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Black and Gold Invitational
Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invite Awaits Michigan Men
3/21/2019 11:11:00 AM | Men's Track & Field
THIS WEEK
Fri-Sat., March 22-23 -- Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invitational (Nashville, Tenn.), 4 p.m. CDT / 12 p.m. CDT
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- With all event groups set to compete for the first time this outdoor season at this weekend's Vanderbilt Black and Gold Invitational, the No. 21 University of Michigan men's track and field team will continue to ramp up its spring campaign on Friday and Saturday (March 22-23).
After the sprinters and hurdlers opened up the outdoor season last weekend at Miami, this week marks the debuts of many of the Michigan distance runners, jumpers and throwers as the Wolverines compete in the two-day event in Nashville, Tennessee.
Among those in action on Friday and Saturday -- beginning at 4 p.m. CDT and noon CDT, respectively -- include former conference champion Jack Lint, near-sub-four-minute milers Chase Barnett and Ben Hill; and Big Ten hurdles finalist Roland Amarteifio.
Field events get underway Friday at 4 p.m. CDT with Lint, an NCAA Championships qualifier in the decathlon during his undergraduate career at Virginia prior to transferring to Michigan this year, in the pole vault. Later in the evening, Big Ten scorer Daniel Butael will compete for the first time outdoors in 2019 in his signature triple jump event (6 p.m. CDT).
Competition on the oval begins just over 90 minutes later at 5:35 p.m. CDT with Wolverines in the 200-meter and 1,500-meter events. Many men in the two events -- including Barnett and Hill at 1,500 meters at 6:35 p.m. CDT -- on Friday could double back for different events on Saturday.
Thrower Manning Plater and decathlete Cassidy Henshaw will kick off Saturday's schedule for Michigan at noon CDT in the discus, followed shortly thereafter at 12:30 p.m. CDT by the resumption of track races with the 2,000-meter steeplechase.
Saturday's session is expected to come to its conclusion just before 5 p.m. CDT with the 4x400 relay.
Throughout the afternoon several of the Wolverines' returning Big Ten scorers and All-Americans will make their 2019 outdoor debuts, including three-time Big Ten scorer Amarteifio in the 110-meter hurdles (1:20 p.m. CDT) and 400-meter hurdles (3:35 p.m. CDT); and Barnett and Hill at 800 meters (3:05 p.m. CDT) along with indoor distance medley relay scorers Cole Johnson and Derrick Simmons.
Wolverine fans can follow the action by way of live results from CFPI Timing, as well as live updates from the official Twitter account of Michigan track and field, @umichtrack.
The full schedule of competitors can be found below, followed by a 2019 outdoor season outlook.
When to Watch the Wolverines
| Friday (March 22) | Event | Round | Time (CT) |
| Jack Lint | Pole Vault | Final | 4:00 PM |
| Cassidy Henshaw | 200 meter dash | Final | 5:35 PM |
| Alex Schwedt | 200 meter dash | Final | 5:35 PM |
| Blake Washington | 200 meter dash | Final | 5:35 PM |
| Manning Plater | Hammer Throw | Final | 6:00 PM |
| Daniel Butael | Triple Jump | Final | 6:00 PM |
| Chase Barnett | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Dominic Dimambro | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Isaac Harding | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Ben Hill | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Jared Hill | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Christian Hubaker | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Cole Johnson | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Will Landowne | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Jacob Lee | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Joost Plaetinck | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Matt Plowman | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Derrick Simmons | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Luke Wallace | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Ryan Wilkie | 1500 meter run | Final | 6:35 PM |
| Saturday (March 23) | Event | Round | Time (CT) |
| Cassidy Henshaw | Discus | Final | 12:00 PM |
| Manning Plater | Discus | Final | 12:00 PM |
| Dominic Dimambro | Steeplechase (2000-meter) | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Jared Hill | Steeplechase (2000-meter) | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Christian Hubaker | Steeplechase (2000-meter) | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Joost Plaetinck | Steeplechase (2000-meter) | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Lewis Tate | Steeplechase (2000-meter) | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Roland Amarteifio | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:20 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:20 PM |
| Cassidy Henshaw | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:20 PM |
| Jack Lint | 110 meter hurdles | Final | 1:20 PM |
| Alex Klemm | High Jump | Final | 1:30 PM |
| Max Wagner | High Jump | Final | 1:30 PM |
| Daniel Butael | Long Jump | Final | 1:30 PM |
| Alex Schwedt | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:30 PM |
| Blake Washington | 100 meter dash | Final | 2:30 PM |
| Chase Barnett | 800 meter run | Final | 3:05 PM |
| Ben Hill | 800 meter run | Final | 3:05 PM |
| Cole Johnson | 800 meter run | Final | 3:05 PM |
| Matt Plowman | 800 meter run | Final | 3:05 PM |
| Derrick Simmons | 800 meter run | Final | 3:05 PM |
| Luke Wallace | 800 meter run | Final | 3:05 PM |
| Ryan Wilkie | 800 meter run | Final | 3:05 PM |
| Jack Lint | Javelin | Final | 3:30 PM |
| Roland Amarteifio | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 3:35 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 400 meter hurdles | Final | 3:35 PM |
| Jacob Lee | 3000 meter run | Final | 4:20 PM |
| John Tatter | 3000 meter run | Final | 4:20 PM |
| Henshaw, Lint, Marshall, Davis | 4x400 Relay | Final | 4:50 PM |
2019 Season Outlook
• 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.
• McLaughlin 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 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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