitational, held this Saturday and Sunday, April 24-25, at John McDonnell Field. This will be the first home meet this season with fans allowed to attend.
“We’re excited to have a home meet outdoors,” Arkansas men’s head coach Chris Bucknam said. “We have a beautiful facility and when it’s dressed up and ready for a track meet, there’s not many places like it.”
Teams joining Arkansas this weekend include Alabama, Arkansas-Little Rock, Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Arkansas State, Central Arkansas, Friends, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma State, Oral Roberts, Tulsa, and Wichita State.
Lake Charles native Christian Edwards finishes fourth in NCAA indoor triple jump Christian Edwards took fourth in the triple jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a leap of 54-6. (Source: Twitter - @AlabamaTrack) By Brady Renard | March 16, 2021 at 2:58 PM CDT - Updated March 16 at 2:58 PM
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (KPLC) - Former Washington-Marion standout Christian Edwards continues to shine on the collegiate track as the Alabama triple jumper helped the Crimson Tide to a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark. Saturday.
Edwards took fourth in the triple jump with a leap of 54-6 (16.61m), which is the second-longest of his career behind the 54-7.25 (16.64m) leap at the 2021 SEC Championships. Edwards now holds the second and third-longest jumps in Alabama history.
Gittens, a junior from Nashville, Tennessee, starred at the NCAA DI Indoor Track & Field Championships this past weekend in Fayetteville, Arkansas. It was inside the Randal Tyson Track Center where Gittens kicked things off on Thursday by shattering the collegiate record in the pentathlon with her 4746 total, 43 more than the previous best set by Kendell Williams of Georgia in 2016. Then, Gittens became the only athlete in meet history to complete the multi-high jump double after topping the best bar of the meet at 1.90m (6-2¾). Gittens put a bow on her incredible weekend with a third-place effort in the long jump with a PR 6.68m (21-11). Count it up and that’s 26 points – the third-most by a female athlete in meet history.
vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.