Multi-Events Open K.T. Woodman Wednesday AfternoonWICHITA, Kan. -- Wichita State's track and field multi-event athletes open competition in the K.T. Woodman Track and Field Classic Wednesday afternoon inside Cessna Stadium.
The multi-events are the start to four days of track and field headlined by the 69th-Annual K.T. Woodman and the Shocker Pre-State High School meet.
More than 70 high schools are entered in the Pre-State meet, while more than 40 collegiate, small college and junior colleges will compete in the K.T. Woodman. Division I schools include Kansas State, North Texas, UMKC and Oral Roberts, while the junior college entries include Iowa Central and Iowa Western, two of the top two-year schools in the country.
On Wednesday, the K.T. Woodman collegiate competition gets underway with the Men's Decathlon at 12:30 p.m., while the Women's Heptathlon starts at 1 p.m. The men will compete the 100 meters, long jump, shot put, high jump, and 400 meters and the women will compete the 100 meter hurdles, high jump, shot put and 200 meters on Wednesday.
The Multi's wrap up on Thursday with the 110 meter hurdles, discus, pole vault javelin and 1,500 meters in the Men's Decathlon beginning at 10:30 a.m. The Women's Heptathlon completes the multi-event with the long jump, javelin and the 800 meters beginning at 11:45 a.m.
Recent Indoor Pentathlon All-American
Breanne Borman will compete in the Heptathlon with teammate
Gavyn Yetter, whose 5,447 points at the Crowe Rice Multi-Events ranks 12th in the NCAA and 10th in the West Region. Yetter's point total is the fourth-best in Shocker history, while Borman's 2015 personal best point total of 5,406 is the fifth-best ever at WSU.
Also competing for WSU will be first-year transfer
Marteshia Caines, whose 5,110 points at the Shirley Crowe Multis is the ninth-best ever at WSU;
Sierra Hays (4,895);
Carlea Holt (4,656);
Emily Doffing (4,509); and
Ximena Cazenave (4,264).
Pitt States' Emilyn Dearman has the third-best point total to date in the field with 5,240.
In the Decathlon, WSU's
Hunter Veith carries the best point total to date with 7,027 points in the 10 events. His total is just 57 points out of the 10th spot in the Shocker Top 10 all-time list where former Shocker Chris Dickman sits at 7,084 points in 2008.
Pitt State's Tanner McNutt holds the second-best point total heading into the competition with 7,013 points.
Also competing for WSU in the Decathlon will be
John Nicholas (6,827),
Kyle Troxler (6,593),
Seth Buck (6,366) and
Ben Johnson (5,942).
The Pre-State High School portion of the meet starts Thursday at 5 p.m. with the Elite Field Events and at 6:30 p.m. with the Distance Carnival. The complete four-day schedule is
here.
