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Published on March 8, 2021 at 12:04 am
A week after sweeping the 2021 Big 12 Indoor Championships, the Texas track and field team opened the outdoor season this past weekend by hosting the Longhorn Invitational. The Longhorns won 13 individual events and easily earned the men’s and women’s team titles in their first outdoor meet since June 2019.
The meet included an array of fresh and familiar faces with dominating performances backed by several athletes’ personal bests.
The women’s shot put kicked off the meet with a sweep. Senior Elena Bruckner made her season debut with a 16.81m/55-2 shot an outdoor personal best. Bruckner also won the women’s discus throw with a mark of 54.24m/177-11. Sophomore Marilyn Nwora finished closely behind her in shot put with 15.43m/50-7.5 effort, earning second. Freshman Kiana Lowery earned the last spot on the podium with a mark of 15.09m/49-6.25.
An exhausted Sandy Blakeslee after running in the 1985 Southwest Conference Championships.
One Sunday this past December, Texas women’s cross country assistant coach PattiSue Plumer settled in at her dining room table in downtown Austin to Zoom with her athletes. The table was new, purchased precisely for this purpose virtual coaching and so was the apartment. She had recently moved to one of the freshly vacated, more spacious lower-level units within her complex to avoid catching COVID-19 on her daily elevator ride down from the 26th floor.
Plumer always arrived early
to these weekly meetings with her team, so she was momentarily staring back at her own reflection as she sipped from a can of Berry La Croix. These careful adjustments to everyday routines defined her year, and as the squares appeared with her runners Maddie Vondra, with a giant Longhorn emblem painted on the wall behind her, Beth Ramos with a cat meowing faintly offscreen, and Kathryn Gillespie, who occasionally