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Mount Sac Relays
Alabama Track & Field to Compete at Mount SAC and UCLA this Weekend
4/12/2017 1:45:00 PM | Track & Field, Cross Country
Meets at Long Beach State and Azusa Pacific also on tap for west coast visit
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – The Alabama men's and women's track & field teams will travel to Southern California to participate in four meets around the Los Angeles area from April 13-15.
The teams will split their squads between the Mount Sac Relays at El Camino College and the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate at Long Beach State on Thursday, April 13 and Mount Sac and the Bryan Clay Invitational at Azusa Pacific University on Friday, April 14. Alabama will wrap up the weekend at the Jim Bush Collegiate Invitational at UCLA on Saturday, April 15. Teams competing at UCLA include the host Bruins, Texas A&M, UTEP and Arizona State.
Alabama Men No. 4, Women No. 18 in Latest USTFCCCA Outdoor Rankings
The Alabama men's track and field team remained at No. 4, while the women are ranked No. 18 in the U.S. Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Team Rankings, released April 10. The men's team posted 221.40 points while the women's team earned 98.85 points. Regionally, the men are ranked No. 1 in the South region, while the women are No. 2.
Alabama Dominates Throws at Crimson Tide Invitational
Sophomore Kord Ferguson swept the men's shot put and discus titles and Daniel Haugh and Danielle McConnell won the hammer throw as Alabama dominated the throwing events at the Crimson Tide Invitational April 7-8 at the Sam Bailey Track & Field Complex in Tuscaloosa.
Ferguson won the discus with a season-best mark of 194-9 (59.36m) and took the shot put crown with a season-best effort of 60-10 (18.54m) on his final throw of the competition. Haugh ended the hammer throw with a personal-best effort of 220-10 (67.33m) on his final throw of the evening to win the event. McConnell won the women's hammer throw with an effort of 195-4 (59.54m) on her first throw of the competition.
Junior Haley Teel finished fourth in the women's shot put but posted a pair of marks that rank among the top-10 in school history. Her fourth-place effort of 53-7 (16.33m) is the third-best in school history. She also had a mark of 53-1 (16.18m) that ranks No. 8 all-time at Alabama.
Head Coach Dan Waters' Outlook
"We've never had a weekend like the one we will experience in Los Angeles," head coach Dan Waters said. "We are participating in several highly-competitive meets over our three days in Southern California. Mount SAC is one of the great meets in the country every season and will be good test for us. Our discus throwers will tested at the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate and we have a couple of 1,500 runners participating in a deep field at Azusa Pacific. Then we'll cap it all off competing against top-25 competition at UCLA."
Next Up: War Eagle Invitational
The Crimson Tide will travel downstate to participate in the War Eagle Invitational April 21-22 at Auburn University.
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