2018 UW Indoor PreviewJan 12, 2018
FloTrack Weekend Viewer's Guide
FloTrack Weekend Viewer's Guide
A viewer's guide that features key races and start times from the UW Indoor Preview, Nittany Lion Challenge and Hawkeye Invitational.
This weekend FloTrack has live events from Seattle, State College, and Iowa City.
Below is a viewing guide to help you keep tabs on all the action from across the nation. For in-depth coverage on each meet (including a full schedule and entries), be sure to visit the coverage pages for the UW Indoor Preview, Nittany Lion Challenge, and the Hawkeye Invitational.
All listed times are Central Standard, and remember that meet schedules are subject to change.
Time | Meet | Event | What to Watch |
11:00 AM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Men’s Mile | Isaiah Harris and Cas Loxsom are entered in their first race since the summer track season. |
11:15 AM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Women’s Mile | Penn State All-Americans Tessa Barrett and Tori Gerlach will race Mid-East Region cross country champion Bella Burda of Villanova. |
12:25 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Women’s 60m Hurdles Prelims | Mulit-event star Kendell Williams is entered as is Oregon’s Alaysha Johnson. |
12:40 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Men’s 60m Hurdles Prelims | Aries Merritt races in Seattle for the first time in his career. |
12:50 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Women’s 60m Prelims | Loaded field featuring Ariana Washington, Deajah Stevens, Ashley Henderson, Shae Anderson, Briyahna DesRosiers, Jasmin Reed, Makenzie Dunmore, and Alaysha Johnson. |
1:00 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Men’s 60m Prelims | Former Oregon Duck Kyree King will race along with Joe Morris, who has run 6.52 for the 60m. |
1:10 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Men’s 400m | 2017 Big 12 indoor 600-yard champion Jaymes Dennison has an indoor 400m PB of 47.79 for Iowa State. |
1:20 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Women’s 1000m | Hannah Fields of the Brooks Beasts in the favorite, but will get tested by collegians Olivia Baker and Brooke Feldmeier. First chance to see Oregon transfers Amanda Gehrich and Sabrina Southerland. |
1:35 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Men’s 1000m | Yomif Kejelcha’s first race for the Nike Oregon Project. The Ethiopian won gold at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in the 3000m. Drew Windle and David Ribich are also entered. |
1:35 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Men’s 1000m | Iowa State’s Roshon Roomes has a 400m PB of 46.98 and 1:47.69 for 800m. Robby Creese will be doubling back from the mile and has a 1000m PB of 2:19.53. |
1:40 PM | Hawkeye Invitational | Men’s 1000m | Zach Black and Dan Curts are racing for the Cyclones. Both have personal bests faster than the facility record. |
1:45 PM | Hawkeye Invitational | Women’s 1000m | The fast section is comprised of four runners from Iowa State and one from Iowa. Evelyne Guay of Iowa State has the fastest seed time. |
1:50 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Women’s Mile | The field features many women running both the mile and the 1000m. Savanna Colón (neé Camacho) is running her first race for the Brooks Beasts. |
2:05 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Men’s 600m | Collegiate debut of Villanova’s Brian Faust, who ran 47.16 for 400m in high school. Gregory Chiles of Virginia Tech (46.98) and Harry Purcell (47.57) of Villanova also entered. |
2:10 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Men’s Mile | An Oregon-heavy field that also features pros Lopez Lomong, Brandon Kidder, and Chad Noelle. |
2:20 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Women’s 600m | Siofra Cleirigh Buttner headlines the field. She’s run 2:01.98 for 800m outdoors and represented Ireland in last summer’s world championships. |
2:40 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Women’s 60m Final | If form holds, the final should be filled with current, and former, Oregon Ducks. |
2:47 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Men’s 60m Final | King and Morris should join a group of collegians in the final. |
3:00 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Women’s 60m Hurdles Final | Based on the prelim entries, should be a quick final featuring Oregon’s Alaysha Johnson. |
3:10 PM | UW Indoor Preview | Men’s 60m Hurdles Final | Barring something unexpected, another chance to see Aries Merritt who says he’s the healthiest he’s been since 2013. |
3:10 PM | Hawkeye Invitational | Men’s Mile | Another Iowa/Iowa State battle. Nathan Rodriguez of Iowa State has the fastest personal best of 4:05.97. |
3:20 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Men’s 4 x 800m | Teams from Bucknell, Georgetown, Penn State, and Villanova are entered. |
3:30 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Women’s 4 x 800m | UCONN, Penn State, Cornell, Pittsburgh, Georgetown, Villanova are scheduled to start. All schools have entered multiple teams. |
3:40 PM | Hawkeye Invitational | Men’s 200m | Mar’yea Harris, who has an outdoor PB of 45.45 in the 400m, is the top seed |
3:45 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Men’s 3000m | Georgetown is sending All-Americans Jonathan Green and Scott Carpenter. |
3:45 PM | UW Preview | Men’s 400m | 800m specialist Drew Windle is on the start list. How fast can the half-miler run a 400? |
4:05 PM | UW Preview | Women’s 600m | Sifan Hassan has scratched. Kendell Williams will doing the rare hurdles/600m double. |
4:20 PM | UW Preview | Men’s 600m | Heavy presence of Oregon and Stanford athletes in this race including Austin Tamagno of Oregon. |
4:35 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Men’s 4 x 400m | Isaiah Harris is schedule to run a leg on one of Penn State’s squads. |
4:40 PM | UW Preview | Women’s 800m | Kaela Edwards and Baylee Mires are the favorites and will be looking for the 2:03 standard to qualify for the U.S. indoor championships. |
4:50 PM | Nittany Lion Challenge | Women’s 4 x 400m | Nine schools have entered teams, including Penn State, Georgetown, Virginia Tech, Pittsburgh, Maryland, Villanova, and UCONN. |
4:50 PM | UW Preview | Men’s 800m | Clayton Murphy’s first race in a Nike Oregon Project jersey. |
5:35 PM | UW Preview | Men’s 200m | Marcus Chambers will run his first race after signing a professional contract with Nike. |
6:25 PM | UW Preview | Women’s 3000m | Fascinating field featuring New York City Marathon champion Shalane Flanagan running her first indoor race since 2011, 1500m specialist Sara Vaughn and collegians Amy Eloise-Neale, Alli Cash and Maddie Meyers. |
7:05 PM | UW Preview | Men’s 3000m | Craig Engels of the Nike Oregon Project headlines the field that also features Michael Jordan, Andrew Bumbalough, Robbie Farnham-Rose, Sam Parsons and Austin O'Neil. |