Michigan
Power Five Invitational
U-M to Welcome Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 Schools for Power Five Invite
1/31/2019 8:16:00 AM | Men's Track & Field
» Michigan will hosts its third and final home meet with the two-day Power Five Invitational on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 1-2), welcoming top teams from the Big Ten, ACC and Big 12.
» Friday's action will include finals in the 5,000 meters, distance medley relay and 600 meters, as well as prelims in the short sprints, unseeded races in most other events, and day one of the two-day heptathlon.
» The meet will wrap up Saturday with finals for most track events and seeded sections of the field events, as well as the conclusion of the heptathlon.
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THIS WEEK
Friday-Saturday, Feb. 1-2 -- Power Five Invitational (U-M Indoor Track Building), Noon / 9:30 a.m.
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan men's track and field team will welcome some of the nation's best programs for the Power Five Invitational on Friday and Saturday (Feb. 1-2) in the third and final regular season home meet in Ann Arbor before Michigan hosts the Big Ten Conference Indoor Championships in February.
The two-day competition will pit the Wolverines against the likes of Big Ten rivals Indiana, Michigan State, Minnesota and Wisconsin; ACC foes Georgia Tech, Louisville and Pittsburgh; and Kansas from the Big 12.
Action at the state-of-the-art U-M Indoor Track Building will get underway Friday at noon with the heptathlon, followed by an evening track program at 4 p.m. Friday's track schedule includes prelims for the 60 meters and 60-meter hurdles; finals in the 5,000 meters, distance medley relay and 600 meters; and unseeded sections of various other events.
Competition will resume Saturday morning at 9:30 with the beginning of day two for the heptathlon. Field events will begin at 11 a.m., and the top-seeded sections of the remaining eight track events will start at noon.
Fans who are unable to make it to the meet can watch the meet from start to finish on the subscription streaming services offered by FloTrack Pro and Big Ten Network Plus.
Most of the Wolverines' top competitors are scheduled to be in action over the course of the two days, including the vaunted Michigan throws corps. School-record-holding All-Americans Joe Ellis (weight throw) and Andrew Liskowitz (shot put) are joined by John Meyer, the nation's top freshman and the Michigan freshman record-holder in the shot put.
Michigan's distance corps will be headlined by Ben Hill and Cole Johnson in the 800 meters. Hill just missed the sub-four-minute mile threshold this past weekend, while Johnson returns to the U-M Indoor Track Building after winning a dramatic, come-from-behind victory over this distance at the Simmons-Harvey Big Ten Invitational two weekends ago.
Jumpers Brandon Piwinski and Daniel Butael will also be back in action after strong showings at the last home meet. Piwinski will look to continue to raise the bar in the high jump after clearing seven feet indoors for the first time in his career, while Butael will aim to fly farther in the triple jump. Both men are ranked top-40 nationally. The weekend will also be the heptathlon debut for Jack Lint in a Michigan uniform. He was previously an ACC champion and school record-holder at Virginia.
Michigan's hurdle crew of Roland Amarteifio, Sierra Hendrix-Williams, Noah Caudy and Job Mayhue will look to make a statement against the top-tier competition, while true freshman sprinter Asani Hampton aims to build on a 60-meter debut two weekends ago that was tied for the fastest in Michigan history.
Wolverine Bites
• Michigan's hurdle crew might be young -- no one older than a junior -- but it is one of the nation's best in the early goings of this 2019 season. Led by junior Roland Amarteifio at 8.03 and sophomore Sierra Hendrix-Williams at 8.06, the Wolverines' corps has four men who have run 8.15 or faster. They are joined by sophomore Noah Caudy (8.14) and true freshman Job Mayhue (8.15) to give Michigan a bright present and an even brighter future in the event.
• The 2018 recruiting class is making its debut this 2019 season and showing why it was one of the more acclaimed classes in the nation. Shot putter John Meyer is the top-ranked freshman in the country in his signature event, Cole Johnson and Derrick Simmons are No. 12 and No. 14 at 800 meters among freshmen, and Cassidy Henshaw is No. 11 in the high jump. Last Saturday, Meyer set the Michigan freshman record in the shot put at 18.74m (61-5.75) and sprinter Asani Hampton ran 6.81 to tie the Michigan record for the fastest debut for a freshman at 60 meters.
• Michigan has built a reputation of being one of the best throws schools in the country and is upholding it in 2019. The Wolverines are one of three teams in the country with men ranked top-10 nationally in both the shot put and weight throw. Joe Ellis is ranked No. 3 in the weight throw, with Andrew Liskowitz checking in at No. 8 in the shot put. Liskowitz is joined in the top 20 nationally by the freshman Meyer at No. 27.
• Led by seven-foot high jumper Brandon Piwinski and the freshman Henshaw, Michigan is one of just 14 schools with multiple men over 2.10m (6-10.75). In the Big Ten, only Nebraska matches or surpasses Michigan's total with three men over that height; Piwinski beat all of them head-to-head two weeks ago.
• Michigan's distance corps showed up in a big way at Boston this past weekend. Jack Aho became just the 17th man to crack the eight-minute barrier at 3,000 meters to move to No. 15 nationally at 7:57.54, while both Chase Barnett and Ben Hill approached the sub-four-minute mile. Barnett clocked 4:00.86 for 14th in the nation, while Hill went 4:01.76 for No. 18.
• The Wolverines, led by head coaches Jerry Clayton and James Henry, are ranked No. 39 nationally in the second regular-season edition of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Track and Field Rating Index (TFRI).
When to Watch the Wolverines
| Friday (Feb. 1) | Event | Round | Time (ET) |
| Cassidy Henshaw | Heptathlon | Final | 12:00 PM |
| Jack Lint | Heptathlon | Final | 12:00 PM |
| Roland Amarteifio | 60 meter hurdles | Prelims | 4:10 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 60 meter hurdles | Prelims | 4:10 PM |
| Sierra Hendrix-Williams | 60 meter hurdles | Prelims | 4:10 PM |
| Sean Marshall | 60 meter hurdles | Prelims | 4:10 PM |
| Job Mayhue | 60 meter hurdles | Prelims | 4:10 PM |
| Josiah Carpenter | 60 meter dash | Final | 4:30 PM |
| Stephen Hagen | 60 meter dash | Prelims | 4:30 PM |
| Asani Hampton | 60 meter dash | Prelims | 4:30 PM |
| Joe McCarthy | 60 meter dash | Prelims | 4:30 PM |
| Desmond Nicholas | 60 meter dash | Prelims | 4:30 PM |
| Devin Meyrer | 5000 meter run | Final | 5:10 PM |
| Joost Plaetinck | 5000 meter run | Final | 5:10 PM |
| Alex Schwedt | 600 meter run | Final | 6:20 PM |
| Noah Caudy | 400 meter dash | Final | 6:42 PM |
| Sean Marshall | 400 meter dash | Final | 6:42 PM |
| Saturday (Feb. 2) | Event | Meet | Time (ET) |
| Joe Ellis | Weight Throw | Final | 11:00 AM |
| Andrew Liskowitz | Weight Throw | Final | 11:00 AM |
| John Meyer | Weight Throw | Final | 11:00 AM |
| Manning Plater | Weight Throw | Final | 11:00 AM |
| Nick Burkhalter | Pole Vault | Final | 12:30 PM |
| Dominic Dimambro | Mile | Final | 12:35 PM |
| Anthony Giannobile | Mile | Final | 12:35 PM |
| Jared Hill | Mile | Final | 12:35 PM |
| Andrew Lorant | Mile | Final | 12:35 PM |
| Evan Meyer | Mile | Final | 12:35 PM |
| Alex Klemm | High Jump | Final | 12:45 PM |
| Brandon Piwinski | High Jump | Final | 12:45 PM |
| Max Wagner | High Jump | Final | 12:45 PM |
| Daniel Butael | Triple Jump | Final | 12:45 PM |
| Roland Amarteifio | 400 meter dash | Final | 1:15 PM |
| Ian Davis | 400 meter dash | Final | 1:15 PM |
| Desmond Melson | 400 meter dash | Final | 1:15 PM |
| Blake Washington | 400 meter dash | Final | 1:15 PM |
| Andrew Liskowitz | Shot Put | Final | 1:15 PM |
| John Meyer | Shot Put | Final | 1:15 PM |
| Ben Hill | 800 meter run | Final | 1:42 PM |
| Cole Johnson | 800 meter run | Final | 1:42 PM |
| Matt Plowman | 800 meter run | Final | 1:42 PM |
| Austin Remick | 800 meter run | Final | 1:42 PM |
| Derrick Simmons | 800 meter run | Final | 1:42 PM |
| Luke Wallace | 800 meter run | Final | 1:42 PM |
| Ryan Wilkie | 800 meter run | Final | 1:42 PM |
| Stephen Hagen | 200 meter dash | Final | 2:10 PM |
| Asani Hampton | 200 meter dash | Final | 2:10 PM |
| Joe McCarthy | 200 meter dash | Final | 2:10 PM |
| Blake Washington | 200 meter dash | Final | 2:10 PM |
| Jacob Branch | 3000 meter run | Final | 2:40 PM |
| Kevin Hall | 3000 meter run | Final | 2:40 PM |
| Isaac Harding | 3000 meter run | Final | 2:40 PM |
| Christian Hubaker | 3000 meter run | Final | 2:40 PM |
| Lewis Tate | 3000 meter run | Final | 2:40 PM |
| Marshall, Mayhue, Washington, Caudy | 4x400 relay | Final | 3:10 PM |
| Melson, Schwedt, Amarteifio, McLaughlin | 4x400 relay | Final | 3:10 PM |
| Simmons, B. Hill, Wallace, Wilkie | 4x400 relay | Final | 3:10 PM |
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