Track and Field Splits For Pepsi Florida Relays, Stanford Invitational

Friday, March 29

Palo Alto, Calif.

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University of Missouri

Stanford Invitational

Track and Field Splits For Pepsi Florida Relays, Stanford Invitational

3/28/2024 9:00:00 AM | Track & Field

COLUMBIA, Mo. — University of Missouri track and field will send a contingent of competitors to the Pepsi Florida Relays, hosted by Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and to the Bay Area for the Stanford Invitational, hosted by Stanford in Palo Alto, California, and the Mike Fanelli Track Classic, hosted by San Francisco State in Hayward, California.

LAST TIME OUT

The Tigers won three events and scored 10 podium finishes at the Yellow Jacket Invitational, hosted by Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia.
Austin Popplewell started his season with a victory in the men's 5000m, crossing the finish line in a personal-best 14:32.60.
Mitch Weber led a Missouri podium sweep in the men's discus, hitting a 58.43m throw to win the event. Tarique George and Skylar Coffey followed in second (56.12m) and third (55.34m), respectively.
Erin Zimmerman secured a victory in the women's javelin throw, recording a personal-best 51.18m which moved her into sixth place on Missouri's all-time women's javelin list.
In their first outing as a unit, the 4x100m relay squad of Quinton Brown, Robert Hines, Steven Marks and Marc Poland Jr. posted a 40.59 mark that ranks 10th in Mizzou history.

CAUGHT UP IN THE WEB

Mitch Weber opened his final season in the Black and Gold on a mission and looks to make his last year his best one yet.
The Saint Clair, Minnesota, product opened outdoor competition with a 58.43m discus throw that came close to his personal best to win the event title at the Yellow Jacket Invitational.
His mark set two weekends ago ranks second in the SEC and No. 11 in the nation entering the third weekend of the season.
The 2022 SEC Men's Discus Champion is looking to maintain and improve his mark as he hopes to qualify for NCAA Championships - Round One for the fourth consecutive season.

A WIN FOR ERIN

Erin Zimmerman got off to a hot start to her 2024 season, moving up the program's women's javelin program top-10 list with a personal-best mark.
The Malvern, Pennsylvania, native threw a personal-record 51.18m to win the women's javelin event at the Yellow Jacket Invitational and move up to sixth in Missouri track and field history.
The Tiger veteran's mark also sits among the top-15 throws in the country, as she ranks No. 12 in the nation in the event.
The three-time NCAA Championships - Round One qualifier in women's javelin looks to make the cut for the fourth consecutive campaign.

TRIPLE JUMP TIGERS

At the Florida Relays, Missouri will see triple jumpers Euphenie Andre and Sterling Scott make their outdoor debuts fresh off All-American campaigns.
In the 2023 outdoor season, Andre put together a remarkable campaign where she earned her second career All-America honor , finishing as USTFCCCA Second Team All-American in the women's triple jump with a career-best 13.39m leap to finish 12th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Later that summer, Andre became a silver medalist in the women's triple jump at the 2023 NACAC U23 Championships, resetting her career best with a 13.42m mark.
Scott's collegiate career got off to a tremendous start in the 2024 indoor season, where he became Missouri's first All-American in any event since 2019 in the men's triple jump.
The freshman from Starkville, Mississippi, qualified for the NCAA Indoor Championships in his final jump of the season at the SEC Indoor Championships, earning a bronze medal at the event with a 16.14m jump.
At the NCAA Indoor Championships, Scott finished 11th to earn a USTFCCCA All-America Second Team placement and finished as the best freshman men's triple jumper in the nation.

LIGHTNING-FAST LICI

After a breakout 2024 indoor campaign, Alicia Burnett returns to the track to make her outdoor debut at the Florida Relays in the 100m and 200m.
The St. Louis, Missouri, native broke Mizzou's program record in the women's 60m on Feb. 2 at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational, hitting a 7.28 clip in the event preliminaries before shattering her own mark with a 7.21 sprint in the final.
The 7.21 mark helped her qualify for the women's 60m at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March, where she finished 12th in the event to become a USTFCCCA Second Team All-American.
With the All-American finish, Burnett became the first Missouri sprinter since 2016 to earn All-American status. Over the course of the indoor season, Burnett hit a mark under LaQuisha Jackson's previous record in the women's 60m five times.

RESPECT THE CLAU

High jumper Claudina Diaz will make her 2024 outdoor season debut at the Florida Relays and hope to replicate the success of the 2023 outdoor campaign.
The standout from Merida, Yucatan, Mexico, topped the podium in all three regular-season meets she competed in, then placed among the top-five in the women's at the SEC Outdoor Championships and the NCAA West Preliminary Round.
At the NCAA Outdoor Championships, Diaz finished fifth in the women's high jump with a 1.84m mark, earning USTFCCCA First Team All-America status.
She became the first Missouri women's high jumper to become an All-American since Karissa Roman secured Second Team honors in 2020. Her First Team placement also marked the first time that a Mizzou women's high jumper finished as a First Team All-American since Hanne Skei Andersen at the 1994 NCAA Outdoor Championships.

PEPSI FLORIDA RELAYS INFORMATION & DETAILS
Location/Venue	Gainesville, Florida – James G. Pressly Stadium
Date/Times (CT)	Friday, March 29 First Event: 8 a.m. Estimated Finish: 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30 First Event: 8 a.m. Estimated Finish: 4 p.m.
Meet Schedule	Pepsi Florida Relays Meet Schedule
Live Results	Pepsi Florida Relays Live Results
Updates & Info	@MizzouTFXC on X

ATHLETE ENTRIES

Friday, March 29 - Track
Events	Athletes Entered
200m (W)	Alicia Burnett
200m (M)	Robert Hines Steven Marks
1500m (W)	Renee Lewis Allison Newman Reilly Revord
1500m (M)	Angus Beer Andrew Simard Jack Warner
5000m (W)	Ginger Murnieks Allison Newman
5000m (M)	Austin Popplewell
3000m Steeplechase (W)	Kaia Downs
3000m Steeplechase (M)	Royce Fisher
4x100m (M)	Squad A Emanuele Bellanova Robert Hines Steven Marks Marc Poland Jr.

Friday, March 29 - Field
Events / Time (CT)	Athletes Entered
Discus (W)	Ames Burton Emily Offenheiser
Discus (M)	Skylar Coffey Tarique George Mitch Weber
Hammer Throw (W)	Ames Burton Petra Gombas
Hammer Throw (M)	Sam Innes Garik Pozecki
High Jump (W)	Claudina Diaz
Javelin (W)	Skylar Ciccolini Ava Curry Erin Zimmerman
Javelin (M)	Callan Saldutto
Long Jump (W)	Isabella Sokolova
Long Jump (M)	Sterling Scott

Saturday, March 30 - Track
Events	Athletes Entered
100m (W)	Alicia Burnett
100m (M)	Robert Hines Steven Marks
400m (W)	Brianna Lee
400m (M)	Marc Poland Jr.

Saturday, March 30 - Field
Events / Time (CT)	Athletes Entered
Pole Vault (M)	Emanuele Bellanova
Shot Put (W)	Emily Offenheiser
Shot Put (M)	Skylar Coffey Rece Rowan
Triple Jump (W)	Euphenie Andre
Triple Jump (M)	Sterling Scott

STANFORD INVITATIONAL INFORMATION & DETAILS
Location/Venue	Palo Alto, California – Cobb Track and Angell Field
Date/Times (CT)	Friday, March 29-Saturday, March 30 First Event: 3:15 p.m. Estimated Finish: 1:15 a.m.
Meet Schedule	Stanford Invitational Meet Schedule
Live Results	Stanford Invitational Live Results
Updates & Info	@MizzouTFXC on X

ATHLETE ENTRIES

Friday, March 29 - Track
Events	Athletes Entered
1500m (W)	Isabelle Christiansen Nicole Louw Kelsey Schweizer Anneken Viljoen
1500m (M)	Jack Forer Davis Helmerich Ethan Lee
10,000m (W)	Mikayla Reed Jenna Schwartz
10,000m (M)	Blake Morris
3000m Steeplechase (M)	Eddie Zuercher

MIKE FANELLI TRACK CLASSIC INFORMATION & DETAILS
Location/Venue	Hayward, California – Chabot College Football Track
Date/Times (CT)	Friday, March 29 First Event: 3:46 p.m. Estimated Finish: 3:51 p.m.
Meet Schedule	Mike Fanelli Track Classic Meet Schedule
Live Results	Mike Fanelli Track Classic Live Results
Updates & Info	@MizzouTFXC on X