Young Wolverines Set to Compete on Global Stage
7/16/2019 2:19:00 PM | Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Four members of the University of Michigan track and field team roster for the upcoming 2019-20 academic year will represent their countries at the international level this weekend.
Three Wolverines will compete at the Pan-American U20 Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica, this Friday through Sunday (July 19-21), with another to take part in the European U20 Championships in Sweden from Thursday through Saturday (July 18-20).
Megan Worrel will represent Team USA at Pan-Ams with U-M teammates Anne Forsyth and Aurora Rynda competing for Team Canada.
In Sweden, incoming freshman Joshua Zeller will represent his home country of Great Britain.
Rynda, a Big Ten champion and indoor All-American in her first collegiate season, will get the weekend started for the U-M contingent in Costa Rica when she races the 800-meter semifinals at 6:05 p.m. CST (8:05 p.m. EDT) on Friday. She aims to qualify for Saturday's 6:30 p.m. CST (8:30 p.m. EDT) final.
Forsyth, the 2018 Big Ten Freshman of the Year in cross country, is slated to run the 5,000-meter final Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. CST (9:30 p.m. EDT).
Worrel will close out Michigan's weekend at Pan-Ams in the 3,0000-meter steeplechase final on Sunday at 7:20 p.m. CST (9:20 p.m. EDT).
Meanwhile across the pond, Zeller will be racing against Europe's brightest young stars in Boras, Sweden.
He competes in the first of as many of three rounds of competition in the 110-meter hurdles on Thursday at 11:10 p.m. local time (5:10 a.m. EDT).
Semifinal competition will begin Friday at 12:16 p.m. local time (6:16 a.m. EDT). Should Zeller advance from the semifinals, he would race the final on Saturday evening at 7:31 p.m. local time (1:31 p.m. EDT).
As the second-fastest U20 athlete in British history in the 110-meter hurdles and the fastest U20 man in Europe this season at 13.26 (+1.8m/s), he is the pre-championships favorite for the gold medal in the event.
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