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UKTF Set to Begin SEC Outdoor Championships

UKTF Set to Begin SEC Outdoor Championships

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Broadcast: Friday | Saturday

COLUMBIA, S.C.  – – The Kentucky Track and Field teams will begin the postseason this weekend with the Southeastern Conference Championships held this year at Cregger Track on the University of South Carolina campus. 
The meet will begin on Thursday.
The coverage
Thursday’s action won’t be broadcast, but SEC Network+ will stream the action via WatchESPN/ESPN3 Friday beginning at 6:25 p.m. ET. Coverage picks back up Saturday at 3:10 p.m. ET .
Dwight Stones will handle play by play, Larry Rawson and Jill Montgomery will provide analysis and 
SportsCenter’s John Anderson will conduct the interviews.
The meet will first air on television Wednesday, May 17 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET on ESPNU.
PTtiming is handling timing and live results.

The Thursday outlook
Thursday’s action begins with the heptathlon and decathlon at 10:15 a.m. 
Kentucky has no entries in multi-events so the first event of Thursday featuring Wildcats will be the men’s hammer throw at 1 p.m. UK will also have entries in the 4 p.m. women’s hammer and the 5:30 p.m. men’s javelin.
The first track event will go off at 6 p.m. – the men’s 800 meters preliminary heats. Thursday will see six track prelims.
Points are available in the hammer throw and javelin in the field, on Thursday. The only track points available on Thursday are in the 10k.
Jacob Thomson is defending SEC Champion in the men’s 10k. He also won the 5k last year. UK’s returning women’s SEC Outdoor Champion in the 100m hurdles in Jasmine Camacho-Quinn.
Sha’Keela Saunders is the reigning SEC Indoor Long Jump Champion, but she’s not won the event outdoors. Two-time defending champion Quanesha Burks (Alabama) is the current NCAA leader in the event, with Saunders ranking second so that Friday showdown figures to be prominently featured. 

SECTF Strength
Kentucky’s women’s team is ranked No. 6 in this week’s U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association computer rankings – which are a forecast of team finish at the NCAA Championships, not the SEC Championships.
Three of the five women’s teams ranked ahead of the UK women are SEC squads (No. 1 Texas A&M, No. 4 LSU, No. 5 Arkansas), six of the top-10 are SEC teams, and a 11 SEC women’s team rank in the top-25.
Four of the top-five and six of the top-10 men’s teams are in the SEC. Twelve of the top-25 men’s teams in the country rank in the top 10. 
UK’s SEC precedent
The Kentucky women’s team has placed third at the SEC Outdoor Championships each of the past two years. UK’s best SEC outdoor finish was second place in 1981, the first year the meet was held.
A year ago Kentucky placed 10th in the men’s competition with 48.50 points.
Arkansas is the defending SEC Champion on the men’s and women’s side both indoors and outdoors. 
Indoor 2017: At the SEC Indoor Championships in February, the Kentucky women’s team tied the school record for team finish at the SEC Indoor Championships – third overall with 71 points. 
The UK women’s program finished third at the SEC indoor meet for the first time since 1989, its only other top-three finish at indoor SECs.
The UK men’s team improved by 12 points and four spots from a year ago in placing seventh with 44 points at 2017 SEC indoors. 
The SEC Championships format
Athletes earn points for their teams at the SEC Championships based on top-8 finishes on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis.
The meet features 21 events per gender, and the team with the most points at the end wins.
On the horizon
Kentucky will welcome in effect the whole of Division I this side of the Mississippi River May 25-27 for the NCAA East Preliminary Championships. UK will play host for that event for the first time. The Wildcats were the host institution for the 2014 SEC Championships at the UK Outdoor Track.

Thursday, May 11

Field Events

TIME
(ET)

EVENT

Round

UK  Entry

1:00
PM

Men’s Hammer

Prelim/Final

David
Cline

4:00
PM

Women’s Hammer

Prelim/Final

Brandi Walker

5:30
PM

Men’s Javelin

Prelim/Final

Ethan
Shalaway

Track Events

TIME
(ET)

RUNNING
EVENT

Round

UK 
Entry

5:55
PM

National Anthem

 

 

6:00
PM

Men’s 800M

Prelim

Ian Jones

6:20
PM

Women’s 800M

Prelim

 

6:40
PM

Men’s 200M

Prelim

Craig
Green, Victor Oye

7:05
PM

Women’s 200M

Prelim

Precious Hitchcock, Destiny
Carter, Kianna Gray, Javianne Oliver, Kayelle Clarke

7:30
PM

Men’s 400H

Prelim

 

7:50
PM

Women’s 400H

Prelim

Kiah Seymour, Faith Ross

8:30
PM

Men’s 10k

Final

Mick
Iacofano, Jacob Thomson

9:10
PM

Women’s 10k

Final

Avery Bussjager

 

Friday,
May 12

 Field Events

TIME
(ET)

EVENT

Round

UK Entry

2:30
PM

Men’s Long Jump

Final

Fred
Dorsey

4:00
PM

Men’s Discus

Prelim/Final

Noah Castle, CJ Lenford

6:15
PM

Women’s Pole Vault

Final

Olivia
Gruver

6:30
PM

Men’s High Jump

Prelim/Final

Xaivier McAllister, Tim
Duckworth, Justin Kretchmer

6:45
PM

Women’s Long Jump

Prelim/Final

Destiny
Carter, Sha’Keela Saunders

7:00
PM

Women’s Shot Put

Prelim/Final

 

Track Events

TIME
(ET)

EVENT

Round

UK Entry

6:10
PM

National Anthem

 

6:30
PM

Men’s 110H

Prelim

Nick Anderson, Daniel Roberts

6:50
PM

Women’s 100H

Prelim

Jacklyn
Howell, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn

7:10
PM

Men’s 1500M

Prelim

Ben Young, Kendall Muhammad

7:30
PM

Women’s 1500M

Prelim

Michelle
McKinney          

7:55
PM

Men’s 400M

Prelim

 

8:20
PM

Women’s 400M

Prelim

 

8:45
PM

Men’s 100M

Prelim

Fred Dorsey, Kenshard Hamilton

9:10
PM

Women’s 100M

Prelim

Javianne
Oliver, Destiny Carter, Kianna Gray, Kayelle Clarke

9:35
PM

Men’s 3k Steeplechase

Final

Gabe Harm, Matthew Thomas,
Brennan Fields

9:55
PM

Women’s 3k Steeplechase

Final

Katy Kunc,
Caroline McCaslin, Amy Hansen

 

Saturday,
May 13

 

Field Events

TIME
(ET)

EVENT

FIELD
EVENT

UK Entry

11:00
AM

Women’s Javelin

Prelim/Final

Sarah
Blake

1:00
PM

Men’s Triple Jump

Prelim/Final

 

1:30
PM

Women’s Discus

Prelim/Final

 

2:30
PM

Men’s Pole Vault

Final

Tim Duckworth

2:30
PM

Women’s High Jump

Final

Ellen
Ekholm

4:10
PM

Women’s Triple Jump

Prelim/Final

Marie-Josee Ebwea-Bile, Sha’Keela
Saunders

4:30
PM

Men’s Shot Put

Prelim/Final

Noah Castle,
CJ Lenford, Nik Huffman

Track Events

TIME

EVENT

Round

UK Entry

3:10
PM

National Anthem

 

3:15
PM

Men’s 4x 100M Relay

Final

UK

3:25
PM

Women’s 4x100M Relay

Final

UK

3:35
PM

Men’s 1500M

Final

TBD

3:45
PM

Women’s 1500M

Final

TBD

3:55
PM

Men’s 110H

Final

TBD

4:05
PM

Women’s 100H

Final

TBD

4:15
PM

Men’s 400M

Final

 

4:25
PM

Women’s 400M

Final

 

4:35
PM

Men’s 100M

Final

TBD

4:45
PM

Women’s 100M

Final

TBD

4:55
PM

Men’s 800M

Final

TBD

5:05
PM

Women’s 800M

Final

 

5:15
PM

Men’s 400H

Final

 

5:25
PM

Women’s 400H

Final

TBD

5:35
PM

Men’s 200M

Final

TBD

5:45
PM

Women’s 200M

Final

TBD

5:55
PM

Men’s 5000M

Final

Gabe Harm,
Mick Iacofano, Jacob Thomson

6:15
PM

Women’s 5000M

Final

Michelle McKinney, Katy Kunc,
Avery Bussjager

6:40
PM

Men’s 4x400M Relay

Final

UK

6:50
PM

Women’s 4x400M Relay

Final

UK

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The most up-to-date coverage of the UK track and field program is available via @KentuckyTrack handles on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.

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