Kentucky Track and Field Begins 2017-18 at Hoosier Open
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – The Kentucky track and field teams will put their fall training to the test at one meet before taking a break for final exams, in addition to the winter holidays, on Friday at the Hoosier Open inside Gladstein Fieldhouse.
Indiana will provide live results. The meet is slated to begin at 3:45 p.m. ET with the women’s weight throw. Track events start at 4:30 p.m. with the women’s 60-meter hurdles preliminary heats.
The Wildcats will begin the season in early-December for the sixth year in a row. The Hoosier open serves as a measuring stick to assess before the Wildcats venture off for the Winter holiday break following next week’s final exams.
Many teams do not begin their indoor track and field season until January.
In any event the name of the game all regular season in indoor track and field is qualifying for the NCAA Championships, which will be contested for the second year in a row at Texas A&M’s Gilliam Indoor Track, March 9-10. Gilliam Indoor will also be the site for the Southeastern Conference Championships, Feb. 24-25.
The top-16 marks in the nation by declared competitors in individual events and the top-12 marks by relay teams achieved during the 2017-18 season are accepted into the NCAA Championships. Last Friday, the first day in December, was the first day athletes could record marks eligible for NCAA Championships qualification.
Last season a few Wildcats recorded NCAA qualifying marks right off the bat at the Hoosier Open.
Last season the Kentucky women’s team placed third and the men’s team was 11th at the SEC Indoor Championships. The UK women’s team was sixth, and the men’s team 22nd at the NCAA Indoor Championships.
Kentucky will next host its first of two indoor meets inside Nutter Field House, the Kentucky Invitational on Jan. 12.
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Hoosier Open – Schedule and UK entries Friday, Dec. 7, 2017 |
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3:45 p.m. |
Women’s weight throw |
Nicole Fautsch |
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Men’s Weight Throw (30 min after Women’s WT) |
Logan Bryer |
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Women’s Shot Put (30 min after Men’s WT) |
Nicole Fautsch |
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Men’s Shot Put (30 min after women’s SP) |
Nikolas Huffman Noah Castle CJ Lenford |
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4:30 p.m. |
Women’s 60m Hurdle Trials |
Celera Barnes |
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4:40 p.m. |
Men’s 60m Hurdle Trials |
Fred Dorsey |
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4:50 p.m. |
Women’s 60mTrials |
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5 p.m. |
Men’s 60m Trials |
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5 p.m. |
Women’s Long Jump |
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Men’s LJ (30 min after W LJ) |
Tim Duckworth |
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Women’s Triple Jump (30 min after Men’s LJ) |
Marie-Josee Ebwea-Bile Latavia Coombs |
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Men’s Triple Jump (30 min after women’s TJ) |
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5 p.m. |
Women’s Pole Vault |
Olivia Gruver Nicole Bagby |
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5:05 p.m. |
Women’s Mile |
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5:15 p.m. |
Men’s Mile |
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5:25 p.m. |
Women’s 60m Hurdle Finals |
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn |
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5:30 p.m. |
Men’s 60m Hurdle Finals |
Tim Duckworth |
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5:35 p.m. |
Women’s 60m Finals |
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5:40 p.m. |
Men’s 60m Finals |
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5:50 p.m. |
Women’s 400m |
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5:55p p.m. |
Men’s 400m |
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6:05 p.m. |
Women’s 500m |
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6:15 p.m. |
Men’s 500m |
Ian Jones |
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6:15 p.m. |
Women’s High Jump |
Carly Hinkle |
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6:25 p.m. |
Women’s 1000m |
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6:30 p.m. |
Men’s 1000m |
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6:40 p.m. |
Women’s 5000m Fast Section |
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7 p.m. |
Men’s 5000m Fast Section |
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7 p.m. |
Men’s Pole Vault |
Matthew Peare |
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7:20 p.m. |
Women’s 200m |
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7:25 p.m. |
Men’s 200m |
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7:30 p.m. |
Men’s High Jump |
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7:35 p.m. |
Women’s 300m |
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn Sydney McLaughlin |
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7:45 p.m. |
Men’s 300m |
Fred Dorsey |
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8:00 p.m. |
Women’s 3000m |
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8:15 p.m. |
Men’s 3000m |
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8:30 p.m. |
Women’s 4 x 400m Relay |
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8:45 p.m. |
Men’s 4 x 400m Relay |
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