April 7, 2004

LUBBOCK, Texas - Due to a last minute schedule change, the track and field team will compete in San Angelo, Texas this weekend at the 33rd Annual ASU David Noble Relays. The team was scheduled to compete at the John Jacobs Track and Field Invitational in Norman, Okla., but because of construction delays on the track facility the meet was cancelled.

The team is coming off an appearance at the 77th Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas where the team turned in one first-place finish, three new school records and 14 regional qualifying marks. The meet was highlighted by the "three-peat" feat of the men's sprint medley relay team. In a time of 3:14.09, the team of juniors Matt Stewart, Tyree Gailes, Albert Booker and Jonathan Johnson won the sprint medley for the third consecutive year. This has not been accomplished since 1968-1970 by Kansas State

Tech also placed several athletes in Trackwire's Dandy Dozen for the first ranking of the season. After setting a school record time of 3:34.14 at the Texas Relays, the women's 4x400 team is ranked 10th. The men's 4x400 team is also ranked, eighth, after a 3:05.44 time in the finals of the Texas relays. Both of these marks are also regional qualifying times. Senior Jason Young enters the ranking seventh in the discus while senior Aki Heikkinen is seventh in the decathlon. Young finished third at the Texas Relays with a throw of 195'-4" (59.55m). Junior Bobby Most is ranked ninth in the pole vault after finishing fourth at the Texas Relays clearing a height of 17'-8.50" (5.40m). Johnson enters the ranking as an individual, ninth in the 800m run.

The meet is scheduled to begin at 12:30 p.m. with the running preliminaries and field events with running finals scheduled to begin at 5:25 p.m. Results will be available immediately following the meet at www.angelo.edu/services/athletics.