Outdoor Season Continues at Stanford

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon track and field team will close out the first month of the outdoor season at the two-day Stanford Invitational. The Ducks' weekend focus will be on their distance, jumps and multis
Groups. The meet begins Friday at Cobb Track and Angell Field in Stanford, Calif.
 
The 2024 Stanford Invitational will be streamed on FloTrack, starting at 10:30 a.m.
 
Coming off a lifetime best and win at last weekend's Oregon Preview, Taylor Chocek leads a quartet of UO entries in the 100-meter hurdles. Chocek's season-opening time of 13.59 took three-tenths off her previous best and made her the No. 10 performer in program history.
 
Chocek will be joined by multis teammates Gianna Bullock, Colleen Uzoekwe and Annika Williams. On the men's side, Arthur Katahdin and Rafael Raap will run in the heats of the 110-meter hurdles. Prelims in the hurdle events are scheduled for a 10:37 a.m. start.
 
The Ducks' multis will also compete in the long jump, shot put and discus throughout day one.
 
Oregon's high jump crew will also compete Friday afternoon. Jack Normand and Cheyla Scott took the top spots in the men's and women's high jumps at the Oregon Preview. Normand was just off his best with a 2.10m/6-10.75 clearance while Scott posted a winning height of 1.75m/5-8.75 at the Preview.
 
Friday evening's distance carnival will feature Maddy Elmore in the invitational section of the women's 5,000 meters. Elmore has an outdoor best of 16:11.77 from last year's Bryan Clay Invitational, and is coming off an indoor season where she broke the UO record at 3,000 meters
 
The Ducks' first event Friday evening is section three of the men's 1500 meters with Benjamin Balazs and James Harding. Section two of the women's 10,000 meters with Anika Thompson is set to go off at 10:43 p.m.
 
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