MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota track and field program takes its talents to Tampa, Fla., for the USF Alumni Invite from March 21-22. The two-day meet will be held at the USF Track and Field Stadium with both the men’s and women’s program having student-athletes participate in uniform. ABOUT THE USF ALUMNI INVITEThe first official outdoor […]
MINNEAPOLIS — The University of Minnesota track and field program takes its talents to Tampa, Fla., for the USF Alumni Invite from March 21-22. The two-day meet will be held at the USF Track and Field Stadium with both the men’s and women’s program having student-athletes participate in uniform.
ABOUT THE USF ALUMNI INVITE
The first official outdoor meet for the Gopher women’s team since the end of the 2024-25 indoor campaign will be contested over two days with Friday’s action starting at 11:30 a.m. CT with the men’s hammer while Saturday’s competition starts at 10 a.m. with various field events. The meet is not televised or streamed, but fans can follow live results via Half-Mile Timing.
LAST TIME OUT
The University of Minnesota women’s track and field team wrapped up the indoor campaign last weekend while the men’s team began the outdoor campaign the week prior in Arizona. GOPHERS FINAL INDOOR #EVENTSQUAD RANKINGS
This USTFCCCA revealed its final indoor #EventSquad rankings, with Minnesota’s women’s weight throw ranked No. 4 nationally as a collective. The #EventSquad rankings are a rank order to a program’s ‘squad’ of athletes in a particular event using the cumulative season-best qualifying marks from a team’s top-four ranked athletes on a the national descending-order list. At indoor NCAAs the Maroon and Gold had a pair of Second Team All-America finishers in Virginia Beach, Va., at the Virginia Beach Sports Center. Redshirt sophomore Hadley Streit reached the NCAA final and was ninth while Anthonett Nabwe was 11th overall. For a full recap of last weekend’s indoor NCAA meet, click here. In Arizona, the men’s team started their season off with a bang. Five different program top 10 marks were posted by the Maroon and Gold, including the No. 2 times in the 110m hurdles and the 4x100m relay. For a full recap of the opening outdoor meet of the 2025 season, click here.Minnesota’s women had six different event groups rank inside the nation’s top 30. After the weight throw, Minnesota’s best events included: 60m hurdles (No. 7), 5000m (No. 16), high jump (No. 16), shot put (No. 21) and the mile (No. 28). For a full list of the latest #EventSquad rankings, click here. Additionally, in the final USTFCCCA indoor national team rankings the Minnesota Golden Gophers finished 31st.
UP NEXT
After the meet in Tampa, the Maroon and Gold will have its distance crew and pole vault group head to the Raleigh Relays from March 27-29. Following that meet, Minnesota will then have the rest of the squad head to the Florida Relays from April 4-5.
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