Track And Field Preview: Redhawks Open

Friday, February 15

Cape Girardeau, Mo.

All Day

University of Memphis

Redhawks Open

Celine Rone, 2018-19 Women's Track and Field

Photo by: Don Claussen

Feb 14, 2019 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

Redhawks Open (Heat Sheets)

Friday meet is final tune-up for next weekend's conference championships.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The University of Memphis track and field team heads to Cape Girardeau, Mo., for the Redhawks Open Friday, Feb. 15 in what has become the annual "tune-up" meet for the Tigers heading into the conference championships.

Friday's action starts at 4 p.m. (CT) with the field events. The running events begin at 6:30 p.m. (CT). All events are scheduled for the Southeast Missouri Student Recreation Center.

For the 11^th-consecutive year, Memphis is competing in Southeast Missouri's home meet the week prior to the conference championships meet.

Team Scoring
The Redhawks Open is a non-scoring meet.

Tigers Tidbits

This is the 16^th indoor season the Tigers are competing in Southeast Missouri's Redhawks Open, dating back to the 2003-04 campaign.
Friday's meet at Southeast Missouri is a homecoming for head coach Kevin Robinson, who hails from Perryville, Mo. Perryville is an estimated 45-minute drive from Cape Girardeau.
The past two seasons, the Tigers have used the Redhawks Open as momentum-builder for the American Athletic Conference Championships, and it's worked. At the 2017 and 2018 Redhawks Opens, Memphis has combined for 19 titles and 46 top-three performances.
In the 2018 meet, the Tigers swept the top-three spots in the men's 55 meters and women's shot put.
At last year meet, DeeNia McMiller kept improving her mark in the women's weight throw, shattering her previous-best by nearly two feet in the event.

Tigers Records Set In 2018-19
Men
Davon DeMoss – 60m (6.61), 200m (21.10)
Julian Sanchez-Pinto – 5000m (14:31.49)
Jordan Wesner – high jump (7-4.5; 2.25m)
Women
Saida Burns-Moore – triple jump (42-8.25; 13.01m)
DeeNia McMiller – weight throw (66-11; 20.40m)

Tigers In the Nation's Top-50
Men
Davon DeMoss – 60m (10^th), 200m (44^th)
Sir Newton Lee – 400m (45^th)
Jordan Wesner – high jump (8^th)
Olushola Olojo – triple jump (41^st)
4x400m relay (40^th)

Women
Saida Burns-Moore – high jump (41^st), triple jump (22^nd)
DeeNia McMiller – weight throw (28^th)