Tigers Split for Busy Weekend at Ole Miss Classic, Raleigh Relays

Thursday, March 23

Raleigh, N.C.

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Tigers Split for Busy Weekend at Ole Miss Classic, Raleigh Relays

Mar 23, 2023 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – The University of Memphis track and field teams are gearing up for a busy weekend of competition at the Ole Miss Classic in Oxford, Miss. and Raleigh Relays in Raleigh, N.C.

Chloe Figgins will compete in Raleigh late tonight in the women's 10,000 meters. Action in Oxford will begin Friday afternoon and run through Saturday.

"We're sending Chloe [Figgins] up to Raleigh to try and get in a quick heat," head coach Kevin Robinson said. "Hoping that pans out for her. The rest of the team is heading to Ole Miss. Hoping to get a solid start for the team and try and get a pulse for where we are, and what we need to work on moving forward. We aren't competing everyone quite yet, but we will have quite a few athletes mixing it up."

Notables:

The Tigers opened their outdoor season last weekend at the Harding Invitational, where Samantha Lenton went three-for-three, winning the women's shot put (14.04m / 46'0.75"), discus (51.26m / 168'2") and hammer throw (58.81m / 192'11).
On the men's side, javelin thrower Vitaliy Favorov took gold at the Harding Invite in his season debut with a throw of 65.10 meters (213'7"), Sascha Salesius Schmidt won the shot put with a personal-best throw of 17.92 meters (58'9.5") and Oliver Tomann picked up a win in the hammer throw with a heave of 53.27 meters (174'9").
Senior pole vaulter Cole Riddle finished the indoor season as a Second Team All-American, placing 14^th at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Albuquerque, N.M. on March 10.
Monica Aldrighetti was AAC Indoor Champion in the pole vault on Feb. 25.
The Tigers claimed 11 medals at the American Athletic Conference Indoor Championships on Feb. 24-25 (one gold, three silver, seven bronze).
The men's squad finished sixth (49.5 points) and the women's team finished seventh (52 points) at the AAC Indoor Championships.

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