Buffs Set to Open Outdoor Season at Two Meets

Friday, March 22

San Diego, Calif.

All Day

Colorado

Day 1

March 21, 2024 | Track and Field

By: Lauren Cawley, CU Athletic Communications

BOULDER—After the Jerry Quiller Classic was canceled, the Colorado track and field program is set to kick off its 2023-24 outdoor season this weekend, with athletes split between the CSU Pueblo Spank Blasing Invitational and the Aztec Invitational.

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CU will send 39 athletes to compete in Pueblo, while 20 combined events and field athletes will head to San Diego.

On Friday, Lucas Williams will represent Colorado at the Pueblo Spank Blasing Invitational. He will compete in the men's hammer throw at 11:00 a.m., followed by the discus at 1:00 p.m. Meghan Whyrick will compete in the women's shot put following the men's event.

Saturday will begin at 10:00 a.m. with Kole Mathinson in the men's 5000-meter. Conner Wingfield and Tyler Scholl will follow in the men's 3000-meter steeplechase at 11:05 a.m.

The distance events will continue as nine men, including Lukas Haug, Noah Hibbard, Caleb Niednagel, Drew Costelow, Shaw Powell, Charlie Welch, Ryan Lindrud, Jack Nauman, and Nolan Hoffman, will represent the Buffs in the 1500-meter at 12:10 p.m. Bailey Hertenstein, Caroline Mehlhorn, and Sierra Parks will also compete in the women's 1500 at 12:35 p.m. Reese Renz returns to the track in the women's 100-meter hurdles at 1:20 p.m.

Tyler Williams, Luke Dry, Nick Gehring, and Nick Nuhfer will toe the line for the men's 400-meter at 1:45 p.m. Luc Andrada and Johnny Homsy will compete at 2:15 p.m. in the men's 100-meter.

Six runners will represent the Buffs in the men's 800-meter, including Isaiah Givens, Ben Greene, Reese Kilbarger-Stumpf, Jacob Culig, Antonio Camacho-Bucks, and George Wilson at 2:55 p.m. Elliot Pribramsky, Whitney Valenti, and Emma Hadley will follow in the women's 800 at 3:10 p.m.

Garrett Nelson, Cole Romig, and Danny Tragarz will compete in the men's 400-meter hurdles at 3:30 p.m. Emma Pollak and Joy Moorer will conclude the day for the women in the 400 hurdles, starting at 3:45 p.m.

The trio of Ian Gilmore, Andrada, and Homsy will then compete in the men's 200-meter at 3:55 p.m. Two men's 4x400-meter relay squads will close out the day at 5:15 p.m. Squad A will include Williams, Gilmore, Dry, and Gehring, while Squad B will feature Nuhfer, Nelson, Romig, and Tragarz.

Amanda Opp and Bella Braun will open the weekend for the Buffs at the Aztec Invitational on Friday in the women's hammer throw at 3:00 p.m. MT. Matt Ward, Isiah Bouchard, and Laurence Atkinson will follow, competing in the men's event at 5:30 p.m. MT.

Avery McMullen, coming off an All-American first-team honors performance in the pentathlon at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships, will compete in three events for the Buffs. She will start her weekend on Saturday in the women's long jump, followed by the 100-meter hurdles, and conclude in the women's 200-meter.

The Buffs will also compete on Saturday, starting at 10:00 a.m. MT with the javelin, featuring Jada Green.

Alongside McMullen, the long jump will include Kara Lucky, Eva Bruce, Troy Colleran, Nick Bianco, John Swabik, Aidan Christiansen, and Drake Miller. Gustavo Alfonso will compete in the men's javelin at noon MT. Allie Routledge and Riley Ward will jump in the women's high jump.

McMullen and Bruce will toe the line for the women's 100-meter hurdles at 1:15 p.m. MT. Obi Osafo-Mensah and Opp will compete in the women's discus at 2:00 p.m. MT.

Bianco, Colleran, Swabik, and Miller will also compete in the men's 110-meter hurdles and the 400-meter race. The 110-hurdles will start at 1:35 p.m. MT, and the 400 will occur at 2:05 p.m. MT.

Noah Bouchard will be the lone Buff competing in the men's high jump, beginning at 2:30 p.m. MT. Lauren Whyrick will compete in the women's shot put at 4:30 p.m. MT and the men's discus, featuring Ward, Atkinson, Colleran, Bianco, Miller, and Swabik.

The day will close with McMullen, Bruce, and Routledge in the women's 200 at 4:45 p.m.

Up Next

During Colorado's spring break, the Buffs will have a hectic schedule. The CU track and field team will divide their efforts next week, with some athletes heading to Louisiana for the Battle on the Bayou in Baton Rouge, others going to California for the Stanford Invitational in Palo Alto, and the rest participating in in-state meets at the CSU Pueblo Open in Pueblo and the Jack Christiansen Invitational in Fort Collins.