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Hurricane Invitational
Hurricane Invitational to Kick Off Michigan Men's Outdoor Season
3/14/2019 2:02:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
» The outdoor track and field season begins Friday and Saturday for the Michigan men, who will field a lineup of sprinters and combined-event athletes at the Hurricane Invitational.
» The Wolverines' deep corps of hurdlers, including Big Ten Indoor Championships finalists Roland Amarteifio, Sierra Hendrix-Williams and Job Mayhue, as well as decathlete Jack Lint, headline the Michigan competitors for the weekend.
THIS WEEK
Fri-Sat., March 15-16 -- Miami (Fla.) Hurricane Invitational (Coral Gables, Fla.), 12:30 p.m. | 1:05 p.m.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Spring still may be less than a week away, but the spring outdoor track and field season begins this weekend as select members of the University of Michigan men's track and field team compete Friday and Saturday (March 15-16) at the Miami (Fla.) Hurricane Invitational.
After a historic indoor season, hurdlers Roland Amarteifio, Sierra Hendrix-Williams and Job Mayhue will lead the Wolverines and its delegation of sprinters and combined-event athletes into the outdoor campaign in the two-day event at Miami's Cobb Stadium
Decathletes Jack Lint and Cassidy Henshaw will be Michigan's only competitors on Friday in the discus starting at 12:30 p.m., with a more full day scheduled for Saturday starting at 1:05 p.m. The weekend is expected to conclude by 5:10 p.m. on Saturday with the 4x400 relay finale.
Live results will be available through Delta Timing, and updates throughout the day can be found on the official Michigan track and field Twitter account, @umichtrack.
When last the trio of Amarteifio, Hendrix-Williams and Mayhue competed at the Big Ten Indoor Championships in Ann Arbor, all three scored in the 60-meter hurdles final and became the first Michigan trio to run faster than eight seconds in the event at the same meet in school history.
Hendrix-Williams and Mayhue will compete in the 110-meter hurdles at 1:30 p.m. with teammates Noah Caudy and Lint -- who was fifth in the heptathlon at Big Ten Indoors -- while Amarteifio will team up with Caudy and Sean Marshall to run the 400-meter hurdles at 3:25 p.m.
Amarteifio made the Big Ten Outdoor Championships final in both events a year ago, while Hendrix-Williams was a finalist in the 110 hurdles.
In the non-hurdle races, Alex Schwedt will lead a group at 400 meters at 2:05 p.m. in his first race since clocking 1:19.23 at Big Ten Indoors for the No. 10 spot in school history over 600 meters. He will be joined by Big Ten indoor 400-meter finalist Desmond Melson in the five-man quarter-mile contingent.
The full schedule of competitors can be found below, followed by a 2019 outdoor season outlook.
When to Watch the Wolverines
| Friday (March 15) | Event | Round | Time (ET) |
| Cassidy Henshaw | Discus | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Jack Lint | Discus | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Saturday (March 16) | Event | Round | Time (ET) |
| Carpenter, McCarthy, Hagen, Nicholas | 4x100 relay | Final | 1:05 PM |
| Melson, Davis, Washington, Amarteifio | 4x100 relay | Final | 1:05 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:30 PM |
| Sierra Hendrix-Williams | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:30 PM |
| Jack Lint | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:30 PM |
| Job Mayhue | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:30 PM |
| Ian Davis | 400 meter dash | Final | 2:05 PM |
| Vail Hartman | 400 meter dash | Final | 2:05 PM |
| Desmond Melson | 400 meter dash | Final | 2:05 PM |
| Alex Schwedt | 400 meter dash | Final | 2:05 PM |
| Blake Washington | 400 meter dash | Final | 2:05 PM |
| Jack Lint | Shot Put | Final | 2:30 PM |
| Josiah Carpenter | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:35 PM |
| Stephen Hagen | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:35 PM |
| Sierra Hendrix-Williams | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:35 PM |
| Cassidy Henshaw | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:35 PM |
| Joe McCarthy | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:35 PM |
| Desmond Nicholas | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:35 PM |
| Roland Amarteifio | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 3:25 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 3:25 PM |
| Sean Marshall | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 3:25 PM |
| Josiah Carpenter | 200 meter dash | Final | 4:05 PM |
| Stephen Hagen | 200 meter dash | Final | 4:05 PM |
| Joe McCarthy | 200 meter dash | Final | 4:05 PM |
| Desmond Nicholas | 200 meter dash | Final | 4:05 PM |
| Lint, Henshaw, Amarteifio, Davis | 4x400 relay | Final | 5:00 PM |
| Hartman, Melson, Schwedt, Washington | 4x400 relay | Final | 5:00 PM |
Wolverine Bites
• The Michigan men are coming off a narrow fourth-place finish at last year's Big Ten Championships that saw them just four points out of second place with 84 points.
• Though they lose a pair of Big Ten champions in Aaron Baumgarten and Ben Flanagan, they still return nearly half of their points from a year ago. Leading the way are two-time 400-meter hurdles champion Taylor McLaughlin and former hammer throw winner Joe Ellis, who was second a year ago.
• Also returning are Andrew Liskowitz, the third-place shot putter outdoors a year ago who went on to win the indoor title in 2019; Roland Amarteifio, who was a double scorer both in the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles; and Anthony Berry, who has scored at the past three Big Ten Championships, including both indoors and outdoors.
• After failing to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships a year ago, hammer thrower Ellis is looking to bounce back in a big way in 2019. Coming off his third-consecutive first team All-America performance in the indoor weight throw, he will now take aim at a second first team honor in the hammer throw after finishing eighth in 2017.
• With an indoor Big Ten title, indoor and outdoor school records, and second team All-America honors both indoors and out, Liskowitz is pursuing the few career accolades that are missing from his resume. He will look to pair his indoor Big Ten title with a matching outdoor crown, as well as earn his first first team All-America honor. He was third in the shot put for the second year in a row at last year's Big Ten Outdoor Championships.
• McLaughlin pulled triple-duty at last year's Big Ten Outdoor Championships, winning the 400-meter hurdles title and running legs of the seventh- and eighth-place 4x100 and 4x400 relays, respectively. He went on to take fifth at the NCAA Championships and make the USATF Outdoor Championships final. With just this last season remaining in his prestigious career, he is looking to upgrade that first team All-America honor -- of which he already owns two -- to a national title.
• He will be joined in the hurdles crew by the likes of Amarteifio, Sierra Hendrix-Williams, Job Mayhue, Noah Caudy and Sean Marshall. Amarteifio and Hendrix-Williams combined to make three hurdles finals at the 2018 Big Ten Outdoor Championships, and those two and Mayhue all advanced to the 2019 Big Ten Indoor 60-meter hurdles final.
• After a stellar freshman indoor campaign that saw him come within .01 seconds of the freshman record at 60 meters, Asani Hampton will look to make more history outdoors in the 100. He has a time of 10.26 to his name from his high school days that would have placed him third in the 2018 Big Ten Outdoor final.
• A young distance corps is looking for a big breakthrough during the 2019 outdoor season. In addition to three-time scorer Berry, the Wolverines will be led by cross country All-American Jack Aho and near-sub-four-milers Chase Barnett and Ben Hill. All three men registered times that rank top-15 all-time in school history during the indoor season, with Aho and Hill doing so in multiple events. Aho ran historically fast at 3,000 and 5,000 meters, while Hill checked in top-15 both at 800 meters and in the mile.
• Though his 2019 indoor season was derailed due to injury, high jumper Brandon Piwinski will look to reprise and improve upon his scoring performance from last year's Big Ten Championships that ultimately propelled him to an appearance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
• In his lone heptathlon of the indoor season, graduate transfer Jack Lint finished fifth at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and just missed qualifying for the NCAA Championships as the No. 20 man in the country. He will look to get a couple decathlon performance to his name this spring and try to follow in the footsteps of 2017 Big Ten champion and first team All-American Steven Bastien. Lint was an NCAA Championships qualifier for Virginia during his undergraduate career.
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