Busy Weekend Finds Ducks in Four States

EUGENE, Ore. – Split among its event groups, the Oregon track and field team is back on the road this weekend with entries in five meets across four states. The Ducks' sprint and multis groups are in New Mexico for the Don Kirby Invitational while the distance squad is sending entries to Boston for the BU Valentine Invitational and BC Eagle Elite, and to Arkansas for the Tyson Invitational.

Kobe Lawrence and Jaida Ross will represent the UO throws crew at the Jarvis Scott Invite hosted by Texas Tech.

The meets in Albuquerque and Boston will be streamed on FloTrack with the Tyson meet available on SEC Network+.

Friday Schedule

Time (PT)	Meet	Event	Entries
10:00 a.m.	Don Kirby	wLJ	Bullock
11:20 a.m.	BU Valentine	mMile	Harrison, Palfrey
12:10 p.m.	BC Eagle Elite	w800	Nielsen, W.
1:00 p.m.	Don Kirby	mPV	Gibbs
1:55 p.m.	Don Kirby	w200 - open	Neal, Shaheed, Taylor
2:00 p.m.	Don Kirby	mLJ	Carter, Katahdin, Kessler, M'Bay
	Don Kirby	wLJ	Ganashamoorthy
2:35 p.m.	BC Eagle Elite	wMile	Nielsen, J.
3:40 p.m.	BU Valentine	m5,000	Laadjel, Norman
4:10 p.m.	Don Kirby	m400 - open	Omer
4:30 p.m.	Tyson Invite	m3,000 - inv.	Balazs, Bishop, Burns, Echohawk, Rogers, Smith
	Don Kirby	mHJ	Tintinger
6:00 p.m.	Don Kirby	m600	Carter, Katahdin, Kessler
6:10 p.m.	Don Kirby	w600	Bullock
6:25 p.m.	Don Kirby	m200 - inv.	Ize-Iyamu
6:40 p.m.	Don Kirby	w200 - inv.	Mays, Oliveira

The Ducks enter the busy weekend with 20 top-25 national marks—15 women, five men—including a nation-leading time of 10:48.45 in the women's distance medley relay. The UO quartet of Ali Ince, Ella Clayton, Ella Nelson and Silan Ayyildiz clocked the time at the Razorback Invitational (Jan. 31), good for the No. 2 time in program history.

That top DMR spot will be challenged by the strong field—BYU, New Mexico, NAU, Stanford, Utah and Washington—assembled at the Husky Classic in Seattle (Friday, 2 p.m.).

Oregon in the NCAA Top 25 (as of Feb. 13)
Women's 60 Meters
T6. Jadyn Mays – 7.20

Women's 200 Meters
T5. Jadyn Mays – 22.91

Women's 400 Meters
14. Ella Clayton – 52.49

Men's 800 Meters
15. Matthew Erickson – 1:47.10

Women's 800 Meters
22. Ella Nelson – 2:03.95

Men's Mile
7. Simeon Birnbaum – 3:52.81
19. Tomas Palfrey – 3:54.57

Women's Mile
2. Wilma Nielsen – 4:25.78
5. Silan Ayyildiz – 4:27.84
12. Ali Ince – 4:30.85

Women's 3,000 Meters
7. Silan Ayyildiz – 8:46.33

Women's 5,000 Meters
15. Anika Thompson – 15:31.93

Women's 60m Hurdles
T6. Aaliyah McCormick – 8.06

Women's 4x400m Relay
16. Clayton/Oliveira/Wright/Taylor – 3:34.79

Women's Distance Medley Relay
1. Ince/Clayton/Nelson/Ayyildiz – 10:48.45

Women's Triple Jump
11. Ryann Porter – 13.36m/43-10

Men's Shot Put
17. Kobe Lawrence – 19.21m/63-0.25

Women's Shot Put
5. Jaida Ross – 18.20m/59-8.5

Pentathlon
20. Gianna Bullock – 4,089 points

Heptathlon
23. Koby Kessler – 5,557 points

At the end of the qualifying window in early March, the top 16 declared athletes in each event and top 12 relays will advance to the 2025 NCAA Indoor Championships (March 14-15) in Virginia Beach.

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