Michigan
UCF Black & Gold Invitational
Three Wolverines Post Top Marks at Black and Gold Invitational
3/20/2026 9:24:00 PM | Women's Track & Field
Site: Orlando, Fla. (UCF Soccer and Track Complex)
Event: UCF Black & Gold Invitational (Day 1 of 2)
U-M Team Finish: No Team Scoring
Next U-M Event: Saturday, March 21 -- at UCF Black & Gold Invitational - Day Two (Orlando, Fla.), 11:20 a.m.
ORLANDO, Fla. -- The University of Michigan women's track and field team opened its outdoor slate on Friday (March 20) with a trio of Wolverines setting top-10 program marks at the UCF Black and Gold Invitational at the UCF Soccer and Track Complex.
A pair of Wolverines placed in the top five of the 200-meter dash, with Keyanna O'Tey finishing fourth (23.25 seconds) and Payton Smith finishing fifth (23.43). O'Tey's time is No. 3 on the program performers list, and Smith's time is No. 7.
Trinity Franklin finished third in the shot put with a personal-best 15.84 meters (51 feet, 11.75 inches) to finish third and enter the program performers list at No. 8. Elizabeth Tapper finished first (17.22m/56-6), coming just 0.43 meters short of her personal best.
In the 1,500-meter run invite section, a trio of Wolverines finished in the top 10. Samantha Hastie finished third (4:17.04), Penelopea Gordon finished sixth (4:18.01) and Mara Longenecker finished 10th (4:27.07).
Sidney Green ran 58.51 in the 400-meter hurdles to finish second, while Lauren Bickerdt (1:02.07) and Sydney Glee (1:03.36) finished ninth and 16th, respectively, in their outdoor debuts.
Kourtney Rathke made her outdoor long jump debut, finishing second with a mark of 6.14m (+3.5m/s). Had the mark been wind legal, it would have been No. 7 on the program performers list. Rathke also competed in the pole vault, clearing 3.87m (12-8.25) to finish fourth, while Iliana Downing cleared 3.97m (13-0.25) to finish third.
In the javelin throw, Chiamaka Odenigbo threw for 23.74m (77-10) to finish 18th. Abigail Russell finished ninth in the hammer throw with a mark of 53.01m (173-11).
The Wolverines will close out the weekend in Orlando, Fla., on Saturday (March 21), beginning with the 100-meter hurdles preliminaries at 11 a.m.
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