Four meets coming up for Hogs’ top-ranked women’s track team

FAYETTEVILLE — Coming off the John McDonnell Invitational looking to nail down wind-legal marks, No. 1 Arkansas will spread out across the country one last time, competing at four meets this weekend before the final stretch run to the postseason.

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“We have our vaulters going to Kansas Relays right up the road, we have our sprint crew going to LSU for their Gold Alumni Meet, Taylor Werner is going to go to Mt. SAC Relays to run the 10,000-meters, and then Taylor will meet the rest of the distance crew at Stanford and complete the weekend,” said coach Lance Harter.

“It’s that time of year where traditionally we’d have people going to Baylor or some other competition but the way the meets were working out as far as quality of competition and so on, we wanted to make sure we had our people in the right place at the right time,” Harter continued.

The women’s track & field team is currently ranked No. 1 in the nation, according to the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) and boast seven performances in the Top-10 of the NCAA including Taliyah Brooks — the national leader in the long jump.

No. 1 | Taliyah Brooks – Long Jump 6.78m (22’-3”) *school record
No. 2 | Taliyah Brooks – Heptathlon 5946-points
No. 2 | Lexi Jacobus – Pole Vault 4.55m (14’-11”)
No. 3 | Victoria Hoggard – Pole Vault 4.50m (14’-9”)
No. 7 | Jada Baylark – 100-meters 11.09
No. 7 | Janeek Brown – 100-meter hurdles 12.90
No. 7 | Arkansas 4-x-100 meter relay 43.40 *No. 2 in program history

Entries for this weekend’s slate of competition include:
Mt. SAC Relays
Thursday
10,000-meters: Taylor Werner

Kansas Relays
Friday
Pole Vault: Morgan Hartsell, Elizabeth Ramos Mata
High Jump: Carmen Sitz

LSU Alumni Gold
Saturday
100-meters: Jada Baylark, Taliyah Brooks, Janeek Brown, Tamara Kuykendall, Kiara Parker
100-meter Hurdles: Janeek Brown
200-meters: Jada Baylark, Taliyah Brooks, Tamara Kuykendall, Kiara Parker
400-meters: Morgan Burks Magee, Sydney Davis
4-x-100-meter Relay: Janeek Brown, Kiara Parker, Jada Baylark, Morgan Burks-Magee
4-x-400-meter Relay: Morgan Burks-Magee, Kiara Parker, Jada Baylark, Sydney Davis

Field Events:
Long Jump: Taliyah Brooks

Cardinal Classic
Friday
5,000-meters: Sydney Brown, Abby Gray, Rachel Nichwitz, Maddy Reed
800-meters: Kailee Sawyer & Ruth Wiggins

Saturday
Steeple: Devin Clark & Regan Hime
1,500-meters: Micah Huckabee, Carina Viljoen