SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Stanford's 123rd outdoor track and field season begins Friday, at the two-day Hornet Invitational at Sacramento State, the site of this year's NCAA West Prelims.
The 31 Cardinal scheduled to compete are throwers, jumpers, and sprinters. None of Stanford's eight competitors from the NCAA Indoor Championships last week will take part.
This will be the first meet for Mackenzie Little and Jenna Gray since they placed 1-2 at the NCAA Championships in the women's javelin last June at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Little threw a school-record 198-0 (60.36 meters) to win and Gray became the second-farthest thrower in Stanford history with a distance of 187-11 (57.29m) to place second.
Little, a three-time Pac-12 champion, begins her senior season. Gray is a junior and earned AVCA All-America first-team honors as a setter this fall while leading Stanford to the NCAA volleyball championship, Gray's second title in three years.
The women's javelin begins at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, with Little, Gray, and teammate Virginia Miller, who was fourth at the Pac-12 Championships last year as a freshman, all competing in the fourth flight.
This meet also marks the collegiate debuts of two prominent Stanford men's recruits: Liam Christensen and Keyshawn King.
Christiansen won the U.S. junior javelin national championship at this same venue in 2017 and redshirted as a Stanford freshman in 2018. In the one meet in which he competed unattached last year, Christensen threw 220-6 (67.20m) to win the Cardinal Classic. The distance would have placed him No. 5 on Stanford's all-time list.
King is a freshman, had the top high school wind-legal triple jump in the nation last year at 51-4 1/4 (15.65m) and was the South Carolina Gatorade boys high school track and field athlete of the year.
Also making their first collegiate appearances are hammer thrower Max McKhann and shot putter Sal Spina for the men, and long jumper Yinka Braimah for the women. Also, Jordan Fong (hammer) and Allie Jones (100, 100 hurdles) make their first collegiate outdoor appearances.
The first Stanford athlete to compete this outdoor season will be sophomore Jake Koffman, who throws in the second flight of the men's hammer throw on Friday. The men's and women's hammer begin at 10 a.m. Landon Ellingson and McKhann throw in the men's third flight and Fong in the women's fourth flight.
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Meet Information:
Hornet Invitational
Where: Sacramento, Calif.
Site: Hornet Stadium
Live results: Click here.
Accepted Entries: Click here (PDF).
Twitter: @stanfordXCTF
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Stanford's Schedule:
Friday
Men
10 a.m.: Hammer (Fl. 2: Jake Koffman; Fl. 3: Landon Ellingson, Max McKhann).
Women
10 a.m.: Hammer (Fl. 4: Jordan Fong).
1:30 p.m.: Shot put (Fl. 4: Jaimi Salone).
Saturday
Men
9:30 a.m.: Triple jump (Fl. 3: Keyshawn King, Fisayo Omilana).
9:30 a.m.: Discus (Fl. 3: Landon Ellingson, Jake Koffman).
9:30 a.m.: Javelin (Fl. 3: Liam Christensen, Will Kingsfield).
10:15 a.m.: Shot put (Fl. 4: Sal Spina).
11:15 a.m.: High jump (Trevor Rex).
1:50 p.m.: 100 hurdles (Sec. 1: Julian Body).
2:40 p.m.: 400 (Sec. 1: Julian Body, Louis Stenmark, Isaac Westlund).
3:30 p.m.: 100 (Sec. 1: Gabriel Navarro).
6:45 p.m.: 200 (Sec. 1: Julian Body, Gabriel Navarro; Sec. 4: Isaac Westlund)
Women
9:30 a.m.: Pole vault (Erika Malaspina, Jackie McNulty, Kaitlyn Merritt, Nicole Summersett).
9:30 a.m.: Javelin (Fl. 4: Jenna Gray, Mackenzie Little, Virginia Miller).
9:30 a.m.: Discus (Fl. 5: Jaimi Salone).
11:15 a.m.: High jump (Rachel Reichenbach).
11:30 a.m.: Triple jump (Fl. 3: Aria Small).
1:30 p.m.: 100 hurdles (Sec. 1: Allie Jones, Hannah Labrie-Smith).
2:20 p.m.: 400 (Sec. 1: Missy Mongiovi, Carolyn Wilson; Sec. 3: Hannah Labrie-Smith).
3 p.m.: 100 (Sec. 1: Ashlan Best; Sec. 4: Allie Jones).
3:50 p.m.: 800 (Sec. 1: Sarah Walker).
6 p.m.: 200 (Sec. 1: Ashlan Best; Sec. 2: Hannah Labrie-Smith, Missy Mongiovi).
