Five Advance for UKTF on Thursday at NCAA Championships
Results | High Jump Broadcast | Friday ESPN BroadcastEUGENE, Ore. – The No. 2-ranked Kentucky women’s track and field team advanced to five running finals, which will take place on Saturday, at the NCAA Outdoor Championship in front of 9,027 fans at Oregon’s Hayward Field on Thursday. The Wildcats will have six scoring opportunities to score points on Saturday, the final day of the meet. The women’s team will have off on Friday, when the men’s competition concludes.The Wildcats did not score points from any of their three field-event scoring opportunities on Thursday. Kentucky advanced the aforementioned five from a possible 13 running-event entries that started semifinals on Thursday.Kentucky’s 4x100m relay advanced to the university’s first NCAA 4x100m final since 1996. The team of Javianne Oliver, Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, Precious Hitchcock and Kianna Gray ran 43.55 to place second in heat three and advance automatically No. 5 overall.Camacho-Quinn came back an hour later and ran the top qualifying time of the 100m hurdles semifinal: 12.75Q (+1.7) to advance. The redshirt freshman also made the 200m final on time running 23.20 (+0.3) to advance on time as she was third in her heat.Freshman Kianna Gray ran 11.20Q (+1.3), the No. 3 qualifying time, to make her first NCAA final in the 100m.Kiah Seymour made the 400m hurdles final, running 55.89 to make the final on time as she was third in her heat. The time was the third fastest qualifying time overall.Points are scored at the NCAA Championships by finishing in the top eight of each event. The points are awarded on a 10-8-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis with 10 going to the winner and one point to eighth place.Decathlon quick recapTim Duckworth placed 11th in his first NCAA decathlon, three spots outside scoring position, with a score of 7596 points. Cameron Short did not start the 1,500m. Friday outlookPoints are available to Kentucky on Friday in the men’s high jump and 110m hurdles.For the second consecutive season the NCAA is utilizing a championships schedule featuring men’s teams on Wednesday and Friday and women’s teams on Thursday and Saturday. Caveats are multi-events as the men’s decathlon will was contested Wednesday and Thursday and the women’s heptathlon will be contested on Friday and Saturday as those events are generally expected to be completed in consecutive days.The broadcast informationThe 2016 NCAA Championships will be broadcast on the ESPN family of networks.Friday’s men’s finals will be broadcast from 8:30-11 p.m. on ESPN. UK fans can watch Xaivier McAllister on an ESPN3 high jump only stream starting at 8 p.m. ET.Saturday’s women’s finals will air from 6:30-9 p.m. on ESPN.The NCAA Championships precedentThe Kentucky women’s team’s NCAA record finish came a year ago when the Wildcats finished as national runner-up with 50 points.The Kentucky men’s team placed 44th with five points a year ago. UK’s record NCAA outdoor finish is ninth place with 25 points in 2008.The most up-to-date coverage of the UK track and field program is available via @KentuckyTrack handles on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
Thursday Running Events
Rnd
Results
Women 4x100 M Relay
Semifinals
5. Kentucky (Oliver, Camacho-Quinn, Hitchcock, Gray): 43.55Q (+1.7) 9. Jacklyn Howell:
Women 100 M Hurdles
Semifinals
1. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: 12.75Q (+1.7) 9. Jacklyn Howell: 13.04 (+1.7)
Women 100 M
Semifinals
3. Kianna Gray: 11.20Q (+1.3) – PR 11. Javianne Oliver: 11.40 (+1.3) 12. Destiny Carter: 11.41 (+1.5)
Women 800 M
Semifinals
22. Ariah Graham: 2:08.71
Women 400 M Hurdles
Semifinals
3. Kiah Seymour: 55.89q
Women 200 M
Semifinals
8. Jasmine Camacho-Quinn: 23.20q (+0.3) 12. Kianna Gray: 23.41 (+0.3) 13. Precious Hitchcock: 23.41 (+0.3) 23. Destiny Carter: 23.90 (-0.5)
Women 4x400 M Relay
Semifinals
17. Asemota, Mitchell, Seymour, Gray: 3:35.46
Thursday Field Events
Result
Women Hammer
16. Beckie Famurewa: 197’8”/60.24m
Women Pole Vault
20. Olivia Gruver: 13’3.5”/4.05m
Women Javelin
17. Sarah Blake: 159’5”/48.60m
Time
Friday UK Events
Rnd
UK Entry
8:00 PM
Men's High Jump
Prelim & Final
Xaivier McAllister
9:12PM
Men's 110m Hurdles
Finals
Lane 2: Nick Anderson
Start Time
Saturday Running Events
UK Entry
3:32 PM
Women 4x100 M Relay Final
Kentucky
4:12 PM
Women 100 M Hurdles Final
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
4:22 PM
Women 100 M Final
Kianna Gray
4:57 PM
Women 400 M Hurdles Final
Kiah Seymour
5:07 PM
Women 200 M Final
Jasmine Camacho-Quinn
Start Time
Saturday Field Events
UK Entry
3:30 PM
Women Triple Jump
Sha’Keela Saunders
Decathlon
UK Notes
100 M
9. Tim Duckworth: 10.90 (+0.9) – 833 points 14. Cameron Short: 11.06 (+1.3) – 847 points
Long Jump
9. Tim Duckworth: 23’4”/7.11m (+0.5) – 840 points 18. Cameron Short: 22’6.25”/6.86m (+1.1) – 781 points
Shot Put
8. Cameron Short: 46’2.25”/14.08m – 733 points 23. Tim Duckworth: 39’8.5”/12.10m – 612 points (PR)
High Jump
1. Tim Duckworth: 6’10.75”/2.10m – 896 points 3. Cameron Short: 6'8.25"/2.04m – 840 points
400 M
16. Cameron Short: 50.67 – 784 points (PR) 18. Tim Duckworth: 50.72 – 782 points (PR)
Total
9. Tim Duckworth: 4013 10. Cameron Short: 3985
110 M Hurdles
10. Tim Duckworth: 14.80 (+0.4) – 874 points 14. Cameron Short: 14.91 (+0.3) – 868 points
Discus
9. Cameron Short: 134’7”/41.02m – 685 points 13. Tim Duckworth: 131’5”/40.07m – 666 points
Pole Vault
5. Tim Duckworth: 16’5.75”/5m – 910 points 17. Cameron Short: 13’9.25”/4.20m – 673 points
Javelin
12. Tim Duckworth: 175’11”/53.63m – 642 points 21. Cameron Short: 153’6”/46.79m – 541 points
1500 M
21. Tim Duckworth: 5:12.27 – 491 points Short: DNS
Total
11. Tim Duckworth: 7596 Short: DNF
Wednesday Running Events
Rnd
UK Entries
Men 1 10 M Hurdles
Semifinals
7. Nick Anderson: 13.67Q (-0.8)
Men 10000 M
Final
6. Jacob Thomson: 29:13.73 – 3 points
Wednesday Field Events
Rnd
UK Entries
Men Long Jump
Finals
12. Fred Dorsey: 24’5.5”/7.47m