Michigan
Windy City Invitational
Windy City Invite to Pose Final Big Test of Indoor Regular Season
2/8/2022 3:38:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
THIS WEEK
Fri. Sat., Feb. 11-12 -- at Wisconsin Windy City Invitational (Chicago, Ill.)
Friday, Feb. 11 -- at Windy City Invitational, 12Â p.m. CST
Live Results
Saturday, Feb. 12 -- at Windy City Invitational, 11:30 a.m. CST
Live Results
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- For the last time before the Big Ten Indoor Championships in two weekends' time, the University of Michigan men's track and field will test itself as a full unit against top-tier competition as it competes Friday and Saturday (Feb. 11-12) at the Wisconsin Windy City Invitational in Chicago, Ill.
The Wolverines -- bringing its full complement of sprinters, distance runners, jumpers and throwers -- will compete for the first time at the new Track and Field Center at Gately Park against conference foes Illinois, Michigan State and Wisconsin, as well as reigning national champion Oregon. Also scheduled to compete are Arizona, Howard, South Florida and Tulsa.
Friday (Feb. 11) kicks off with field event action at noon CST, followed by events on the banked 200-meter track starting at 4 p.m. CST, with all events expected to conclude by 7:30 p.m. CST.
Action is set to resume Saturday (Feb. 12) at 11:30 a.m. CST in the field, with the track program scheduled for a 12:50 p.m. CST start. The meet will tentatively conclude prior to 4 p.m. CST.
Among those expected to represent Michigan in Chicago include All-Americans Tom Brady (5,000 meters), Devin Meyrer (5,000 meters) and Christian Hubaker (3,000 meters); 2021 NCAA qualifiers Joost Plaetinck (5,000 meters) and Joshua Zeller (60-meter hurdles); Big Ten medalist Nick Foster (mile); and 2022 standouts Bera Ajala (triple jump), Dubem Amene (200 and 400 meters), Miles Brown (800 meters), Cassidy Henshaw (high jump), Cole Johnson (800 meters), Mason Mahacek (60-meter hurdles, long jump, shot put), Job Mayhue (60-meter hurdles) and Oli Raimond (mile).
Multiple school records may be in peril as they and their teammates look to make the most of their last road trip ahead of the Big Ten Championships in Geneva, Ohio, on Feb. 25-26. One school record has already fallen in 2022, courtesy of Brown's 1:16.98 performance over 600 meters last month.
Meyrer already holds the school record at 5,000 meters and will race the distance again, with Brady also in the running as the No. 8 man in school history.
Amene came up just .04 seconds shy of the 400-meter school record two weekends ago in his 46.46 clocking, and will take another go at it on Saturday. He also is less than a third of a second shy of the 20.99 school record at 200 meters, which he is slated to contest Friday evening.
Zeller is just over a tenth of a second off the 7.64 school record in the 60-meter hurdles set by two-time Olympian and NCAA champion Jeff Porter.
The full time schedule of when and in which events the Wolverines will be competing will be posted when the schedule is finalized.
Live results will be available via Lake Shore Timing. Updates also will be posted throughout the weekend on the official @umichtrack social media channels.
Team Outlook & Notes
• Now under the guidance of Kevin Sullivan in his first year as the director of track and field/cross country for the University of Michigan, the Wolverine men are coming off of a seventh-place finish at the 2021 edition of the Big Ten Indoor Championships. The Wolverines do not return any conference champions, but do have a returning indoor medalist in Nick Foster as well as multiple All-Americans. In total, Michigan returns student-athletes who combined to score 36 of its 52 points.
• Returning All-Americans: Tom Brady (indoor 3,000 meters), Tom Dodd (indoor mile); Christian Hubaker (outdoor steeplechase); Devin Meyrer (cross country, indoor 5,000 meters);
• Returning Individual Big Ten Indoor Championships scorers: Tom Brady (5,000 meters), Tom Dodd (mile), Nick Foster (mile, 3,000 meters), Devin Meyrer (5,000 meters), Mason Mahacek (heptathlon x2), Joshua Zeller (60-meter hurdles x2), Cassidy Henshaw (high jump), Job Mayhue (2019 60-meter hurdles), Will Landowne (2019 3,000 meters)
• Current school record-holders: Devin Meyrer (indoor 5,000 meters), Miles Brown (indoor 600 meters)
• Delivering on the promise of being the only teenager indoors in the history of the world to run sub-21.30 (21.29) at 200 meters and sub-1:17.50 (1:17.41) at 600 meters, Dubem Amene dropped a 46.46 performance over 400 meters at Kentucky two weekends ago to move to No. 2 in school history -- just .04 seconds off the school record from Taylor McLaughlin in 2016 -- and No. 11 in the NCAA.
• Amene's stellar 600-meter run came one week after teammate Miles Brown broke the school record with a 1:16.98 run of his own, followed by teammate Cole Johnson in 1:17.98. Johnson showed similar strength at the 800-meter distance two weekends ago at Indiana with a 1:49.97 performance that moved him to No. 6 in school history.
• Joshua Zeller continues to rank among the Big Ten's and NCAA's fastest 60-meter hurdlers, coming off a runner-up finish in a strong field at Kentucky. With a best of 7.76 seconds that ranks him No. 2 in the conference and No. 14 nationally, he has yet to run slower than 7.90 this season. At No. 2 in school history, he stands behind only two-time Olympian and 2007 NCAA champion Jeff Porter at 7.64.
• The Michigan men's distance squad ran well in its biggest outing yet at Indiana two weekends ago, headlined by a nearly three-second career-best 7:55.49 over 3,000 meters from Tom Brady that ranks No. 4 in the conference, No. 41 nationally and No. 8 in school history. Oli Raimond also dipped below eight minutes for the first time in his career at 7:59.43, and both Nick Foster and Austin Remick set new personal records in the mile at 4:01.60 and 4:04.55, respectively.
• Mason Mahacek set a big new personal best in the heptathlon at Kentucky to re-establish himself as a perennial scoring threat at the Big Ten Championships, posting a two-day, seven-event score of 5,531 points that ranks fifth in the conference this year and 20th nationally. Along the way, he set new career bests in the 60-meter hurdles (8.70 seconds), indoor long jump (6.76m / 22 feet, 2.25 inches) and pole vault (4.90m / 16-0.75). The performance moved him to No. 4 in school history.
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Friday, Feb. 18 -- host, Silverston Invitational (U-M Indoor Track Building), TBA
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