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Alexis Jarrett Invitational
Track & Field Opens 2026 Season with Alexis Jarrett Invitational
1/9/2026 9:30:00 AM | Track & Field
Mizzou opens the year with five-straight home meets at Hearnes Center Fieldhouse.
Mizzou track and field kicks off its 2026 season by hosting the Alexis Jarrett Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 10, beginning at 10 a.m. at Hearnes Center Fieldhouse.
INSIDE THE FIELDHOUSE
Mizzou welcomes SIUE, Kansas City, Central Methodist, Iowa Western CC, Barton CC and Cottey to Hearnes Center Fieldhouse. The Alex Jarrett Invitational opens the program's five-meet homestand for the indoor season.
Before the start of last year's indoor season, the facility's 200-meter track was refurbished with an eight-lane sprint straightaway, along with runways for pole vault and horizontal jumps. Since its opening in 1972, the venue has hosted multiple indoor track and field competitions, including the 1991 Big Eight Indoor Track & Field Championship.
MEET NAMESAKE: ALEXIS JARRETT
The Alexis Jarrett Invitational is named in honor of Alexis Jarrett, a trailblazer whose leadership helped establish women's athletics at Mizzou following the passage of Title IX. Beginning in the mid-1970s, Jarrett launched the university's first eight varsity women's sports programs and served as Mizzou's first coach for women's basketball, track and field, and softball, helping transform opportunity into lasting competitive success.
Jarrett also served as the university's first assistant athletics director and sports information director for women's sports, playing a key role in building programs from the ground up through recruiting, fundraising and campus partnerships. A lifelong advocate for women's athletics, she has remained a devoted supporter of Mizzou for more than five decades and was recognized as a Women's Athletics Trailblazer at the 2022 Mizzou Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame ceremony.
TIGERS ON THE TRACK
Eighteen Tigers are slated to take on the Alexis Jarrett Invitational, three of which will make their Missouri debut. Freshman Sofia Wydra and transfer Brianna Utecht in the women's 60m hurdles, long jump and shot put. Houston transfer Dillon Leacock will don the Black & Gold for the first time in the men's 60m hurdles and 200m.
Senior Robert Hines opens the season by competing in the men's 60m and 200m. Garik Pozecki, Clayton Kamp and TJ Wiggins prepare to return in the men's weight throw. Kamp will join Chase Crawford and Sam Albert in the men's shot put.
On the women's side, Reagan Kimrey, Petra Gombas, Delilah Pippen, Kaitlyn Morningstar and Ames Burtonrepresent Mizzou in the women's weight throw, with Burton also included in the women's shot put lineup. Marlena Tresnjo will make her return to the women's high jump. Anna Vedral, Allison Geen and Anna Ferguson are set to compete in the women's pole vault.
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