Track & Field Sets Eyes on Big Apple

NEW YORK, N.Y. (Jan. 26, 2023) – South Carolina Monitor & Area is taking its skills to New York Metropolis this weekend to compete within the Dr. Sander Columbia Problem hosted by Columbia. The 2-day meet begins on Friday and can happen on the Nike Monitor & Area Middle at The Armory.

Observe the Meet
Stay outcomes for the Columbia Problem will be discovered by clicking right here. For any which are thinking about stay video, the meet will probably be streamed by means of USA Monitor & Area TV for a nominal charge of $12.99 per 30 days (can cancel at any time). The hyperlink for the stay video will be discovered right here. Followers also can comply with together with updates on Twitter by following @GamecockTrack.

Meet Info
The annual Columbia Problem is a scored meet, with the highest eight locations scoring factors within the following format (10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1) The occasion will start on Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. with the ladies’s shot put, males’s triple leap and the lads’s pole vault. The primary monitor occasion would be the ladies’s 60-meter prelims at 12:15 p.m. adopted by the lads’s 60-meter prelims at 12:40. Saturday’s occasions will begin at 9:30 a.m. with the ladies’s weight throw, adopted by the primary monitor occasion at 10:10 a.m. with the lads’s 3K. As normal, the meet will conclude with the 4x400m relays. The Gamecocks will probably be one in every of 20 collegiate groups competing this weekend. Nearly all of the rivals hail from the Northeast, excluding South Carolina and UCLA.

Coaches Nook
What he’s on the lookout for from the Gamecocks this weekend:
“This will probably be take a look at for us, competing away from house for the primary time this calendar 12 months. We will probably be going up towards robust competitors, so we’re wanting ahead to see what we now have proper now. We nonetheless have some student-athletes which are injured however others which are making their debuts this weekend, so excited to have them competing once more. As at all times, The Armory is a enjoyable place to compete. The scholar-athletes get to expertise New York Metropolis and get to run at an elite monitor.”

Gamecocks within the Rankings
South Carolina is off to a robust begin to open the 2023 indoor season. The boys’s crew ranks seventeenth within the first USTFCCCA High 25 rankings that got here out on Monday, whereas rating third within the Southeast Area. The ladies’s crew sits fourth within the Southeast Regional rankings. The Gamecocks have 31 completely different High 50 marks within the NCAA, together with 16 High 25 marks. Extra importantly nevertheless is that South Carolina possesses 10 High 16 marks, which in the end is what is required to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championship. Evan Miller holds a pair of High 10 marks, together with hanging on because the nationwide chief within the males’s 400m (45.91), whereas holding the eighth-best mark within the males’s 200m (20.76). Jayla Jamison is part of three High 16 marks, together with the ladies’s 60m (7.25), ladies’s 200m (23.39) and the ladies’s 4x400m relay with a time of three:32.40. Each William Spencer, Jr. (14th in 400m) and Filip Demsar (thirteenth in 60mH) maintain High 16 marks of their respective occasions, whereas Kobe Franklin (eighth in excessive leap) and Dylan Targgart (sixteenth in shot put) spherical out the person High 16 marks. The ladies’s Distance Medley Relay crew of Emily Pierontoni, Svenja Sommer, Emily Smith and Ella Zeigler maintain the ultimate High 16 mark, putting fifteenth within the DMR with a time of 12:10.64.