Mustangs Open Outdoor Season With TCU Invitational
Mar 18 | Track & Field
| SMU at the TCU Invitational | |
| Date | Thursday, March 19 - Friday, March 20 |
| Location | Lowdon Track & Field Complex | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Meet Website | GoFrogs.com |
| Live Video | FloTrack |
| Live Results | Flash Results |
| Meet Notes | Notes (.pdf) |
| /SMUMustangs | /SMUTrackFieldXC | |
| @SMUMustangs | @SMUTrackFieldXC | |
DALLAS -- The SMU women's track and field team opens its outdoor season this week with the 15th-annual TCU Invitational on Thursday, March 19, and Friday, March 20 at the Lowdon Track & Field Complex.
Lowdon Track & Field Complex:
3750 West Berry Street, Fort Worth, TX 76129
Features: Opened in 1999. Beynon surface with 9 lanes 48" in width with all field events within the complex on Williams-Reilly Field . (¼" pyramid restrictions on spikes).
The meet begins on Thursday with two field events, the discus and the hammer throw. The discus competition begins at noon, followed by the hammer at 3 p.m. CT. Running events and the remaining field events take place on Friday.
Flotrack will provide live video coverage of the meet on Friday. All races will be live and archived on Flotrack's website.
REIGNING AAC CHAMPIONS
The Mustangs are looking to repeat as American Athletic Conference Champions after claiming the title last year in the conference's inaugural season. Seven Mustangs captured individual titles, four of which return to this year's squad. Stephanie Kalu (100-meter), Agnes Sjöström (5,000-meter) and Rayann Chin (Discus) all earned one title, while Lucija Cvitanovic won two (Javelin, Heptathlon). Cvitanovic also took home Most Outstanding Field Performer honors.
INDOOR RECAP
SMU finished third at the American Athletic Conference Indoor Championship at the New Balance Track & Field Center in New York City. The Mustangs finished with 83 points, 3.5 points behind second-place UCF (86.5) and 25 points behind champion Connecticut (108). "The effort at a championship meet is what matters and we had a championship effort. Unfortunately, we came up a little short," said head coach Dave Wollman. "The first step to success is the failure you just experienced, so we will use this to motivate ourselves for the outdoor."
Senior Rayann Chin earned the Mustangs' lone gold medal, finishing first in the weight throw. Chin also added a bronze in the shot put, right behind teammate Tochi Nlemchi, who placed second. Overall, eight Mustangs earned medals.
AAC Medalists
Gold
Rayann Chin - Weight Throw
Silver
Sjöström, Ehiemua, Archer, Skatteboe - Distance Medley Relay
Tochi Nlemchi - Shot Put
Bronze
Holly Archer - Mile
Stephanie Kalu - 60-meter
Isabella Marten - Triple Jump
Rayann Chin - Shot Put
In addition to their top performances at the conference meet, Chin, Kalu and Marten all posted marks over the course of the indoor season that ranked in the top 50 in the nation.
Indoor Top 50 Marks
60-meter
25. Stephanie Kalu (7.33)
Triple Jump
28. Isabella Marten (12.84m)
Weight Throw
36. Rayann Chin (19.87m)
SCHOOL RECORD HOLDERS
Senior Stephanie Kalu holds school records in the indoor 60-meter (6.75 in 2014), as well as the outdoor 100-meter (11.53 in 2014) and 200-meter (23.21 in 2014). Kalu was also a member of the record-setting 4x100 (outdoor) and 4x400 (indoor, outdoor) relay teams. Current sprinters Rachel Scruggs and Craishia Washington also land in the record books as members of the 4x100 (outdoor) and 4x400 (indoor, outdoor) relays teams. Isis Wilson, who graduated last year, was the fourth member of those record-setting relay teams.
UP NEXT - TEXAS RELAYS
Up next for the Mustangs are the Texas Relays on March 25-28 at the University of Texas.
