COLUMBIA, Mo. — Mizzou Track and Field will travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas, for the Arkansas Qualifier on Friday afternoon. It will be the Tigers' second of three guaranteed trips to Randal Tyson Indoor Track Center this season. The meet will be streamed on ESPN+ beginning at 2 p.m. CT.
The Tigers get back to action after an off week. In their last meets the team sent split squads that competed at Iowa State and Arkansas, taking home eight event wins between the two meets.
After its successful showing, Mizzou is now set to compete against a stacked slate, featuring nine squads from the SEC, Big 12 and Pac 12 conferences. Arkansas, Vanderbilt, Kansas, Kansas State, Arizona, Arizona State, UCLA, Utah and Washington State will all send squads to the Arkansas Qualifier.
The Qualifier will kick off with men's weight throw at noon CT, followed by a flurry of jump events. The track events will begin with the 60m hurdles and 60m dash preliminary races at 2 p.m. CT. The meet will close with the men's 4x400 at 6:05 p.m. CT.
Mizzou will send a number of its current NCAA qualifiers to Friday's meet, including senior Ja'Mari Ward (Cahokia, Ill.) in the long jump, sophomore Euphenie Andre (Dover Plains, N.Y.), junior Arianna Fisher (San Jose, Calif.), and sophomore Georgi Nachev (Yambol, Bulgaria) in the women's and men's triple jump, respectively.
In addition to the qualifiers, a number of event winners will make the trip. Redshirt senior Karina Liz (Aurora, Ill.) will run the women's 800m race, which she has won in each of her two meets this season. Freshman Rondajai Washington (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) will compete in the women's 200m dash, which she won in her first collegiate appearance in the event.
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Mizzou Entries — Field Events (Beginning at noon CT)
Weight Throw (M) — Ethan Hanson, Mitchell Weber, Derek Parker, Jason Petko
High Jump, (W) — Claudina Diaz
Long Jump, (M) — Ja'Mari Ward
Weight Throw, (W) — Sydney Johnson, Sydney Oberdiek, Jordan Speer, Emily Stauffer
Triple Jump, (W) — Arianna Fisher, Euphenie Andre, Mara Hausler
Shot Put, (M) — Ethan Hanson, Devin Roberson, Mitch Weber, Rece Rowan
Shot Put, (W) — Emily Offenheiser, Jordan Speer, Emily Stauffer
Triple Jump, (M) — Georgi Nachev
Mizzou Entries — Track Events (Beginning at 2 p.m. CT)
60m HH, (M) — Zachary Charles
60m Dash, (W) — Rondajai Washington
1 Mile Run, (W) — Sarah Chapman, Kelsey Schweizer
1 Mile Run, (M) — Angus Beer, Davis Helmerich, Blake Morris, Jack Warner, Quentin Worley
400m Dash, (W) — Elle Brown, Mya Drayton
400m Dash, (M) — Blake Hays, Jacob Brunsman, Eduardo Favela, Cason Suggs
800m Run, (W) — Morgan O'Neal, Michaela Hackbarth, Karina Liz
800m Run, (M) — Jonathan Schmidt
200m Dash, (W) — Rondajai Washington
200m Dash, (M) — Nylo Clarke, Jayson Ashford
3000m Run, (W) — McKenna Revord, Ginger Murnieks, Mikayla Reed, Isabelle Christiansen, Sarah Chapman
3000m Run, (M) — Kieran Wood
4x400 RUN, (W) — Brown, Drayton, Liz, O'Neal, Washington
4x400 RUN, (M) — Ashford, Brunsman, Hays, Schmidt, Beer