BERKELEY, Calif. – While many of Stanford’s distance runners are at the Penn Relays, many of the Cardinal squad compete at the Brutus Hamilton Open and Challenge at Cal’s Edwards Stadium. The two-day event includes 27 Stanford athletes.
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Meet information
What: Brutus Hamilton Open and Challenge
When: Friday-Saturday
Where: Berkeley, Calif.
Site: Edwards Stadium
Events begin:
Friday: Field, 8:30 a.m.; Running, 12:30 p.m.
Saturday: Field, 10 a.m.; Running, 1:20 p.m.
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Among the storylines for Stanford:
• Freshman decathlete Harrison Williams, the reigning U.S. junior national champion who already is No. 3 in Stanford history, is scheduled to compete in four events. Williams competes in the long jump (11:30 a.m.), 110-meter high hurdles (1:20 p.m.), and discus (2:30 p.m.) on Friday, and high jump on Saturday (12:45 p.m.). Williams made his collegiate outdoor debut by finishing as the top collegian and second overall in the Texas Relays decathlon last month.
• Estonian sophomore Jaak Uudmae is scheduled to make his collegiate debut in his specialty, the triple jump. Not only that, but he’s going to follow his winning high jump debut at the Big Meet with another. Uudmae, whose father of the same name won the 1980 Olympic triple jump gold for the USSR, redshirted as a true freshman last year and has mostly long-jumped in 2015. He will high jump Friday at 2:15 p.m. and triple jump Saturday at 3.
• Discus throwers Valarie Allman and Rebecca Hammar seek to continue their momentum on Saturday (12:30 p.m.). The Card teammates rank Nos. 3-4 on Stanford’s all-time list after Hammar set a personal best of 182-7 at the Stanford Invitational and Allman established her best of 188-7 to win the Big Meet last week. Allman ranks No. 5 on the season collegiate list and Allman is No. 9.
• Kaitlyn Williams, a junior, will run her first collegiate 800 on Saturday. This is her first outdoor season and she opened with the 400 (56.84) and 4x400 against Cal at the Big Meet on April 11. She ran the 800 occasionally ran the 800 while at Mansfield Timberview High in Texas.
• Sophomore Vanessa Fraser is having a big year. She was second in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation indoor championships in the 3,000. At the Stanford Invitational earlier this month, she dropped her personal best in the 5,000 by 19 seconds, to 16:01.23. Fraser, who ranks No. 22 in the nation in that event, will work on her speed this weekend. On Saturday (3:20 p.m.), she will race in her first 1,500 since last year’s Brutus Hamilton.
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Stanford Schedule
Friday
8:30 a.m.: Women’s hammer (Valarie Allman, Lena Giger)
10 a.m.: Women’s long jump (Marisa Kwiatkowski)
10:30 a.m.: Men’s hammer (Tristen Newman)
11 a.m.: Women’s pole vault (Taylore Jaques)
11:30 a.m.: Men’s long jump (Harrison Williams)
12:30 p.m.: Women’s 1,500 (Abbie McNulty*)
12:30 p.m.: Men’s shot put (Tristen Newman)
12:50 p.m.: Men’s 1,500 (Kevin Bishop, John Bordoni, Ryan Silva, Tai Dinger*)
1:05 p.m.: Women’s 100 hurdles (Amber Lewis)
1:20 p.m.: Men’s 110 hurdles (Harrison Williams)
1:45 p.m.: Men’s 400 (Frank Kurtz)
2:15 p.m.: Women’s 800 (Karina Shepard*)
2:15 p.m.: Men’s high jump (Jaak Uudmae)
2:30 p.m.: Men’s discus (Harrison Williams)
2:40 p.m.: Women’s 400 hurdles (Amber Lewis)
3:20 p.m.: Men’s 200 (Frank Kurtz, Miguel Shaw)
3:50 p.m.: Men’s 400 hurdles (Daniel Brady, Colin Dolese)
4:30 p.m.: Men’s javelin (Charles Kerr, Andrew Rondema)
6:30 p.m.: Women’s javelin (Victoria Smith)
Saturday
10 a.m.: Women’s long jump (Daryth Gayles)
10 a.m.: Women’s shot put (Lena Giger)
12:30 p.m.: Men’s pole vault (Dalton Duvio, Dylan Duvio, Garrett Starkey)
12:30 p.m.: Women’s discus (Valarie Allman, Rebecca Hammar)
12:45 p.m.: Men’s high jump (Harrison Williams)
1:30 p.m.: Women’s triple jump (Carla Forbes, Marisa Kwiatkowski)
2 p.m.: Men’s discus (Nick Budincich)
2:30 p.m.: Men’s 100 (Isaiah Brandt-Sims)
2:40 p.m.: Women’s 400 hurdles (Amber Lewis)
2:50 p.m.: Men’s 400 hurdles (Daniel Brady, Colin Dolese)
3 p.m.: Women’s 800 (Kaitlyn Williams)
3 p.m.: Men’s triple jump (Jaak Uudmae)
3:20 p.m.: Women’s 1,500 (Vanessa Fraser, Danielle Katz, Julia Maxwell)
3:30 p.m.: Men’s mile (Will Drinkwater)
3:55 p.m.: Men’s 4x400 (Daniel Brady, Colin Dolese, Miguel Shaw, additional runner)
* Stanford redshirt