Michigan
Windy City Invitational
Wolverines to Split up, Heading to Clemson, BU, Windy City Invitational
2/8/2024 3:58:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's track and field team will take to the road this weekend, splitting up to head to three separate competitions. The Wolverines head to Chicago for the Windy City Invitational, hosted by Wisconsin, on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 9-10), Clemson, S.C., for the Tiger Paw Invitational on Friday and Saturday, and to Boston, Mass., on Saturday for the David Hemery Valentine Invitational hosted by Boston University.
Notes
• Dubem Amene will compete at the Tiger Paw Invitational, running the 400-meter dash on Friday (Feb. 9) at 4:20 p.m. and the 200-meter dash on Saturday (Feb. 10) at 1:40 p.m., with Nick Foster and Tom Brady competing at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Saturday beginning at 4:55 p.m. and the rest of the squad competing at the Windy City Invitational.
• The Maize and Blue is coming off its first road competition of 2024 at the Meyo Invitational hosted by Notre Dame on Feb. 2-3. Kepler Huntress posted two personal bests at Notre Dame, while the jumpers had a strong performance, with Jake Wall seeing a personal best in the long jump (7.40 meters/24 feet, 3.5 inches) for the seventh-best mark in the Big Ten and Berachiah Ajala set a personal best triple-jump mark (15.82m/51 feet, 11 inches). Ajala's mark was good for No. 3 in program history, No. 4 in the Big Ten, and No. 15 in the NCAA.
• In the 800-meter championship, Trent McFarland took first with a personal best 1:49.50, while Henry Johnson finished fourth (1:50.52) and John O'Reilly finished eighth in a personal-best 1:51.39.
• In the 3,000-meter open, Jack Spamer finished fifth with a time of 8:30.85, while Myles Liss-Riordan finished eighth with a time of 8:31.45. Peter Baracco ran a personal-best 8:16.33 to finish 11th in the 3,000-meter Ryan Shay race to round out the distance performances.
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