Kentucky Track and Field begins NCAA Outdoor Championships on Wednesday

The Kentucky Track and Field program is in Eugene, OR throughout the rest of the week to compete in the 2022 NCAA Division I Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field. The event will begin on Wednesday and run until Sunday, as 19 Wildcats will take the field in hopes of bringing some hardware back to Lexington.

The men’s side will feature nine qualifiers from the NCAA East Prelims that took place in Bloomington, Indiana over Memorial Day weekend. The women’s side, led by star runner Abby Steiner, will bring 10 qualifiers. The women enter the event ranked No. 7 in the country by the Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Rating Index.

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Women: 

• Shadajah Ballard – 4x100m 
• Perri Bockrath – 3,000m steeplechase 
• Karimah Davis – 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m 
• Sophie Galloway – triple jump 
• Jade Gates – hammer throw 
• Alexis Holmes – 400m, 4x400m 
• Dajour Miles – 4x400m 
• Megan Moss – 400m, 4x400m (alternate) 
• Masai Russell – 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 4x400m (alternate) 
• Abby Steiner – 100m, 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m 

Men 

• Keaton Daniel – pole vault 
• Brian Faust – 400m, 4x400m 
• Rodney Heath Jr. – 4x100m 
• Lance Lang – 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m 
• Kennedy Lightner – 200m, 4x400m 
• Jacob Smith – 4x100m, 4x400m (alternate) 
• Josh Sobota – shot put 
• Dwight St. Hillaire – 400m, 4x100m, 4x400m 
• Kenroy Williams – 400m hurdles 

Below is more information on the championships, courtesy of UK Athletics. The entire weekend schedule can be found at the link here.

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The Kentucky men’s team will compete on Wednesday and Friday while the women’s competition will be held Thursday and Saturday. The first two days of the meet are prelim days for most of the running events plus prelims and finals for some distance track and field events. 
 
The meet begins at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT (local time in Oregon) on Wednesday. The first Wildcats to compete start at 7:32 p.m. ET/4:32 p.m. PT when the men’s 4x100m takes the track for prelims and day one wraps with the men’s 4x400m at 10:48 p.m. ET. The schedule of events for Friday is the same plus/minus a few field events, with the men’s 4x100m final starting at 9 p.m. and the 4x400m final finishing around 11:30 p.m. ET. 
 
On Thursday, the meet begins with the women’s hammer at 6 p.m. ET and ends with the women’s 4x400m at 11:48 p.m. ET. On Saturday, UKTF begins their day with the women’s 4x100m final at 5:32 p.m. ET., and just like on Thursday, ends with the 4x400m at 7:51 p.m. Three of Kentucky’s four field athletes compete in their respective event finals on the first two days of competition. 
 
The meet will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks and streaming platforms. The first two days will be shown on ESPNU while the men’s final day will be broadcast on ESPN2 and the women’s final day on ESPN. 
 
Start lists and results will be at flashresults.ncaa.com.