Track & Field Looks To Excel At SEC Championships
May 11, 2016 | Track & Field
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Forty-four Mississippi State athletes will lace up for the Outdoor SEC Track & Field Championships starting Thursday.
After seven weeks of action, the No. 13 men's team and No. 16 women's team will face its toughest field of the season at the championships. Nine men's teams and 10 women's team are in the Top 25 of the latest rankings.
“There is a lot of talent on these teams,” MSU coach Steve Dudley said. “The SEC is a very talented and competitive conference. I believe we can expect great things from our athletes this weekend."
The three-day meet begins at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday with the decathlon 100m dash. Willie Reed and Jaquarius Wilson will take on the decathlon for MSU.
Erica Bougard enters her last SEC Championships beginning with the heptathlon. Bougard won the event at the 2015 SEC Outdoor Championships scoring 6,250 points. Alongside Bougard in the heptathlon will be Zaria Tillman in her first SEC Outdoor Championships.
Along with the multi events on Thursday will be the prelims for the men's and women's 800m run, 200m run and 400m hurdles. Event preliminaries are set to run on Thursday and Friday with the finals being held on Saturday.
Leading the nation in the men's 800m run, Brandon McBride will step up to the line at 1:20 p.m. for the prelims.
Marta Freitas not only leads the SEC in the 1500m run, but also the nation. Her season-best time of 4:11.52 came at the Virginia Challenge. Freitas, along with teammates Madison Milhoan and Ffion Price, will take on the 1500m run and the 800m run at the meet.
In the field Thursday afternoon will be hammer thrower Brianna Smith. Smith's personal-best in the event is 185-03, the second-best throw in program history. She is set to begin at 4 p.m.
Ending day one will be Shannon Fair and Andrew Monaghan in the 10,000m run.
The meet will be streamed live on the SEC Network+ on Friday from 6:30 p.m. to 10:05 p.m. and again on Saturday from 3 p.m. to 7:50 p.m. A recap of the entire meet will be shown on ESPN Sunday, May 15, beginning at 2 p.m.
Announcers for the meet will be Dwight Stones on play-by-play, Larry Rawson and Jill Montgomery as the analysts and John Anderson as the field reporter.
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SEC Championships Schedule
Field Events
Thursday
11:15 a.m. Decathlon Long Jump – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
11:45 a.m. Heptathlon High Jump – Erica Bougard, Zaria Tillman
12:30 p.m. Decathlon Shot – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
1:30 p.m. Decathlon High Jump – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
1:45 p.m. Heptathlon Shot – Erica Bougard, Zaria Tillman
4:00 p.m. Hammer Throw – Brianna Smith
Friday
9:00 a.m. Heptathlon Long Jump – Erica Bougard, Zaria Tillman
10:15 a.m. Heptathlon Javelin – Erica Bougard, Zaria Tillman
12:45 p.m. Decathlon Discus – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
2:00 p.m. Long Jump – Leah Lott
2:45 p.m. Decathlon Pole Vault – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
5:45 p.m. Decathlon Javelin – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
6:30 p.m. Long Jump – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
7:30 p.m. Shot Put – Haley Reynolds
8:35 p.m. Javelin Throw - Curtis Thompson
Saturday
11:00 a.m. High Jump – Logan Boss, Erica Bougard, Deja Givens
11:30 a.m. Discus Throw – Haley Reynolds
11:35 a.m. Triple Jump – Tiffany Flynn
11:40 a.m. Pole Vault – Carl Pittman
3:35 p.m. Pole Vault – Sydney Rodkey
3:40 p.m. Triple Jump – Gralyn Jones
4:00 p.m. High Jump – Seth Peace
Running Events
Thursday
10:30 a.m. Decathlon 100m – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
11:00 a.m. Heptathlon 100mH – Erica Bougard, Zaria Tillman
1:00 p.m. 800m Prelim – Marta Freitas, Madison Milhoan, Ffion Price
1:20 p.m. 800m Prelim – Brandon McBride
2:05 p.m. 200m Prelim – Rodrigo Rocha, Philip Smith, Charles Taylor
2:30 p.m. 400mH Prelim – Ste'yce McNeil
2:50 p.m. 400mH Prelim – Vince Castillo, Dustin James II, Rasheed Tatham
3:50 p.m. Decathlon 400m – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
3:55 p.m. Heptathlon 200m – Erica Bougard, Zaria Tillman
9:30 p.m. 10,000m – Shannon Fair
10:10 p.m. 10,000m – Andrew Monaghan
Friday
12:00 p.m. Decathlon 110mH – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
12:15 p.m. Heptathlon 800m – Erica Bougard, Zaria Tillman
6:30 p.m. 100m H Prelim – Erica Bougard, Tiffany Flynn, Leah Lott, Ste'yce McNeil, Zaria Tillman
6:50 p.m. 110m H Prelim – Ro'Derick Spears
7:10 p.m. 1500m Prelim – Marta Freitas, Madison Milhoan, Ffion Price
7:30 p.m. 1500m Prelim – Caden Foos, Patrick Monaghan, Quintin Reiser
7:50 p.m. Decathlon 1500m – Willie Reed, Jaquarius Wilson
7:55 p.m. 400m Prelim – Alon Lewis, Shayla Luckett, Kimari Martin
8:20 p.m. 400m Prelim – Dustin James II, Alfred Larry, Philip Smith, Charles Taylor, Juston Waters
9:10 p.m. 100m Prelims – Lawrence Crawford, Rodrigo Rocha
9:35 p.m. 3k Steeple Final – Cornelia Griesche, Antonia Hehr
Saturday
3:10 p.m. Men's 4 x 100 Relay
3:20 p.m. Women's 1500m Final – TBD after prelims
3:30 p.m. Men's 1500m Final – TBD after prelims
3:40 p.m. Women's 100mH Final – TBD after prelims
3:50 p.m. Men's 110mH Final – TBD after prelims
4:00 p.m. Women's 400m Final – TBD after prelims
4:10 p.m. Men's 400m Final – TBD after prelims
4:30 p.m. Men's 100m Final – TBD after prelims
4:40 p.m. Women's 800m Final – TBD after prelims
4:50 p.m. Men's 800m Final – TBD after prelims
5:00 p.m. Women's 400mH Final – TBD after prelims
5:10 p.m. Men's 400mH Final – TBD after prelims
5:30 p.m. Men's 200m Final – TBD after prelims
5:40 p.m. 5000m Final – Shannon Fair, Marta Freitas, Cornelia Griesche, Antonia Hehr, Carly Terp
6:00 p.m. 5000m Final – Caden Foos, JT Mackay, Andrew Monaghan, Patrick Monaghan, Branden Nosker, Quintin Reiser
6:25 p.m. Women's 4 x 400 Relay
6:35 p.m. Men's 4 x 400 Relay
