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Pac-12 vs Big Ten Challenge
Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge on Deck for Michigan Women
3/21/2018 5:14:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
» Friday and Saturday's Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge will be Michigan's first meet of the year featuring Wolverines from the sprints, distances, jumps and throws events at the same meet.
» Among the Wolverines in action on Friday and Saturday are All-Americans Jade Harrison, Aaron Howell, Jamie Morrissey and Haley Meier
» 2018 Big Ten Indoor scorers Claire Borchers, Micaela Degenero and Hannah Meier will also make their 2018 outdoor debuts.
THIS WEEK
Fri-Sat, March 23-24 -- Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge (Tempe, Ariz.), 1 p.m. MST (Fri.) / 5:15 p.m. MST (Sat.)
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- With a sprinters-only crew having already opened up the 2018 outdoor season last weekend, the national No. 18-ranked University of Michigan women's track and field team will begin the spring campaign in earnest at the Pac-12/Big Ten Challenge at Arizona State's Sun Angel Stadium on Friday and Saturday (March 23-24).
Michigan's distance runners, jumpers and throwers will team up with their sprinter teammates for the first time this year as the Wolverines will field its fullest squad of the outdoor season to date -- 28 women, including All-Americans Jade Harrison, Aaron Howell, Jamie Morrissey and Haley Meier -- against a field that includes Indiana, No. 16 Nebraska and Penn State from the Big Ten, and No. 14 Arizona State, California and No. 15 Colorado from the Pac-12. The SEC will also be represented by No. 9 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 women with the hammer at 1 p.m. MST, and a Saturday schedule with a more complete complement of both track events and field events. Saturday's action for Michigan will begin in the field with the high jump at 4:30 p.m. MST on the track with the 100-meter hurdles at 5:15 p.m. MST.
A full list of Wolverines slated to compete, including their events and their scheduled event times, can be found below.
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) |
| Courtney Jacobsen | Hammer Throw | Final | 1:00 PM |
| Aaron Howell | Javelin | Final | 6:20 PM |
| SATURDAY | |||
| Name | Event | Round | Time (MST) |
| Katt Miner | High Jump | Final | 4:30 PM |
| Aaron Howell | 100 meter hurdles | Final | 5:15 PM |
| Michaiah Thomas | 100 meter hurdles | Final | 5:15 PM |
| Aaron Howell | Shot Put | Final | 5:30 PM |
| Marias, Johnson, Morgan, Harrison |
4x100 relay | Final | 5:53 PM |
| Sydney Badger | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Rachel Barrett | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Rachel Coleman | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Meg Darmofal | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Micaela DeGenero | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Kathryn House | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Haley Meier | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Jena Metwalli | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Jamie Morrissey | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Faith Reynolds | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:04 PM |
| Chloe Foster | 400 meter dash | Final | 6:31 PM |
| Julia Hall | 400 meter dash | Final | 6:31 PM |
| Akili Echols | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Jade Harrison | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Torisa Johnson | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Meghan Marias | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Lauren Morgan | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Michaiah Thomas | 100 meter dash | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Mallory Barrett | 800 meter run | Final | 7:06 PM |
| Meg Darmofal | 800 meter run | Final | 7:06 PM |
| Carola Jansohn | 800 meter run | Final | 7:06 PM |
| Jena Metwalli | 800 meter run | Final | 7:06 PM |
| Jamie Morrissey | 800 meter run | Final | 7:06 PM |
| Chloe Foster | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 7:29 PM |
| Jenna Reid | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 7:29 PM |
| Akili Echols | 200 meter dash | Final | 7:43 PM |
| Julia Hall | 200 meter dash | Final | 7:43 PM |
| Jade Harrison | 200 meter dash | Final | 7:43 PM |
| Aaron Howell | 200 meter dash | Final | 7:43 PM |
| Torisa Johnson | 200 meter dash | Final | 7:43 PM |
| Lauren Morgan | 200 meter dash | Final | 7:43 PM |
| Claire Borchers | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:04 PM |
| Kayla Keane | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:04 PM |
| Haley Meier | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:04 PM |
| Hannah Meier | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:04 PM |
| Madeline Trevisan | 3000 meter run | Final | 8:04 PM |
| Badger, M. Barrett, DeGenero, Jansohn |
4x400 relay | Final | 8:27 PM |
MICHIGAN'S TOP CONTENDERS
• The Michigan mid-distance crew will be strongly represented in Tempe, Arizona, with not only All-American miler Haley Meier and All-Big Ten steeplechaser Claire Borchers making their 2018 outdoor debuts at 1,500 meters, but also All-American Jamie Morrissey suiting up in the Maize and Blue for the first time since finishing 22nd at the NCAA Cross Country Championships. All three women scored at last May's Big Ten Outdoor Championships.
• After having a career-best indoor season in the five-event pentathlon, Howell will undergo her first competitions of the spring in preparation for the seven-event heptathlon -- an event in which she is the reigning Big Ten champion. This past indoor season saw her score a significant lifetime best in the shot put, which is the lone event among the four she will contest this weekend that she undertook during the winter. She will also run the 200 meters and the 100-meter hurdles, as well as throw the javelin.
• Harrison made a big impression in her first race of the outdoor season last weekend at Miami (March 17), blazing to a career-best 11.64 (-0.1m/s) over 100 meters. That time has only been topped by five women in Michigan history under any wind condition, and by only three under wind-legal conditions (+2.0m/s wind or less). She also anchored the 4x100 relay team to within two-thirds of a second from the school record, and joined forces with Meghan Marias, Torisa Johnson and Lauren Morgan to clock 45.68 -- just shy of the 45.01 run by Michigan at the 1998 Big Ten Championships.
• After climbing up the all-time U-M indoor list in the weight throw to No. 3 in 2018, Courtney Jacobsen will take her first attempt of the spring at moving from No. 2 to No. 1 in school history in the hammer throw. Jacobsen's first outdoor collegiate competition came at this very meet one year ago as she tossed 59.64m (195 feet, 8 inches) to move within 110 centimeters of the U-M record 60.74m (199-3) posted by April Phillips in 2003.
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