Kentucky Track and Field Set for Final Dual Meet Week at Florida and Wake Forest

LEXINGTON, Ky. – The Kentucky Wildcats are set for the final dual meet week of the 2025-26 season this week with the annual Tom Jones Memorial Invitational and the Wake Forest Invitational on April 16-18.

This week, UK will send 39 student-athletes to Gainesville, Fla. to compete across 28 total events, as well as 22 athletes to Winston-Salem, N.C. for the Wake Forest Invite to compete in eight events.

Last time out, the Wildcats totaled six event wins, one school record, two national records and 12 top 10 program marks in an impressive outing at the Texas Relays. Hurdlers Vanice Kerubo Nyagisera and Rukia Nusra Omulisia provided the national records, breaking the Kenya women’s 100m hurdles and 400m hurdles records. Emmi Scales, Janet Jepkemboi Amimo and the women’s relay team highlighted the event winners in Austin.

Last week, Kentucky sent 15 student-athletes to the Tennessee Invitational in Knoxville, Tenn., highlighted by A’Laji Bradley winning the women’s 400m and setting a new personal best time of 51.92, the ninth-fastest time in program history. Senior Chelsea Wetzel posted the second top 10 program of the week, placing third in the women’s pole vault invite event with the fifth-best mark in Kentucky history at 4.12m/13-06.25.

The Tom Jones Memorial Invitational will open tomorrow, starting with Julia Gunnell and Dahlia Beasley competing in the opening event of the women’s heptathlon.

The Wake Forest Invitational opens at 5:45 p.m. ET with Morgan Dick competing in the women’s 3000m steeplechase.

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