Michigan
NCAA East Preliminary Round
Maize and Blue to Continue Postseason at NCAA East Preliminary Round
5/20/2024 2:48:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's track and field team is set to continue with postseason competition at the NCAA East Preliminary Round hosted by Kentucky on May 22 and 24 (Wednesday and Friday).
Notes
• The Maize and Blue will send 13 athletes to Lexington, Ky. to compete in nine individual events. Berachiah Ajala (triple jump), Dubem Amene (400-meter dash), Tom Brady (10,000-meter run), Miles Brown (800-meter run), Zane Forist (discus throw), Nick Foster (1,500-meter run), Caleb Jarema (3,000-meter steeplechase), Henry Johnson (800-meter run), Trent McFarland (1,500-meter run), Jozef Meyers (3,000-meter steeplechase), Jake Wall (long jump), Tianhao Wei (triple jump), and Eli Winter (hammer throw) will look to advance to the NCAA Outdoor Championships next month.
• Twelve competitors from each individual event and 12 teams from each relay event advance from each first round site. The 2024 NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships will be hosted by Oregon at Hayward Field.
• The team is coming off a fourth-place finish at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships after hosting the event for the first time since 1988.
• Amene earned his first Big Ten outdoor title, taking the 400-meter dash crown with a time of 45.92 seconds, 0.35 seconds ahead of the runner-up.
• U-M finished 1-2-7 in the 1,500-meter run for 20 points, with McFarland (3:34.59) winning the title and Foster (3:43.64) finishing second. Johnson earned a seventh-place finish with a time of 3:46.61.
• Brady earned his second straight 10,000-meter run title, running 29:19.27 to finish just 0.03 seconds faster than the second-place finisher, and Jarema took home bronze in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (3:45.42), finishing 0.09 seconds behind the runner-up.
• Field action will kick off competition on both days, starting with the hammer throw on Wednesday at 10 a.m. and the discus throw on Friday at 1 p.m. Track action will begin with the 1,500-meter run on both days -- at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday and 5:15 p.m. on Saturday.
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