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Duke Invitational
Duke Invite Up Next for Full Michigan Squad
4/5/2022 3:46:00 PM | Men's Track & Field
THIS WEEK
Thurs-Sat., April 7-9 -- at Duke Invitational (Durham, N.C. / Morris Williams Stadium)
TV: ACC Network Extra (Times TBA) | Live Results
Thursday, April 7 -- 1:30 p.m. | ACC Network Extra (Times TBA)
Friday, April 8 -- 9:30 a.m. | ACC Network Extra (Times TBA)
Saturday, April 9 -- 10 a.m. | ACC Network Extra (Times TBA)
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In what will be a first for the University of Michigan men's track and field team so far this 2022 outdoor season, all four event groups will be competing at the same meet as the Wolverines head to the Duke Invitational this Thursday through Saturday (April 7-9).
With just five remaining weekends of competition before the Big Ten Championships, Wolverines from the sprints, distance, jumps and throws groups will take on a strong field at Morris Williams Stadium that includes Big Ten foe Penn State and an ACC contingent that includes host Duke, North Carolina, NC State, Pitt, Virginia and Wake Forest, among other non-Power-Five programs.
Thursday will be a multi-events day for the Wolverines with only the women's heptathlon and men's decathlon competitions, beginning at 12:30 p.m. and 1:30 p.m., respectively. Weather is expected to be mild with 70-degree temperatures and overcast with the possibility of storms early in the day, before cooler high temperatures in the low-to-mid 60s move in for the remainder of the meet.
In addition to the conclusion of those two-day multi-events, Friday will also feature field event competition beginning at 10 a.m. and extending through 8 p.m. The end of the field event session coincides with a brief distance-oriented track program that begins at 6 p.m. Michigan's competitors are expected to conclude competition by 7:30 p.m.
Saturday features the remaining field event competitions starting at 10 a.m. through likely 4 p.m., as well as a track session for the balance of the events on the oval that kicks off at 11 a.m. The meet is tentatively scheduled to conclude prior to 6 p.m.
Michigan brings significant All-American firepower to the competition, headlined by recent school record-breaker and Big Ten Track Athlete of the Week Joshua Zeller (110m hurdles). Joining him are 2022 indoor All-Americans Dubem Amene (400 meters), Miles Brown (400 meters), Tom Dodd (1,500 meters) and Nick Foster (1,500 meters), as well as 2021 outdoor All-American Christian Hubaker and nationals qualifier Joost Plaetinck (steeplechase).
Zeller will be running for the first time since clocking 13.42 (+1.6m/s) in the 110-meter hurdles two weekends ago to break the wind-legal school record by 0.15 of a second. The time still stands as the fastest wind-legal time in the world this year.
Johnson is scheduled to compete for the first time since earning first-team All-America honors indoors last month, and Dodd will compete on the track individually for the Wolverines for the first time since since the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships. He was a member of the first-team All-America distance medley relay squad indoors, in the place of Johnson, and on Friday will join DMR teammate Foster in the 1,500 meters.
Amene will make his 2022 outdoor debut at 400 meters after earning second-team All-America honors in the event indoors. Representing Nigeria internationally, he is currently just inside the bubble of qualifying for the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Ore., this summer, and will look to begin to bolster that position with additional fast times. He will be joined for one lap around the track by Brown after he earned a pair of All-America honors indoors.
Plaetinck is in pursuit of a solid early season steeplechase time after Hubaker, who will compete at 1,500 meters on Friday, ran an 8:48.64 in the event two weekends ago. Both are endeavoring to return to nationals for the second-straight year.
Headlining the action in the field is decathlete Mason Mahacek, who will compete in the 10-event gauntlet for the first time since scoring at the Big Ten Championships last spring. Cassidy Henshaw will look to break seven feet in the high jump to match that accomplishment of his indoors, and Eli Winter is aiming to climb from No. 5 in program history in the hammer and crack the top-10 in the discus.
Live results will be provided through Flash Results. Updates will be posted to the official Michigan track and field social media channels throughout the weekend.
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