With the home portion of their season behind them, the Tigers will face top competitors Friday and Saturday, Feb. 13-14, at a two-day invitational in Boston, Mass., and Fayetteville, Ark.
Tyson Invitational Meet Event Schedule
The meet at the Randal Tyson Track Center will be spread across Friday and Saturday, with most of the Tigers set to compete here. The 2024 Paris Olympic 100m gold medalist, Noah Lyles is scheduled to race the 200m during this Invitational.
Friday begins early in the afternoon with university sprint and distance races,
starting at 1:20 p.m. The 60-meter prelims race throughout the afternoon with 3,000 meters, hurdles and 400-meter events. Championship WA Silver events will take over the evening, including 60 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters, hurdles and 3,000 meters.
Friday field events run alongside the track schedule, beginning at 1:15 p.m., with men’s pole vault and weight throw, adding long jump events mid-afternoon, and concluding with championship field events in the evening. Saturday starts late in the morning with longer distance races such as the 5,000 and the mile, followed by university and championship 200 and 800, mile championships and 4×400 relays in the afternoon.
Field events on Saturday will run through mid-afternoon, featuring pole vault, shot put, high jump and triple jump, with championship events in the mix after 2:15 p.m.
Invitational Schedule: https://arkansasrazorbacks.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/TYSON-TENTATIVE-2.pdf
Valentine Invitational Schedule
The first day of events are slated for the men, and the second day are for the women. It will be held at the BU Track & Tennis Center, with running and field events scheduled throughout the day. Missouri’s team will only have a few of their athletes competing, with the rest at the other invitational. There will be 60m, 60H, 200m and 400m races. Alongside those, there will be the 800m, Mile, 3000m and 5000m for both the men and women athletes.
Meet Events Schedule: https://share.google/cOtWcr9INk59O9j6N
Last Year’s Tyson Invitational
During the first day of the invitational, Drew Rogers beat the 3000m record and claimed the first Tiger to ever cross the finish line in less than eight minutes. Declan Tulley finished with an 8:02.92 mile which was the fifth fastest in the program and Tyler Freiner finished at 8:08.65 with a top-10 program record.
Garick Pozecki claimed a personal best in the men’s weight throw and Reagan Kimrey won the women’s weight throw. Robert Hines ran the 60m with a time of 6.83 seconds to take third.
During the second day’s invitational, Brianna Lee had a personal best in the 800m race and several past Tigers set records along with Kristi Perez-Snyman who broke her school record in the triple jump.
Missouri Invitational Remarks
Senior Sam Innes soared to the top winning the men’s weight throw and Garik Pozecki came in second to round them out for the top-two throwers of the day. On the women’s side, Reagan Kimrey won the women’s weight throw for the second time this season. In the shot put, Chase Crawford had a personal best and won the event, while Sam Albert placed second.
Brianna Utecht won the 60m hurdles and had an eighth place result in the shot put. Senior Robert Hines had the fastest 60m dash of the day at 6.82 seconds. In the mile, Yordanos Zelinski won with a time of 4:10.26 and Marlena Tresnjo placed second in the high jump.
“My training group is Dylan and Sophie, and he’s a 400 meter hurdler, and Sophie is a multi just like me. She’s a freshman this year, and those two are just like my training buddies, and I love them, and the rest of the team also, from throws to cross country, everyone is awesome, and we all have a really, like, tight bond, and there’s just a really great atmosphere with all the athletes here,” Utecht said.
Other women weight throwers, Petra Gombas, Ames Burton and Kaitlyn Morningstar all placed in the top six of their event. In the women’s pole vault, Anna Vedral, Anna Ferguson and Makenna Estes placed in the top-10 during the event.
Dillon Leacock posted a top-10 program history mark in the 400m, winning the event and placing second in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.11 seconds. Raymond Kipkoech placed second in the 3,000.
Thoughts on the Upcoming Meet
With the indoor season on its way out, the Tigers will have to showcase their depth during this weekend’s Invitationals. The idea that there will be a world class runner at the meet can be intimidating, although the team is used to competing against top-level athletes and will have to adapt to high stake environments.
That being said, their meet results from this weekend will dictate who gets to run during the SEC Indoor Championship and further along to the NCAA Indoor Championship.
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