Michigan Track upsets #3 Arkansas, beats OSU & MSU
The world-class New U-M Indoor Track Building had its first meet a week ago. It was the Wolverine Invitational, a nice invite-style meet and a good first event for the building.
Today is where it got interesting. Michigan hosted its first team meet against other opponents in 6 years.
The #24 ranked Wolverine Men and the #12 ranked Wolverin Women took hosted 3 opponents today in the Simmons-Harvey Quad.
Michigan State, Ohio State and Arkansas. The only ranked team was Arkansas, #3 on the Men's and #2 on the Women's side.
Michigan flexed its distance muscle today, sweeping the 800 and 3,000 races on BOTH the Men's and Women's sides. It was the field strength on the Men's side the powered them to the team title and 3 wins on the day.
The Wolverine Men beat all 3 teams, including edging out Ohio State by just 1 point.
There was some late drama. Michigan took the 4x400 but was disqualified for "interference". However, there was another heat on the race that featured a 'B' relay team for Michigan that finished high enough to bring home 6 points, enough to pass the Buckeyes and win, 147.5-146.5
Final scores-
MEN
Place | Teeam | Points |
1. | #24 Michigan | 147.5 |
2. | Ohio State | 146.5 |
3. | #3 Arkansas | 97 |
4. | Michigan State | 96 |
- Weight Throw- Joe Ellis
- Shot Put- Andrew Liskowitz
- 400 M- Taylor McLaughlin
- 800 M- Matt Plowman
- 3,000 M- Micah Beller
WOMEN
Place | Teeam | Points |
1. | Ohio State | 145 |
2. | #2 Arkansas | 118 |
3. | #12 Michigan | 106 |
4. | Michigan State | 96 |
- High Jump- Claire Kieffer-Wright
- 1 Mile- Gina Sereno
- 400 M- Jade Harrison
- 800 M- Haley Meier
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3,000 M- Erin Finn
If you haven't been out to the New U-M Indoor Track Building, I suggest you check it out. It blows its predecessor away tenfold. Some photos I took-
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Just browsing very briefly it looks like he was runner up in both weight throw and shot, didn't see anything about discus.
http://mgoblue.com/news/2018/1/20/mens-track-field-michigan-clinches-si…
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As a point of comparison, Jenny Barringer (Simpson), one of the premier middle distance runners over the past decade in the U.S., holds the Colorado record at 8:42. 8:33 is the American record and that's held by Shalane Flanagan. Erin's run is early in the season, so she'll get faster.
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the Indoor track rankings, I tried goggling it but couldn't find anything current?
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Today and on the new arena, which looks almost exactly like Arkansas' indoor facility. Arky has a great banked track design that runners love. Glad Michigan duplicated it, because it will help them land some big pro meets in the future.