UK Track and Field Set for Season Finale, Opens NCAA Championships on Wednesday
LEXINGTON, Ky. – It’s champ week!
22 Wildcats are set represent the Kentucky track and field team across 11 events this week at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Ore. at the historic Hayward Field on June 11-14.
Moving into the week, the Wildcats moved up one spot in the USTFCCCA men’s rankings to No. 23 and currently sit at No. 29 in the women’s rankings. As a conference, the SEC combined for 10 schools listed inside this week’s rankings with 166 total individual entries to the national championships.
Among the 22 individual entries for the Wildcats, 15 are set on the women’s side, including Janet Jepkemboi Amimo and Jenna Schwinghamer in the 800m and Camden Bentley and Emmi Scales in the 100m hurdles in the individual track events. The Cats have also sent a pair of relay teams to Eugene with the 4x100m relay team, consisting of Morgan Davis, Hannah Douglas, Sharmelle Holmes and Stacey Onyepunuka, and the 4x400m team, featuring A’Laji Bradley, Douglas, Alysia Johnson and Cha’iel Johnson. For the field events, Payton Phillips, in her first championship appearance, will represent UK in the pole vault event followed by Kate Powers, also in her second championship appearance, in the hammer throw event.
On the men’s side, seven athletes will represent Kentucky this week in Eugene, starting with the 4x100m relay team, including Miles Jones, Carlie Makarawu, Clinton Muunga and Josh Onwunili. Makarawu will also feature as an individual in the 200m event, an event he earned a gold medal and a NCAA title in during the indoor season. Recently awarded SEC Men’s Freshman Runner of the Year Collins Kiprop Kipngok will make his nationals debut this week in the 3000m steeplechase event after winning both the SEC Championship and the preliminary event in Jacksonville. Senior Luke Brown rounds out the men’s qualifying list for the Cats, taking the silver medal at the SEC Championships and third at the east prelims in the triple jump event.
The NCAA Outdoor Championships will begin for the Wildcats tomorrow at 7:05 p.m. EST with the men’s 4x100m relay semifinal. The relay will be followed by the 3000m steeplechase semifinal, featuring Kiprop Kipngok, at 7:38 p.m. EST and UK record holder Makarawu running in the 200m semifinal at 9:29 p.m. EST.
The full four-day event schedule for Kentucky can be found below.
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Event Schedule
| NCAA Outdoor Championships: Wednesday, June 11: ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME | |||
| Men’s 4x100m | 7:05 p.m. | Semifinal | Kentucky
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| Men’s 3000m Steeplechase | 7:38 p.m. | Semifinal | Collins Kiprop Kipngok
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| Men’s 200m | 9:29 p.m. | Semifinal | Carlie Makarawu |
| NCAA Outdoor Championships: Thursday, June 12: ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME | |||
| Women’s Hammer | 4:30 p.m. | FINAL | Kate Powers
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| Women’s 4x100m | 7:05 p.m. | Semifinal | Kentucky
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| Women’s Pole Vault | 7:35 p.m. | Final | Payton Phillips |
| Women’s 100m Hurdles | 8:25 p.m. | Semifinal | Emmi Scales, Camden Bentley
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| Women’s 800m | 8:58 p.m. | Semifinal | Janet Jepkemboi Amimo, Jenna Schwinghamer
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| Women’s 4x400m | 10:36 p.m. | Semifinal | Kentucky |
| NCAA Outdoor Championships: Friday, June 13: ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME | |||
| Men’s 4x100m | 8:02 p.m. | FINAL | TBA
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| Men’s Triple Jump | 8:10 p.m. | Final | Luke Brown
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| Men’s 3000m Steeplechase | 8:24 p.m. | Final | TBA |
| Men’s 200m | 10:50 p.m. | Final | TBA
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| NCAA Outdoor Championships: Saturday, June 14: ALL TIMES IN EASTERN TIME | |||
| Women’s 4x100m | 9:02 p.m. | Final | TBA
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| Women’s Triple Jump | 9:10 p.m. | Final | Sophie Galloway
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| Women’s 100m Hurdles | 9:42 p.m. | Final | TBA
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| Women’s 800m | 10:14 p.m. | Final | TBA
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| Women’s 4x400m | 11:21 p.m. | Final | TBA
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