STEPHENVILLE, Texas — The Tarleton State Track and Field continues its season with a pair of meets in two days. The Texans will head to Norman, Oklahoma for the JD Martin Invitational on Thursday followed by the Stan Scott Invite at Texas Tech on Friday.
The JD Martin Invitational will feature the Tarleton State jumpers on Thursday at the Mosier Indoor Track Facility. The meet will not be streamed and was originally scheduled for Friday but moved up due to incoming weather. It will be the second time this season that the Texans head to Norman to compete.
The Stan Scott Invite will feature the Texan sprinters on Friday at the Texas Tech Sports Performance Center. The meet will be streamed on ESPN+. Track events will be streamed live with field events being showed during breaks on the track. Live results are provided by pt timing. For results and highlights followed @tarletontrackxc on Instagram and X.
Tarleton State competed last weekend at the Corky Classic in Lubbock. Across the two-day event, the Texans posted 23 top 10 performance bests, set three new school records and a pair of national records as well.
Lauren Roy set the Northern Ireland record with a 7.25 second performance in the 60 meters, finishing third in the semis behind
Victoria Cameron's 7.22 second performance.
Malak Rashwan set the new school record in the 60-meter hurdles as well as broke her Egyptian national record in 8.46 seconds. In her Texan debut,
Emma Holmes broke the 400-meter program record in 55.18 seconds.
Jacob Thomas was tabbed the WAC Men's Field Athlete of the Week after placing second in the pole vault and breaking the school record. He broke his own school record of 5.02 meters clearing the 5.03-meter bar in Lubbock.
After the first two Texan meets, six athletes are ranked in the indoor top 50 this season. In the women's 60 meters,
Victoria Cameron's altitude corrected 7.24 seconds ranks ninth and
Lauren Roy's 7.27 seconds is 12
th. Three Texan men rank in the top 50 in the long jump. Sathyanathan (7.80 meters) is tenth,
Sir Jonathan Sims (7.73 meters) is 13
th, and
Jalen Cadet is 28
th in 7.51 meters.
Davi Torres cleared the 2.13-meter bar in his first meet of the season to rank 26
th overall.
In the Texans first meet of the season, four Texans earned top three finishes at the OU Winter Field Fest, and the men's indoor high jump school record was the first to fall.
Davi Torres knocked off the high jump record by a hundredth of a meter with a 2.13-meter clearance.
Last season, the Texans sent four to the NCAA Indoor National Championships. A pair earned First Team All-American honors for the first time in program history. The top 16 athletes with the best single mark in their event earn a bid the championships held in the middle of March. This year, it will be at the University of Arkansas on March 13-14.
Tarleton State will be back in action next weekend once again at Texas Tech for the Jarvis Scott Invitational as well as in Texas A&M for the Ted Nelson Invitational.
