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Akron Closes April with Pair of Weekend Meets
April 27 | Track & Field
WALSH TUNE-UP INVITATIONAL: MEET INFORMATION (PDF) | LIVE RESULTS
ASHLAND ALUMNI OPEN: MEET INFORMATION (PDF) | LIVE RESULTS
AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron men's and women's track and field team is set to close out the month of April competing in a pair of weekend meets.
UP NEXT: The University of Akron men's and women's track and field teams will compete at Walsh University Tune-Up Invitational on Thursday (April 27) before heading down I-71 to participate at the Ashland Alumni Open on Friday and Saturday (April 28-29).
The Walsh Tune-Up Invitational commenced with the men's and women's javelin on Wednesday (April 26). The women's long jump opens action on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. before the meet concludes with the men's 4x400 relay at 5:50 p.m.
Live stats of the Walsh Tune-Up Invitational will be available at GoZips.com.
The two-day Ashland Alumni Open will kick off on Friday with the men's hammer at 10 a.m. before the men's and women's triple jump concludes opening-day action at 3 p.m. The meet wraps up on Saturday starting with the women's long jump at 10 a.m. and ending with the women's 4x400 relay.
Live stats of the Ashland Alumni Open will be available at GoZips.com.
AKRON DUO EARNS MAC ATHLETE OF THE WEEK ACCOLADES: Akron redshirt sophomores Jimmy Harkelroad (Huron, Ohio) and Hunter Garretson (Newcomerstown, Ohio) were honored by the Mid-American Conference as its Men's Track and Field Athletes of the Week, the league announced on Wednesday, April 26.
Harkelroad collected accolades as the MAC Men's Track Athlete of the Week, while Garretson pulled in Field Athlete of the Week laurels.
Harkelroad posted a league-leading time of 51.29 en route to garnering a second-place finish in the men's 400-meter hurdles at the Jesse Owens Classic on April 21. He effort stands as a season-best time and ranks No. 37 in the NCAA this year and as the No. 22 performance in the NCAA East Regional.
Garretson continued his strong run of performances winning the pole vault at the Jesse Owens Classic with a meet- and facility-record clearance of 18-3.25 (5.57m) on April 22. He owns a conference-leading mark of 18-8.75 (5.71m) set at the Texas Relays, while maintaining the overall No. 4 performance in the NCAA this season and No. 2 mark in the NCAA East Region.
NATIONAL RANKINGS: The University of Akron track and field teams has garnered recognition for their efforts during the 2023 outdoor season as the Zips are rated in the Event Squad rankings released on April 24, 2023, as part of the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field National Rating Index.
Akron ranks seventh nationally in the men's hammer and 19th in the men's pole vault.
ZIPS RANK AMONG NATION'S BEST IN 2023 TFRRS RANKINGS: Akron has four student-athletes ranked in the top-50 nationally by the Track and Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS) during the 2023 outdoor campaign, including, Hunter Garretson, who is fourth in the nation in the men's pole vault (18-8.75/5.71m).
Also rated among the top-50 is Jimmy Harkelroad (37th in men's 400-meter hurdles – 51.29), freshman Brian Masai (Kitale, Kenya) (38th in men's 5,000 meters – 13:39.65), sophomore Oscar Prieto (Barcelona, Spain) (42nd in the men's pole vault – 17-3.50/5.27m) and redshirt sophomore William Gross (Newfane, N.Y.) (44th in the men's hammer – 213-8/65.13m) and
GARRETSON NAMED ELITE 90 WINNER: Hunter Garretson was the recipient of the Elite 90 award for the 2023 NCAA Division Men's Track and Field Indoor Championship.
Garretson, majoring in mathematics, boasts a perfect 4.0 GPA was presented with the award during the presentation on March 11. He became the second Zip to earn the distinguished honor joining Tyler Sanda, who won the award as a member of the Akron men's soccer team in 2015.
GARRETSON GARNERS ALL-AMERICA ACCOLADES: Hunter Garretson garnered Second-Team All-America accolades on the strength of a 12th-place showing (18-1/5.51m) at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by the University of New Mexico on March 10.
CRACKING THE ALL-TIME TOP-FIVE PERFORMANCES: The Zips have posted a pair of school records from Brian Masai in the men's 5,000 and 10,000 meters as part of four overall top-five performances in program history to the record book during the 2023 outdoor campaign.
Indoor
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ASHLAND ALUMNI OPEN: MEET INFORMATION (PDF) | LIVE RESULTS
AKRON, Ohio – The University of Akron men's and women's track and field team is set to close out the month of April competing in a pair of weekend meets.
UP NEXT: The University of Akron men's and women's track and field teams will compete at Walsh University Tune-Up Invitational on Thursday (April 27) before heading down I-71 to participate at the Ashland Alumni Open on Friday and Saturday (April 28-29).
The Walsh Tune-Up Invitational commenced with the men's and women's javelin on Wednesday (April 26). The women's long jump opens action on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. before the meet concludes with the men's 4x400 relay at 5:50 p.m.
Live stats of the Walsh Tune-Up Invitational will be available at GoZips.com.
The two-day Ashland Alumni Open will kick off on Friday with the men's hammer at 10 a.m. before the men's and women's triple jump concludes opening-day action at 3 p.m. The meet wraps up on Saturday starting with the women's long jump at 10 a.m. and ending with the women's 4x400 relay.
Live stats of the Ashland Alumni Open will be available at GoZips.com.
AKRON DUO EARNS MAC ATHLETE OF THE WEEK ACCOLADES: Akron redshirt sophomores Jimmy Harkelroad (Huron, Ohio) and Hunter Garretson (Newcomerstown, Ohio) were honored by the Mid-American Conference as its Men's Track and Field Athletes of the Week, the league announced on Wednesday, April 26.
Harkelroad collected accolades as the MAC Men's Track Athlete of the Week, while Garretson pulled in Field Athlete of the Week laurels.
Harkelroad posted a league-leading time of 51.29 en route to garnering a second-place finish in the men's 400-meter hurdles at the Jesse Owens Classic on April 21. He effort stands as a season-best time and ranks No. 37 in the NCAA this year and as the No. 22 performance in the NCAA East Regional.
Garretson continued his strong run of performances winning the pole vault at the Jesse Owens Classic with a meet- and facility-record clearance of 18-3.25 (5.57m) on April 22. He owns a conference-leading mark of 18-8.75 (5.71m) set at the Texas Relays, while maintaining the overall No. 4 performance in the NCAA this season and No. 2 mark in the NCAA East Region.
NATIONAL RANKINGS: The University of Akron track and field teams has garnered recognition for their efforts during the 2023 outdoor season as the Zips are rated in the Event Squad rankings released on April 24, 2023, as part of the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field National Rating Index.
Akron ranks seventh nationally in the men's hammer and 19th in the men's pole vault.
ZIPS RANK AMONG NATION'S BEST IN 2023 TFRRS RANKINGS: Akron has four student-athletes ranked in the top-50 nationally by the Track and Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS) during the 2023 outdoor campaign, including, Hunter Garretson, who is fourth in the nation in the men's pole vault (18-8.75/5.71m).
Also rated among the top-50 is Jimmy Harkelroad (37th in men's 400-meter hurdles – 51.29), freshman Brian Masai (Kitale, Kenya) (38th in men's 5,000 meters – 13:39.65), sophomore Oscar Prieto (Barcelona, Spain) (42nd in the men's pole vault – 17-3.50/5.27m) and redshirt sophomore William Gross (Newfane, N.Y.) (44th in the men's hammer – 213-8/65.13m) and
GARRETSON NAMED ELITE 90 WINNER: Hunter Garretson was the recipient of the Elite 90 award for the 2023 NCAA Division Men's Track and Field Indoor Championship.
Garretson, majoring in mathematics, boasts a perfect 4.0 GPA was presented with the award during the presentation on March 11. He became the second Zip to earn the distinguished honor joining Tyler Sanda, who won the award as a member of the Akron men's soccer team in 2015.
GARRETSON GARNERS ALL-AMERICA ACCOLADES: Hunter Garretson garnered Second-Team All-America accolades on the strength of a 12th-place showing (18-1/5.51m) at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships hosted by the University of New Mexico on March 10.
CRACKING THE ALL-TIME TOP-FIVE PERFORMANCES: The Zips have posted a pair of school records from Brian Masai in the men's 5,000 and 10,000 meters as part of four overall top-five performances in program history to the record book during the 2023 outdoor campaign.
| NAME | EVENT/DATE | RANK – MARK |
| Brian Masai | Men's 10,000M – March 24 | No. 1 – 28:45.78 |
| Hunter Garretson | Men's Pole Vault – April 1 | No. 2 – 18-8.75 (5.71m) |
| Milton Wilson | Men's Hammer – April 7 | No. 4 – 205-3 (62.56m) |
| Brian Masai | Men's 5,000M – April 15 | No. 1 – 13:39.65 |
Indoor
| NAME | EVENT/DATE | RANK – MARK |
| Brian Masai | Men's 3,000M – Jan. 20 | No. 3 – 8:10.74 |
| Brian Masai | Men's Mile – Jan. 27 | No. 2 – 4:03.21 |
| Hunter Garretson | Men's Pole Vault – Jan. 27 | No. 4 – 17-10.50 (5.45m) |
| Vanessa Horn | Women's 400M – Jan. 28 | No. 5 – 55.24 |
| Oliver Huffman, Silas Bush, Zayd Elkurd, Brian Masai | Men's DMR – Jan. 28 | No. 5 – 9:55.98 |
| Brian Masai | Men's 5,000M – Feb. 11 | No. 1 – 13:46.76 |
| Hunter Garretson | Men's Pole Vault – Feb. 17 | No. 3 – 18.2.50 (5.55m) |
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