Michigan
Big Ten Indoor Championships
Amene, Brady, Foster Medal to Help Michigan Finish Eighth at B1G Indoor Championships
2/24/2024 9:49:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
Site: Geneva, Ohio (SPIRE Institute)
Event: Big Ten Indoor Championships (Day 2 of 2)
U-M Team Finish: 8th Place of 11 Teams (49 points)
Next U-M Event: Fri-Sat., March 8 -- at NCAA Championships (Boston, Mass.)
GENEVA, Ohio -- The University of Michigan men's track and field team earned three medals to close out the Big Ten Indoor Championships on Saturday (Feb. 24), with Dubem Amene, Tom Brady, and Nick Foster all earning hardware.
The Wolverines finished in eighth place with 49 total points. Wisconsin won the title with 122 points, while Nebraska (118) and Penn State (88) rounded out the top three.
Foster won the team's first medal of the day, finishing third in the mile with a time of 4:06.22. Trent McFarland placed fourth (4:07.31) and Riley Flemington placed eighth (4:09.10), with the trio combining for 12 points.
Amene was the team's next medal winner, finishing third in the 400-meter dash. His time of 46.34 seconds was just 0.01 seconds behind the second-place finisher.
Brady rounded out the team's medal winners with a third-place finish in the 3,000-meter run (7:57.85). It was Brady's second top-three finish of the weekend after earning third place in the 5,000-meter run on Friday (Feb. 23).
Camden Law earned a top-eight finish in his Big Ten Indoor Championship debut, placing seventh with a time of 1:49.99 to score the Wolverines two points.
U-M's 4x400-meter relay team of Lawrence Gilliam, Jacob Koerner, John O'Reilly, and Miles Brown earned three points after a sixth-place finish (3:10.92).
Tianhao Wei finished in eighth place in the triple jump with a mark of 15.20m (49 feet, 10.5 inches), while Aiden Felty placed ninth in the shot put with a personal-best mark of 18.06m (59 feet, three inches) to just miss the top eight. His mark is the ninth best in program history.
Amene, Brown, Foster, and McFarland were named to the All-Big Ten Second Team.
The Wolverines will close out their indoor season at the NCAA Championships on Friday ans Saturday (March 8-9) in Boston, Mass.
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