Michigan
Meyo Invitational
Select Wolverines to Compete at Notre Dame Meyo Invitational
2/3/2022 1:09:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
THIS WEEK
Saturday, Feb. 5 -- at Notre Dame Meyo Invitational (South Bend, Ind.), 10:15 a.m. ET
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- Select few members of the University of Michigan men's track and field team will compete this Saturday (Feb. 5) at the Notre Dame Meyo Invitational.
The distance trio of Anthony DeKraker (mile), Michael Hancock (3,000 meters) and Joe Meyers (mile) will be the lone Wolverines traveling to South Bend, Ind., this weekend as the rest of the team gathers itself for the de facto regular-season finale in Chicago next Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11-12.
Hancock will compete at 10:15 a.m. ET in the unseeded section of the 3,000, with DeKraker and Meyers to follow in the unseeded mile sections that begin at 11 a.m. ET.
Live results will be available via Endurance Race Timing. Updates also will be posted throughout the weekend on the official @umichtrack social media channels.
Team Outlook & Notes
• Now under the guidance of Kevin Sullivan in his first year as the director of track and field/cross country for the University of Michigan, the Wolverine men are coming off of a seventh-place finish at the 2021 edition of the Big Ten Indoor Championships. The Wolverines do not return any conference champions, but do have a returning indoor medalist in Nick Foster as well as multiple All-Americans. In total, Michigan returns student-athletes who combined to score 36 of its 52 points.
• Returning All-Americans: Tom Brady (indoor 3,000 meters), Tom Dodd (indoor mile); Christian Hubaker (outdoor steeplechase); Devin Meyrer (cross country, indoor 5,000 meters)
• Returning Individual Big Ten Indoor Championships scorers: Tom Brady (5,000 meters), Tom Dodd (mile), Nick Foster (mile, 3,000 meters), Devin Meyrer (5,000 meters), Mason Mahacek (heptathlon x2), Joshua Zeller (60-meter hurdles x2), Cassidy Henshaw (high jump), Job Mayhue (2019 60-meter hurdles), Will Landowne (2019 3,000 meters)
• Current school record-holders: Devin Meyrer (indoor 5,000 meters), Miles Brown (indoor 600 meters)
• Delivering on the promise of being the only teenager indoors in the history of the world to run sub-21.30 (21.29) at 200 meters and sub-1:17.50 (1:17.41) at 600 meters, Dubem Amene dropped a 46.46 performance over 400 meters at Kentucky last weekend to move to No. 2 in school history -- just .04 seconds off the school record from Taylor McLaughlin in 2016 -- and No. 9 in the NCAA.
• Amene's stellar 600-meter run came one week after teammate Miles Brown broke the school record with a 1:16.98 run of his own, followed by teammate Cole Johnson in 1:17.98. Johnson showed similar strength at the 800-meter distance last week at Indiana with a 1:49.97 performance that moved him to No. 6 in school history.
• Joshua Zeller continues to rank among the Big Ten's and NCAA's fastest 60-meter hurdlers, coming off a runner-up finish in a strong field at Kentucky. With a best of 7.76 seconds that ranks him No. 2 in the conference and No. 11 nationally, he has yet to run slower than 7.90 this season. At No. 2 in school history, he stands behind only two-time Olympian and 2007 NCAA champion Jeff Porter at 7.64.
• The Michigan men's distance squad ran well in its biggest outing yet at Indiana last weekend, headlined by a nearly three-second career-best 7:55.49 over 3,000 meters from Tom Brady that ranks No. 4 in the conference, No. 32 nationally and No. 8 in school history. Oli Raimond also dipped below eight minutes for the first time in his career at 7:59.43, and both Nick Foster and Austin Remick set new personal records in the mile at 4:01.60 and 4:04.55, respectively.
• Mahacek set a big new personal best in the heptathlon at Kentucky to re-establish himself as a perennial scoring threat at the Big Ten Championships, posting a two-day, seven-event score of 5,531 points that ranks fifth in the conference this year and 19th nationally. Along the way, he set new career bests in the 60-meter hurdles (8.70 seconds), indoor long jump (6.76m / 22 feet, 2.25 inches) and pole vault (4.90m / 16-0.75). The performance moved him to No. 4 in school history.
Up Next
Fri-Sat., Feb. 11-12 -- at Windy City Invitational (Chicago, Ill.), TBA
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