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OSU Outdoor Track & Field Travels to Des Moines, Iowa, for Prestigious Drake Relays – Oklahoma State University Athletics
STILLWATER – Oklahoma State outside monitor & subject is about to go north to Des Moines, Iowa, to compete within the 112th version of the Drake Relays.
The four-day meet begins on Wednesday with the Decathlon and Heptathlon. OSU kicks off particular person competitors on Thursday with the relays happening on Friday and Saturday.
The Cowboys and Cowgirls will every be competing for his or her first Hy-Vee Cup victory in program historical past this weekend. The Hy-Vee Cup consists of a sequence of relays (4×800, Distance Medley, Dash Medley, 4×100 and 4×400) with the winner being the workforce that has probably the most factors amassed by these 5 occasions.
“We’re extraordinarily excited and honored to return to the Drake for the Relays,” Director of Observe & Subject and Cross Nation Dave Smith stated. “We have had important success in our earlier endeavors at this prestigious occasion and I feel we’re arrange for one more good run this 12 months.”
OSU at present holds the Drake Relays Meet File in each the 4×800 (8:25.41) and 4×1600 Meter Relays (18:58.11) on the ladies’s aspect, with the 2 information being set in 2019 and 2015, respectively.
Alongside the Hy-Vee Cup portion of the occasion, a number of Cowboys and Cowgirls shall be competing individually with the objective of placing down a regional qualifying time.
Gabby Hentemann makes her outside season debut within the ladies’s 10,000 Meters after a profitable indoor season which noticed her place second within the 5,000 Meters and third within the 3,000 Meters on the Huge 12 Indoor Championships in February. The eight-time All-Huge 12 finisher throughout all three seasons is making her occasion debut within the outside 10K after qualifying for nationals final 12 months within the outside 5K.
Kian Davis and Chris Middleton-Pearson shall be competing within the unseeded portion of the lads’s 1,500 Meters on Thursday, with Isaiah Priddey competing within the seeded part of the occasion on Friday. Davis and Priddey are every lower than two seconds off the present regional qualifying time of three:42.58.
OSU will even run groups in each the lads’s and ladies’s 4×1,600 Meter Relay on Friday with a number of potential heavy hitters within the lineup. Nationwide Champion Taylor Roe, Hentemann and All-Huge 12 finishers Sivan Auerbach and Heidi Demeo will doubtlessly wield the baton on the ladies’s broad. All-Individuals Ryan Schoppe, Fouad Messaoudi and All-Huge 12 placers Shea Foster, Middleton-Pearson and Davis may all take part within the relay.
“The Relays are one of many best-run outside occasions nationwide,” Smith stated. “The educated followers and the electrical environment make it one in all our favourite occasions yearly. A number of of our program information have been set there and we’re thrilled to return for the 2022 season.”
Dwell outcomes of the Relays might be discovered on the hyperlink under and shall be up to date all through the weekend.
Drake Relays outcomes: https://outcomes.drakerelays.us/
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