Michigan
Pac-12 vs Big Ten Challenge
Wolverines Head to Tempe for Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge
3/21/2018 4:49:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
» Friday and Saturday's Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge will be Michigan's first meet of the year that will feature Wolverines from the sprints, distances, jumps and throws events at the same meet.
» Two-time All-American Taylor McLaughlin headlines the group as he looks to further lower his 200-meter career best
» 2018 Big Ten Indoor Championships scorers Aaron Baumgarten, Micah Beller, Anthony Berry, Billy Bund and Kevin Stephens Jr., will also make their 2018 outdoor debuts
THIS WEEK
Fri-Sat, March 23-24 -- Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge (Tempe, Ariz.), 2:50 p.m. MST (Fri.) / 3:30 p.m. MST (Sat.)
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- After many of its sprinters and jumpers opened up the 2018 outdoor track and field season a week ago, the national No. 24-ranked University of Michigan men's team will begin its spring campaign in earnest at the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge, which will be held at Arizona State's Sun Angel Stadium on Friday and Saturday (March 23-24).
Wolverines from the distances and throws groups will join their sprinter and jumper teammates as a nearly full Michigan contingent -- a group 29 deep headlined by All-American Taylor McLaughlin -- will square off against Indiana, No. 9 Nebraska and No. 16 Penn State from the Big Ten, and Arizona State, California and Colorado from the Pac-12. The SEC will also be represented by LSU.
The two-day invitational will feature a limited-field event program on Friday with the hammer and javelin throws, which kicks off for the men with the hammer at approximately 2:50 p.m. MT, and a Saturday schedule with a more complete complement of both track events and field events. Saturday's action for Michigan should kick off at around 3:30 p.m. MT with the discus, with the Wolverines' day on the track starting at 5:30 p.m. MT with the 110-meter hurdles.
A full listing of Wolverines slated to compete, including their events and their scheduled event times, can be found below. While the two-time outdoor All-American McLaughlin is scheduled to compete, the throws trio of Joe Ellis, Grant Cartwright and Andrew Liskowitz -- all of whom competed at the NCAA Indoor Championships two weekends ago -- and cross country All-American Ben Flanagan will not yet make their spring debuts.
Live results for the meet will become available from Arizona State as the meet approaches, and fans can follow the latest updates directly from the program's official social media channels.
WHEN TO FOLLOW THE WOLVERINES
| Wolverines at the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge | |||
| FRIDAY | |||
| Name | Event | Round | Time (MST) |
| Manning Plater | Hammer Throw | Final | 2:50 PM |
| SATURDAY | |||
| Name | Event | Round | Time (MST) |
| Manning Plater | Discus | Final | 3:30 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 5:30 PM |
| Jack Aho | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Aaron Baumgarten | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Micah Beller | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Jordy Hewitt | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Jacob Lee | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Connor Mora | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Ryan Wilkie | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Billy Bund | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:17 PM |
| Alex Klemm | High Jump | Final | 6:30 PM |
| Brandon Piwinski | High Jump | Final | 6:30 PM |
| Max Wagner | High Jump | Final | 6:30 PM |
| Vail Hartman | 400 meter dash | Final | 6:43 PM |
| Desmond Melson | 400 meter dash | Final | 6:43 PM |
| Alex Schwedt | 400 meter dash | Final | 6:43 PM |
| Khoury Crenshaw | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:58 PM |
| Desmond Nicholas | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:58 PM |
| Blake Washington | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:58 PM |
| Chase Barnett | 800 meter run | Final | 7:17 PM |
| Anthony Berry | 800 meter run | Final | 7:17 PM |
| Matt Plowman | 800 meter run | Final | 7:17 PM |
| Luke Wallace | 800 meter run | Final | 7:17 PM |
| Manning Plater | Shot Put | Final | 7:30 PM |
| Daniel Butael | Triple Jump | Final | 7:30 PM |
| Kevin Stephens Jr. | Triple Jump | Final | 7:30 PM |
| Roland Amarteifio | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 7:36 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 7:36 PM |
| Taylor McLaughlin | 200 meter dash | Final | 7:51 PM |
| Austin Benoit | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:15 PM |
| Christian Hubaker | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:15 PM |
| Andrew Lorant | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:15 PM |
| Schwedt, McLaughlin, Hartman, Melson |
4x400 relay | Final | 8:35 PM |
| Washington, Amarteifio, Nicholas, Crenshaw |
4x400 relay | Final | 8:35 PM |
| Barnett, Berry, Plowman, Wallace |
4x400 relay | Final | 8:35 PM |
MICHIGAN'S TOP CONTENDERS
• McLaughlin may not have competed in his signature 400-meter hurdles event this spring -- and will not this weekend, either -- but he is already off to a fast start. At the Miami Hurricane Invitational last weekend (March 16-17), he clocked a career-best 20.95 (+1.9m/s), becoming just the seventh Michigan man in history to crack 21 seconds in the metric event (not including those in the 220-yard dash). He will look to lower that number even further this weekend.
• Much of Michigan's corps of distance runners that put points on the board at the Big Ten Indoor Championships in late February will make their spring debuts in Tempe, Arizona on Saturday. Indoor mile scorer Anthony Berry will open up in the 800 meters; and the trio of Aaron Baumgarten, Micah Beller and Billy Bund, as well as former multiple-time scorer Connor Mora, are among the Wolverines entered at 1,500 meters.
 • Headlining the jumps are the triple-jumping duo of Kevin Stephens Jr. and Daniel Butael. Indoors, they combined for the best single-season performance by a pair of Michigan triple jumpers, and will look to replicate that success outdoors this weekend. Butael will be competing in the outdoor setting more familiar to him from his time in Israel prior to arriving at Michigan, while Stephens has momentum coming off a big lifetime best in a fourth-place finish at the Big Ten Indoor Championships.
• One of the few Wolverine sprinters who did not make their individual debut at Miami last weekend, Khoury Crenshaw will officially kick off his spring campaign in his primary 100-meter event on Saturday. He sprinted to a 10.38 time in 2017 to move up to No. 5 on the all-time Michigan list in the event, and looks for more in 2018, his last season in the Maize and Blue.
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