Colorado
Kit Mayer Invite
Buffs Set to Compete at Kit Mayer Invite
April 06, 2023 | Track and Field
Colorado will have large contingent at the meet in Golden
BOULDER — The University of Colorado Track and Field team continues the early outdoor season, competing at the Kit Mayer Invite hosted by the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colo.
Colorado has 25 total marks in the top 50 of the NCAA West region this outdoor season, with 22 of those marks coming across four meets last weekend.
The meet will begin on Friday with the field events. Long jump and javelin will open the meet followed by the shot put. Avery McMullen, Kara Lucyk, Allie Routledge and Riley Burkey will jump for the women, while Aidan Christiansen, Jackson Meyer, Nicholas Bianco and Troy Colleran will go for the men. The Buffs will have two competitors in the men's javelin, Gustavo Alfonso and Lars Atkinson.
Lauren Whyrick, Meghan Whyrick and Amanda Opp will represent CU in the women's shot put, while Lucas Williams, Ames Newman and Isaiah Bouchard are scheduled to compete for the men.
Saturday's field events start with the hammer followed by the discus. Opp, Jane Powers, Isabella Braun, Gya'ni Sami, and Obi Osafo-Mensah will compete for the women. Tyler Sconce, Matt Ward, Atkinson, Williams, Newman, Bouchard, Bianco and Colleran will be in for the men.
The track events will kick off with the men's 4x100 relay followed by Alex Baca in the men's 1500-meters. Alisa Meraz-Fishbein and Anna Shults will run for the women. CU will have five athletes in the men's 400-meters, while Jaida Drame and Grace Jenkins will be the Buffs' lone representatives in the women's 400. Â
Three women will run in the 100-meter hurdles, while two men will race in the 100-meters. Noah Hibbard, Carley Bennett and Elliot Pribramsky will run in the men's and women's 800-meters, respectively.
Luke Dry, Garrett Nelson and Colton Romig will partake in the men's 400-meter hurdles, while Kara Lucyk and Reese Renz will run on the women's side.
Colorado will have five entries in the field of 38 in the men's 200-meters. Jaida Drame will be CU's lone runner in the women's 200.
Charlie Welch will be CU's lone representative in the men's steeplechase.
Later in the evening Ben Greene, Noah Hibbard, Welch and Ryan Lindrud will team in the men's 4x400 relay.
Admission is free. Fans will have to pay for on-campus parking on Friday (follow instructions on signs in the lot), but parking on Saturday is free.
The meet will be streamed online at http://www.minesathletics.com/tv.
| Day | Meet | Time (MT) | Event | Athlete(s) |
| Friday | Kit Mayer Invite | 3:00:00 PM | Men's Javelin | Gustavo Alfonso & Laurence Atkinson |
| 7-Apr | 3:00:00 PM | Women's Long Jump | McMullen, Lucyk, Routledge, Burkey | |
| 3:30:00 PM | Men's Long Jump | Christiansen, Meyer, Bianco, Colleran | ||
| 4:00:00 PM | Women's Shot Put | Lauren Whyrick, Meghan Whyrick, & Amanda Opp | ||
| 4:30:00 PM | Men's Shot Put | Williams, Newman, & Bouchard | ||
| Saturday | Kit Mayer Invite | 10:00:00 AM | Women's Hammer | Amanda Opp. Powers, Braun, Sami, & Osafo-Mensah |
| 8-Apr | 10:30:00 AM | Men's Hammer | Sconce, Ward, Atkinson, Williams, Newman, Bouchard | |
| 11:00:00 AM | Women's Discus | Osafo-Mensah, Opp, Sami | ||
| 11:30:00 AM | Men's Discus | Ward, Atkinson, Williams, Newman, Bouchard, Bianco, Colleran | ||
| 1:30:00 PM | Men's 4x100 | Gilmore, Williams, Beckham, Nuhfer | ||
| 1:40:00 PM | Men's 1500 | Alex Baca | ||
| 1:55:00 PM | Womens 1500 | Meraz-Fishbein, Shults | ||
| 2:10:00 PM | Men's 400 | Milholen, Nuhfer, Dry, Lindrud & Greene | ||
| 2:20:00 PM | Women's 400 | Jenkins, Drame | ||
| 2:55:00 PM | Women's 100H | Renz, Routledge & Burkey | ||
| 3:10:00 PM | Men's 100 | Beckham & Bianco | ||
| 3:30:00 PM | Men's 800 | Noah Hibbard | ||
| 3:40:00 PM | Women's 800 | Valenti, Hadley, bennett, Pribramsky | ||
| 4:00:00 PM | Men's 400H | Nelson, Romig, Dry | ||
| 4:10:00 PM | Women's 400H | Renz, Lucyk | ||
| 4:25:00 PM | Men's 200 | Williams, Milholen, Gilmore, Beckham & Nuhfer | ||
| 4:45:00 PM | Women's 200 | Jaida Drame | ||
| 5:10:00 PM | Men's Steeplechase | Charles Welch | ||
| 5:50:00 PM | Men's 4x400 | Greene, Hibbard, Welch, Lindrud |
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