No. 18/18 Track & Field preview: NCAA West Preliminaries

AUSTIN, Texas – No. 18/18 Texas Track & Field resumes outside postseason competitors on Wednesday, May 27 on the 2026 NCAA West Prelims in Fayetteville, Ark. Texas has 35 student-athletes competing for spots on the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore.

No. 18/18 Texas at 2026 NCAA West Preliminaries

When: Wednesday, May 27 – Saturday, May 30

Where: Fayetteville, Ark,

Facility: John McDonnell Field

Watch: ESPN+

HOW TO FOLLOW:

• Live stats might be obtainable on Flash Results.
• Fans also can comply with @TexasTFXC for stay updates of the meet on Twitter/X.
• The meet will stream on ESPN+ with protection starting at 6 p.m. CT on Wednesday and Thursday and 5 p.m. CT on Friday and Saturday.
• Meet Schedule | Meet Information

NOTES

• Kody Blackwood ranks No. 2 nationally within the 400-meter hurdles following his SEC title-winning and facility-record efficiency of 48.26 on the SEC Outdoor Championships. The mark tied the SEC Championship meet file and moved him to No. 2 on the Texas all-time performer record with the third-fastest time in program historical past. Blackwood additionally ranks No. 20 nationally within the 400 meters at 45.24, making him the fourth-fastest performer in Texas historical past.
• Kendrick Smallwood ranks No. 4 nationally within the 110-meter hurdles after breaking his personal Texas college file with a silver-medal time of 13.12 on the SEC Outdoor Championships. Smallwood now owns the highest 15 performances in program historical past.
• Amelliah Birdow ranks No. 3 nationally within the 400-meter hurdles following her bronze-medal end and personal-best 54.79 on the SEC Outdoor Championships. The efficiency moved Birdow to No. 3 on the Texas all-time performer record and ranks because the ninth-fastest time in program historical past.
• Also among the many nation’s prime performers within the ladies’s 400-meter hurdles are Mackenzie Collins at No. 11 nationally and Anouk Krause-Jentsch at No. 14.
• In the ladies’s 100 meters, Abigail Wolfe ranks No. 5 nationally with a time of 11.01, whereas Carleta Bernard sits No. 10 nationally at 11.04.
• Texas has each ladies’s relay squads ranked ninth nationally. The 4×100-meter relay staff of Bernard, Elise Cooper, Wolfe and Naomi London ranks among the many nation’s prime dash relay teams, whereas the 4×400-meter relay quartet of Birdow, Cooper, Ramiah Elliott and Bayleigh Minor additionally sits contained in the nationwide prime 10.
• Texas additionally boasts a pair of nationally ranked athletes within the ladies’s 400 meters, led by Minor at No. 13 nationally with a season-best 51.22. Cooper follows carefully at No. 14 nationally with a time of 51.24.
• Michael Pinones ranks No. 8 nationally within the shot put after recording a season-best throw of 19.79m (64-11.25) on the Texas Invitational. Pinones positioned fourth on the SEC Outdoor Championships.
• Giavonna Meeks ranks No. 11 nationally within the hammer throw after inserting second on the SEC Outdoor Championships with a Texas program-record mark of 68.23m (223-10). All six of her throws in the course of the competitors ranked among the many prime eight performances at school historical past, and she or he now owns the highest 19 throws in Texas historical past.
• Kelsey Daniel ranks No. 7 nationally within the triple bounce after incomes silver on the SEC Outdoor Championships with a personal-best 16.64m (54-7.25). The mark moved him to No. 4 on the Texas all-time performer record and ranks because the eighth-best efficiency at school historical past. Daniel additionally ranks No. 17 nationally within the lengthy bounce.
• Chris Brinkley Jr. ranks No. 21 nationally within the 400-meter hurdles after scoring for Texas with an eighth-place end on the SEC Outdoor Championships, whereas Jayden Jones ranks among the many convention leaders within the 200 meters at 20.40.
• Tabea Eitel ranks No. 16 nationally within the heptathlon after scoring 5,648 factors on the Texas Relays as the highest collegiate finisher. The whole ranks third in Texas historical past.
• Jeanne Le Goff strengthened her standing because the No. 8 performer in Texas historical past after inserting fourth within the triple bounce on the SEC Outdoor Championships with an out of doors personal-best mark of 13.22m (43-4.50).
• In the boys’s pole vault, Sam Abati matched his personal-best clearance of 5.50m (18-0.50) to put fifth on the SEC Outdoor Championships. The mark ties him because the No. 8 performer in program historical past.
• A trio of Longhorns are set to compete within the ladies’s 1,500 meters. Isabel Conde de Frankenberg positioned fifth on the SEC Championships in 4:12.97, recording the fourth-fastest efficiency in Texas historical past, whereas Perez completed seventh in 4:14.18 to maneuver to No. 3 on the Texas all-time performer record with the sixth-fastest efficiency in program historical past. Elizabeth Pickett additionally superior to the occasion closing after working a personal-best 4:18.33 within the prelims.
• Sophie Atkinson inserting seventh within the 10,000 meters on the SEC Outdoor Championships in 33:42.19 and eighth within the 5,000 meters in 16:03.64. Her 10,000-meter efficiency ranks because the Tenth-fastest in Texas historical past.
• Hudson Bennett positioned sixth within the males’s 3,000m steeplechase on the SEC Championships with a 12-second private better of 8:37.71, shifting to No. 8 on the Texas all-time performer record.
• The males’s 4×400-meter relay quartet of Waly Bathily, Kody Blackwood, Sihle Mahlangu and Logan Popelka ranks No. 16 nationally after working a season-best 3:04.00 on the SEC Outdoor Championships.
• Texas additionally owns the No. 22 nationwide rating within the males’s 4×100-meter relay. The quartet of Kendrick Smallwood, Neo Modibe, Jayden Jones and John Rutledge posted a season-best 39.10 earlier this season.

MEN

Sam Abati – Pole Vault

Osawese Agbonkonkon – High Jump

Waly Bathily – 4x400m

Hudson Bennett – 3000m Steeplechase

Kody Blackwood – 400m Hurdles, 4x400m

Chris Brinkley Jr. – 400m Hurdles, 4x400m

Xavier Butler –  4x100m, 4x400m

Kelsey Daniel – Long Jump, Triple Jump

Shaiquan Dunn – Shot Put, Discus

David Jarolimek – Discus

Jayden Jones – 200m, 4x100m

Sihle Mahlangu – 4x100m

Michael Pinones – Shot Put

Logan Popelka – 400m, 4x400m

Gabriel Remy – 4x100m

John Rutledge – 4x100m, 4x400m

Kendrick Smallwood – 110m Hurdles, 4x100m

Mathis Vaitulukina – Long Jump

WOMEN

Sophie Atkinson – 5000m

Carleta Bernard – 100m, 4x100m

Amelliah Birdow – 400mH, 4x400m

Mackenzie Collins – 400mH, 4x400m

Isabel Conde de Frankenberg – 800m, 1500m

Elise Cooper – 400m, 4x100m, 4x400m

Tabea Eitel – 4x400m

Ramiah Elliott – 400m, 4x100m, 4x400m

Anouk Krause-Jentsch – 400mH

Jeanne Le Goff – High Jump, Triple Jump

Naomi London – 100m, 4x100m

Giavonna Meeks – Hammer

Bayleigh Minor – 400m, 4x400m

Holly Okuku – 200m, 4x100m, 4x400m

Mia Perez – 1500m

Elizabeth Pickett – 1500m

Abigail Wolfe – 100m, 4x100m, 4x400m

Wednesday, May 27

6:00 p.m. – Men’s 110m Hurdles First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

6:30 p.m. – Men’s Long Jump First Round (4 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

7:00 p.m. – Men’s Pole Vault Semifinals (2 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

7:00 p.m. – Men’s Shot Put First Round (4 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

• Flight 3, Position 6: Shaiquan Dunn
• Flight 4, Position 7: Michael Pinones

7:25 p.m. – Men’s 400m First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

8:20 p.m. – Men’s 400m Hurdles First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

8:45 p.m. – Men’s 200m First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

Thursday, May 28

9:30 a.m. – Women’s Hammer First Round (4 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

6:30 p.m. – Women’s 1500m First Round (4 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 5 Each Heat Plus Next 4 Best Times

7:00 p.m. – Women’s 100m First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

7:25 p.m. – Women’s 400m First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

8:20 p.m. – Women’s 400m Hurdles First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

8:45 p.m. – Women’s 200m Hurdles First Round (6 Heats)

                  Top 24 Advance: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 6 Best Times

Friday, May 29

1:00 p.m. – Men’s Discus First Round (4 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

2:00 p.m. – Men’s High Jump First Round (2 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

5:00 p.m. – Men’s 4x100m Relay Quarterfinals (3 Heats)

                  12 Advance to Eugene: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 3 Best Times

5:40 p.m. – Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Quarterfinals (3 Heats)

                  12 Advance to Eugene: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 3 Best Times

6:00 p.m. – Men’s Triple Jump First Round (4 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

6:15 p.m. – Men’s 110m Hurdles Quarterfinals

6:50 p.m. – Men’s 400m Quarterfinals

7:25 p.m. – Men’s 400m Hurdles Quarterfinals

7:50 p.m. – Men’s 200m Quarterfinals

8:45 p.m. – Men’s 4x400m Relay Quarterfinals (3 Heats)

                  12 Advance to Eugene: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 3 Best Times

Saturday, May 30

5:00 p.m. – Women’s 4x100m Relay Quarterfinals (3 Heats)

                  12 Advance to Eugene: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 3 Best Times

5:15 p.m. – Women’s 1500m Quarterfinals

6:00 p.m. – Women’s Triple Jump First Round (4 Flights)

                  Top 12 Advance to Eugene

6:35 p.m. – Women’s 100m Quarterfinals

6:50 p.m. – Women’s 400m Quarterfinals

7:25 p.m. – Women’s 400m Hurdles Quarterfinals

7:50 p.m. – Women’s 200m Quarterfinals

8:20 p.m. – Women’s 5000m Semifinals (2 Heats)

                  12 Advance to Eugene: Top 5 Each Heat Plus Next 2 Best Times

8:45 p.m. – Men’s 4x400m Relay Quarterfinals (3 Heats)

                  12 Advance to Eugene: Top 3 Each Heat Plus Next 3 Best Times

STREAMING SCHEDULE

• Wednesday, May 27 (ESPN+) – 6:00 p.m. CT | LINK
• Thursday, May 28 (ESPN+) – 6:00 p.m. CT | LINK  
• Friday, May 29 (ESPN+) – 5:00 p.m. CT | LINK
• Saturday, May 30 (ESPN+) – 5:00 p.m. CT | LINK