Optimist
  • News
  • Sports
  • Opinion
    • Columns
    • Editorials
    • Letters to the Editor
  • Features
    • Book Review
  • Multimedia
    • Photo Galleries
    • Videos
  • Podcasts
    • Optimist Overtime
    • Top of the Key
  • Police Log
  • Print Edition
  • Projects
  • About
    • Advertise
    • Policies
    • Staff Contacts
    • Jobs
You are here: Home / Sports / Track heads to Houston for another tough meet

Track heads to Houston for another tough meet

January 28, 2016 by Savanah Silva

The track and field team will travel to Houston this weekend as they compete in yet another toughly stacked meet.

South Florida, Houston, Rice and Stephen F. Austin will be among the starting blocks along with the Wildcats. This will be no surprise for the ‘Cats considering they are coming off a strong team performance last week at Texas A&M against tough competition.

Junior Allie Hackett continued her journey as being one of the top distance runners in school history by claiming wins in the 5k and 3k. Along with fellow distance runner, Diana Garcia-Munoz are in Seattle, Washington, competing in the University of Washington Invitational.

Hackett will be competing in the 3k, 5k combo and Garcia will be running in the mile. The best runners in the country will be there and ACU took their top two runners to compete.

“It’s a packed field with a lot of great competition,” Hackett said, “So I just want to pick a girl and stick with it and hopefully get a great PR.”

Those who didn’t go to Seattle will be going to Houston, including those who didn’t compete last weekend in College Station. The teams have had two weeks off of competing, but not of practicing.

“The last two weeks have been solid,” assistant track coach Ray Walker said. “We had some good workouts and recovery days to prepare this weekend.”

Walker traveled with Hackett and Garcia to Seattle since he is their primary coach. Head coach Keith Barnier did not travel with the team last weekend due to health issues he had over Christmas break. Barnier had doctors appointments this week and will not be with his teams this weekend at Houston.

The Wildcats will be looking for more personal records and top-10 finishes like they had last weekend. Both the men and women’s 4×400 relay will look to improve off of their sixth place finishes last weekend as well as improve team finishes overall.

Conference teams will be at the Houston Invitational and with the Indoor conference championships less than a month away, this is one way the coaches will see how the Wildcats stack up in terms of conference standings.

“We’ll get to see where we are as a program,” Walker said.

Events start Friday at noon with the women and men’s Pentathlon events. Saturday will be all final events with results posted after the meet.

Filed Under: Sports Tagged With: Track and field

Other Sports:

  • Wildcats finish season perfect at home, clinch 2-seed in Southland Tournament

  • Women’s track and field claims first-ever Southland Conference title

  • Baseball claims series victory over New Mexico State

Avatar

About Savanah Silva

You are here: Home / Sports / Track heads to Houston for another tough meet

Other Sports:

  • Wildcats finish season perfect at home, clinch 2-seed in Southland Tournament

  • Women’s track and field claims first-ever Southland Conference title

  • Baseball claims series victory over New Mexico State

Follow us online

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Twitter
  • YouTube

Optimist on Twitter

acuoptimistThe Optimist@acuoptimist·
5 Mar

The university is reporting its lowest number of active COVID-19 cases in the 2020-21 academic year with just one active case Friday. Quarantines also fell to the lowest of the spring semester with 19.

Reply on Twitter 1367956616528748546Retweet on Twitter 13679566165287485461Like on Twitter 136795661652874854616Twitter 1367956616528748546
acuoptimistThe Optimist@acuoptimist·
5 Mar

"You might be surprised at what you discover about yourself when you reflect on how “the year that changed the world” changed you." Read more from Chief Photographer Riley Fisher below:
https://acuoptimist.com/2021/03/reflecting-on-the-year-that-changed-the-world/

Reply on Twitter 1367946520046104579Retweet on Twitter 1367946520046104579Like on Twitter 1367946520046104579Twitter 1367946520046104579

Optimist on Facebook

The Optimist

3 days ago

The Optimist
The university is reporting its lowest number of active COVID-19 cases in the 2020-21 academic year with just one active case Friday. Quarantines also fell to the lowest of the spring semester with 19. ...

Photo

View on Facebook
· Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

The Optimist

3 days ago

The Optimist
"You might be surprised at what you discover about yourself when you reflect on how “the year that changed the world” changed you." Read more from Chief Photographer Riley Fisher below: ...

Reflecting on the year that changed the world - Optimist

acuoptimist.com

Thinking about everything that has changed in the last year can be scary and overwhelming. The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc in a lot of areas, affecting things as local as the closing of many small businesses and as large as the operations of the entire entertainment industry. I’ve caught m...
View on Facebook
· Share

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linked In Share by Email

Videos

Top of the Key: Episode 17 – Super Bowl Special

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MFgeZDuHU0 ... [Read More…]

  • Praise Day Fridays return to campus
  • Optimist Newscast – Nov. 5, 2020
  • ACUTV, Optimist preparing for live election show

Latest Photos

  • Home
  • Weekly Ads
  • Classifieds

© 2021 ACU Optimist · All Rights Reserved