
Men’s T&F Heads to Tom Tellez Invite
4/3/2025 11:11:00 AM | Men's Track & Field
HOUSTON – The Rice Owls men's track & field team is back in action this weekend at the University of Houston's Tom Tellez Invite.
Rice will have 24 athletes competing in 16 events this weekend.
The Owls are coming off a successful weekend at the Victor Lopez Classic, where several athletes claimed event titles and cracked into the top 10 Rice all-time lists in their respective events.
Elliot Metcalf (1500m), Andrew Murray (3000m steeplechase), Ben Tijerina (10000m) and Juan Marais (discus) all claimed event titles at the meet.
Tijerina's time of 30:27.86, moved him into ninth all-time at Rice in the 10000m. Marais also joined the top 10 list with his throw of 56.47m in the discus to move into fifth all-time at Rice.
Sultan Bakare moved into ninth all-time in the shot put with a throw of 17.32m.
Scheduled Rice competitors
110m Hurdles – Ethan Judge
100m – Reeve Tarter, Luke Ivy
200m – Luke Ivy, Reeve Tarter, Kevin Schott, Sachin Shurpalekar
400m – Reeve Tarter, Jakob Gilbreth, Luke Ivy
400m hurdles – Kamden O'Connor, Thomas Ma
800m –Nathan Turman, Marcus Gaitan
1500m – Vedant Bhattacharyya, Caleb Wilson, Brandon Martz, Luke DeMahy
4x100 – Adeyiga, Shurpalekar, Schott, Trinidad
4x400 – Turman, Trinidad, Shurpalekar, Schott
4x400 – Gilbreth, McGrath, Adeyiga, Gaitan
Hammer Throw – Cal Abdulky, Daniel Sowell
Shot Put – Daniel Sowell, Sultan Bakare
Long Jump – Reeve Tarter, Luke Ivy
Discus – Luke Ivy, Augustus Henry, Juan Marais
High Jump – Theodoros Katopodis
Pole Vault – Matt Kumar, William Hagemeier
Javelin – Augustus Henry
Rice will have 24 athletes competing in 16 events this weekend.
The Owls are coming off a successful weekend at the Victor Lopez Classic, where several athletes claimed event titles and cracked into the top 10 Rice all-time lists in their respective events.
Elliot Metcalf (1500m), Andrew Murray (3000m steeplechase), Ben Tijerina (10000m) and Juan Marais (discus) all claimed event titles at the meet.
Tijerina's time of 30:27.86, moved him into ninth all-time at Rice in the 10000m. Marais also joined the top 10 list with his throw of 56.47m in the discus to move into fifth all-time at Rice.
Sultan Bakare moved into ninth all-time in the shot put with a throw of 17.32m.
Scheduled Rice competitors
110m Hurdles – Ethan Judge
100m – Reeve Tarter, Luke Ivy
200m – Luke Ivy, Reeve Tarter, Kevin Schott, Sachin Shurpalekar
400m – Reeve Tarter, Jakob Gilbreth, Luke Ivy
400m hurdles – Kamden O'Connor, Thomas Ma
800m –Nathan Turman, Marcus Gaitan
1500m – Vedant Bhattacharyya, Caleb Wilson, Brandon Martz, Luke DeMahy
4x100 – Adeyiga, Shurpalekar, Schott, Trinidad
4x400 – Turman, Trinidad, Shurpalekar, Schott
4x400 – Gilbreth, McGrath, Adeyiga, Gaitan
Hammer Throw – Cal Abdulky, Daniel Sowell
Shot Put – Daniel Sowell, Sultan Bakare
Long Jump – Reeve Tarter, Luke Ivy
Discus – Luke Ivy, Augustus Henry, Juan Marais
High Jump – Theodoros Katopodis
Pole Vault – Matt Kumar, William Hagemeier
Javelin – Augustus Henry
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