MEET: Celebration Pointe Classic / Crimson Elite / Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational
DATE: Feb. 2-3, 2024 / Feb. 2, 2024 / Feb. 3, 2024
LOCATION: Gainesville, Fla. / Cambridge, Mass. / Boston, Mass.
SCHEDULE
Tampa, Fla., Feb. 1, 2024 – The University of South Florida track and field team continues its indoor season with a slate of three meets this weekend. The Bulls are coming off back-to-back AAC Male Track Athlete of the Week awards, with Jermaine Dyges winning the honor after running a program record 6.68 in the Jimmy Carnes Invitational 60m, and Abdul-Rasheed Saminu winning the award after beating that record with a 6.67 at the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational.
The team will compete in two locations on Friday, with some athletes traveling to Cambridge, Mass. for the Crimson Elite hosted by Harvard, while other athletes will travel to Gainesville, Fla. for the Celebration Pointe Indoor Classic. Then Saturday, those athletes up north will compete at the Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational in Boston, Mass.
Harvard Crimson Elite
In the field, Goodness Iredia, Kendell Mosley, and Elisha Teneus-Claude kick off USF's participation in the invitational in the men's long jump at 1:30 p.m., while Annia Ashley and Antonia Sealy will follow in the women's long jump at 5:00 p.m. Friday. Ashley will also compete in the women's high jump at 2:00 p.m., while the men will concurrently send out Iredia, Mosley, and Teneus-Claude for their high jump. Madeline Abega and Sealy will compete in the women's shot put at 3:00 p.m.
On the track, Zahria Allers-Liburd, Gianna Hansen, Amani Kirnon, and Lynette Scutari will start off the competition in the women's 60m dash preliminaries at 4:00 p.m., with the trials following at 5:25 p.m., and the finals at 6:20 p.m. on Friday. The men will send out Dyges, Jaleel Croal, Zayquan Lincoln, Shomari Pettigrew, and Saminu for their 60m dash, with preliminaries at 4:15 p.m., with the trials following at 5:35 p.m., and the finals at 6:25 p.m. on Friday. The 60m hurdles will have women's preliminaries starting at 4:45 p.m. and feature Abega, Hansen, Sealy, and Chakiya Plummer with finals following at 6:00 p.m. The men's 60m hurdles will be starting at 5:05 p.m. and feature Joshua Crum, Darian Mills, Michael Bourne III, Tyler Drew, and Markel Jones with finals following at 6:10 p.m. Friday.
The Bulls will also be on the track for the 400m and mile Friday. The women's mile will take place at 5:45 p.m. and feature Arden La-Rose, while the men will follow five minutes later and see Thomas Ashley and Johnny Reid compete. Lastly, the women's 400m will take place at 6:30 p.m. with the Bulls sending Abega. The men will follow 20 minutes after and see Crum run for the Bulls and conclude the meet.
Bruce Lehane Scarlet and White Invitational
Following Friday's competition at Harvard, many of South Florida's student-athletes compete again on Saturday at Boston University.
Field events at the invitational start at 10:30 a.m. Iredia, Mosley, and Teneus-Claude will start off the day in the men's high jump, and Ashley will follow for the women. Sealy will compete in the women's shot put concurrently.
On the track, The 60m hurdles will have women's trials starting at 10:45 a.m. and feature Abega, Hansen, Sealy, and Plummer, with finals following at 11:37 a.m. The men's 60m hurdles will be starting at 10:53 a.m. and feature Bourne III, Crum, Drew, Mills, and Jones with finals following at 11:40 a.m. Friday. The 60m dash will start with the women's trials at 11:00 a.m. and see Allers-Liburd, Hansen, Kirnon, and Scutari race, with the finals following at 11:45 a.m. The men will race their 60m dash trials at 11:07 a.m. and feature Croal, Dyges, Lincoln, Pettigrew, and Saminu, with finals following at 11:48 a.m. Saturday.
The women's 500m will see Abega compete at 11:15 a.m. and the men will race Bourne III, Crum, and Mills at 11:27 a.m. Then the women will have La-Rose compete in the mile at 11:51 a.m. and the men will see Ashley and Reid run their mile at 12:25 p.m. The women's 400m will take place at 12:52 p.m. and see Je'Nyia Burton, , Terren Peterson, and Plummer race, while the men will compete at 1:22 p.m. and trot out Devontie Archer, Tre'Sean Bouie, Daunte O'Banion, Nathan Metelus, Jones, and Drew. The 800m will take place for the women at 1:46 p.m. and see Amenda Saint-Louis compete, while the men will race Aidan Dixon at 2:12 p.m. Individual track events will conclude with the women's 200m at 2:57 p.m. and men's at 3:30 p.m. Allers-Liburd, Shaniya Benjamin, Burton, Hansen, Kirnon, Peterson, and Lynette Scutari will race for the women, while Bouie, Croal, Dyges, Lincoln, Metelus, Pettigrew and Shevioe Reid will race for the men.
The track weekend will conclude with the women's 4x400m relay at 5:52 p.m. and the men's at 6:20 p.m. on Saturday.
Celebration Pointe Indoor Classic
Track events will commence at 11:00 a.m. starting with the women's 1,000m, and the Bulls are sending out Catalina Edwards, Sydney Granack, Delaney Stephens, and Alyssa Wyatt. The men's 1,000m will follow, represented by Jesse Benavides for the Bulls. The women's 600m is next in sequence, with Sydni Studesville and Victoria Valdez taking the blocks. Then for the men's 600m, Benavides will again represent South Florida. The women's 3,000m comes after, with Hailey Cohen and Katelyn Thompson. The men again will follow, with Sebastian Edwards and Nickolas Kamen set to race.
Field events will begin at 10:00 a.m. Friday with the men's pole vault and the Bulls will send Kobe Babin, Noah Bitter, and Andreas Kreiss. The women will compete in the pole vault at 1:00 p.m., having Ella Dolce, Riley Hunt, Elizabeth Lydon, and Madeline Dutz competing. 1:30 p.m. will see Molie Jean Baptiste and Kendall McDaniel compete in the women's high jump.
At 1:00 p.m. on Friday, South Florida will see Alliya Boothe, Alexandria Hunter, and Annalee Harbison compete in the women's weight throw. On Saturday, the men's shot put is set for 10:00 a.m. and will feature Aidan Marsh. Then at noon, Alex Hunter and Jasmyn James will compete for the women's shot put final.
About USF Track and Field
The USF track and field team has earned 56 All-America selections and at least one All-American in 10 of the last 12 years, including a record eight athletes claiming 11 honors in 2021. Romaine Beckford won the 2023 NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the men's high jump. Tampa native Shaniya Benjamin set a program record earning three All-American honors during the 2021 outdoor season, while triple jumper Matthew O'Neal, a 2016 graduate, became USF's first six-time NCAA All-American. Bulls have posted two NCAA runner-up finishes since 2013 - O'Neal (triple jump, 2016) and Courtney Anderson (high jump, 2013). Head coach Erik Jenkins took over the program in 2020 and in the 2021 outdoor season the Bulls posted seven program records and 40 top 10 all-time program marks. USF hosted the 2018 NCAA Track and Field East Preliminary and the 2021 AAC Outdoor Championship at the USF Track and Field Stadium located on the east end of campus.
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