TUCSON, Ariz. – Arizona Track and Field will host the Willie Williams Classic this Friday and Saturday for their outdoor home opener at Drachman Stadium.
"Following a long, but very successful trip to the Bahamas, it will be great to be home," said Head Coach
Fred Harvey. "The Willie Williams Classic has grown to become the largest university, college, community college, high school, and open meet in the state of Arizona. It is also special, because Coach Willie Williams was the first Black Division I Head Coach in any sport in the NCAA, and we get to honor him annually."
The meet gets started on Friday with the collegiate events beginning at 1:00 p.m. MST with the men's hammer throw. The Dave Murray Distance Carnival will then take place Friday night for running events, with a multitude of distance races starting at 5:00 p.m. MST. The first collegiate field event on Saturday will be the men's pole vault, which gets started at 10:00 a.m. MST. Additionally, running events will also begin at 10:00 a.m. MST on Saturday. The meet will also hold two adaptive wheelchair races on Saturday: the 100m and the 800m. Results for all the competitions can be found
here.
The team returns to Tucson after their last outing in Freeport, Bahamas for the Island Relays.
Jordan Geist highlighted the meet for the Wildcats, breaking the school record and winning the hammer throw with a personal best launch of 73.94m (242-7). Geist was named both the USTFCCCA Men's National Athlete of the Week and the Pac-12 Men's Field Athlete of the Week for his performance, which also won the event.
Additionally, the Wildcats had five other event winners:
Ava David (hammer throw),
Alexa Porpaczy and
Talie Bonds (high jump tie),
Reinaldo Rodrigues (long jump), and
Youssef Koudssi (discus). They also had a flurry of top-three finishes across the two-day event. Overall, the men finished runner-up at the competition with a total score of 140 and the women placed third with a total score of 152.
The Willie Williams Classic is the first of four home meets that the Wildcats will host during the outdoor season. The meet's namesake, Willie Williams, was inducted into the Arizona Athletics Sports Hall of Fame earlier this
year.
A meet recap will be posted to ArizonaWildcats.com detailing the competition results. Live updates will also be posted to @ArizonaTrack on Twitter.
WHO'S COMPETING
MEN
Julius Cheek,
Isaac Davis,
Brennan Foody,
Jordan Geist,
Joseph Green,
Sam Hala'ufia,
Brayden Hasher,
Logan Hasher,
Carl Hicks,
Noah Jodon,
Jacorey Jones,
Jacob Kauffman,
Razeen Khaldun,
Tanner Kippes,
Youssef Koudssi,
Zach Landa,
Parker Lehmann,
Brian Limage,
Logan Marek,
Jared O'Riley,
Michael Ogbeiwi,
James Onanubosi,
Cooper Quigley,
Jake Reed,
Reinaldo Rodrigues,
Cade Russo,
Ian Sanchez Lopez,
Iker Sanchez Lopez,
Kristjan Sigfinnsson,
Jeffrey Sillers,
Evan Simmons,
Sir Jonathan Sims,
Josh Wade,
Trayvion White-Austin
WOMEN
Malaya Abueg,
Camila Aguilar-Perez,
Esther Akinlosotu,
Sophia Atchison,
Talie Bonds,
Jenica Bosko,
Mia Chavez,
Erika Cunniam,
Ava David,
Makenzie Dilworth,
Isa Evans,
Lauryn Ford,
Emma Gates,
Tapenisa Havea,
Beatrice Honebrink,
Neysia Howard,
Sailor Hutton,
Meggie Karp,
Ajaysha Lewis,
Lauryn Love,
Alisa Lyesina,
Kara Mickelson,
Paris Mikinski,
Johnnie Mitchell,
Presley Money,
Athena Montgomery,
Mackenna Orie,
Rylee Perkins,
Hollan Powers,
Morgan Rhett,
Antonia Sanchez Nunez,
Xahria Santiago,
Megan Schulhof,
Avery Segura,
Skylar Sieben,
Emarie Sooter,
Erin Tack,
Eleanor Tuck,
Taylen Wise
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