EL PASO – The UTEP track and field teams return to competition on Friday when they travel to Lincoln, Neb., for the 35th Annual Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational on the campus of the University of Nebraska.
The two-day meet is scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. (MT) with the women’s weight throw competition at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Competing on the field for the Miners on Friday afternoon are Amanda Pulido, Laura Macauley and Alexander Terran. The men’s weight throw follows immediately after with UTEP’s All-American Dimitrios Fylladitakis, Hans Eriksson and Justin Kepple participating in the event. Fylladitakis will be looking to better his NCAA provisional qualifying mark set two weeks ago at the Texas Tech Invitational.
All-American Blessing Okagbare and Gladys Nwaubani will take the track in the 60- and 200-meter dash preliminaries on Friday. Okagbare will focus on sprints this weekend after posting a NCAA automatic mark in the long jump in Lubbock, Texas.
In the 400m, it will be Siobhian Crain and Endurance Abinuwa running in the women’s race, while Anderson Mutegi, Curtis Kock and Suji Adeniyan will participate in the men’s event.
Terran Alexander will kick off Saturday’s competition in the women’s shot put and on the track, Felix Maritim will be the first one off the blocks in the mile run at 11:15 a.m. (MT).
Meet History
Started in 1975 by former NU track and field coach Frank Sevigne, the meet annually draws some of the top talent in the country to Lincoln. At last year’s meet, there were seven NCAA automatic-qualifying performances and another 41 provisional-qualifying marks. This year’s meet is expected to be just as strong as there will be seven USTFCCCA top-25 teams at the Devaney Center, including the No. 24 ranked Miner women.
