Oklahoma State DMR Teams Break Records While OSU and KU Lead after Day One of Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship

LUBBOCK, Texas – Two data had been damaged and 11 champions had been topped after six occasions had been accomplished on Friday on the 2023 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship on the Sports Performance Center on the campus of Texas Tech. The Oklahoma State girls and the Kansas males prime the standings after the opening day.
 
The Cowgirls lead with 68 factors whereas Oklahoma (47.5), Kansas State (34), Iowa State (30) and Kansas (12.5) spherical out the highest 5 on the ladies’s facet. The Jayhawks compiled 41 factors within the males’s competitors adopted by Texas (39), Oklahoma State (29), Texas Tech (28) and Iowa State (24).
 
Oklahoma sophomore Pippi Lotta Enok turned the second Sooner to assert first place within the girls’s pentathlon, scoring 4,207 factors. She took first place within the lengthy bounce (6.10m), second within the excessive bounce (1.71m), third within the 60m run (8.62m) and seventh within the shot put (11.61) however it was her second-place victory within the 800m run (2:19.26) that solidified the win for her.
 
The Sooners’ Abby Moore collected her first Big 12 title as she threw 20.88m within the weight throw. Iowa State’s Cam Jones took the boys’s competitors with a throw of 23.27 meters.
 
Oklahoma State swept the 5,000m run with the reigning 3,000m 2022 Big 12 champions Taylor Roe (16:08.37) and Alex Maier (14:11.72) incomes the wins.
 
OSU junior Ariadni Adamopoulou claimed the pole vault title as she cleared 4.19 meters whereas Texas Tech’s Zach Bradford gained his second consecutive pole vault title clearing 5.63 meters.
 
Iowa State sophomore Sydney Willits turned the Cyclones’ first lengthy bounce Big 12 title winner since 2018 as she leapt a career-high 6.33 meters. Nikaoli Williams turned the second straight Sooner to win the lengthy bounce with a mark of 7.73 meters on Friday.
 
Coming off its nation’s main Distance Medley Relay efficiency final week, the Cowboys broke each the Big 12 meet and the Texas Tech facility file by operating a 9:31.52 within the occasion. OSU broke its file set in 2015 by over 5 seconds for this system’s third consecutive DMR Big 12 title. The Cowgirls claimed their second-straight DMR title with a time of 11:12.21 and additionally set a facility file.
 
Championship Saturday begins at 11 a.m. CT with the boys’s heptathlon. Field occasions start at
1 p.m. CT with the ladies’s shot put whereas the ladies’s 60m hurdles kick off the operating occasions at 2 p.m. CT.  Live protection will proceed on Big 12 Now on ESPN+ and dwell outcomes shall be accessible by means of PrimeTime Timing.
 
Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Champions – Day One
 
Women:
Pentathlon: Pippi Lotta Enok, Oklahoma – 4207 factors
Weight Throw: Abby Moore, Oklahoma – 20.88m
5,000 Meters: Taylor Roe, Oklahoma State – 16:08.37
Pole Vault: Ariadni Adamopoulou, Oklahoma State – 4.19m
Long Jump: Sydney Willits, Iowa State – 6.33m
Distance Medley Relay: Oklahoma State – 11:12.21
 
Men:
Weight Throw: Cam Jones, Iowa State – 23.27m
5,000 M: Alex Maier, Oklahoma State – 14:11.72
Pole Vault: Zach Bradford, Texas Tech – 5.63m
Long Jump: Nikaoli Williams, Oklahoma – 7.73m
Distance Medley Relay: Oklahoma State – 9:31.52
 
Standings After Day One:
 
Women:

Men:

(*12*)41

(*12*)39

(*12*)29

(*12*)28

(*12*)24

(*12*)10

(*12*)9

(*12*)8

(*12*)7