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AUSTIN – Tarleton's Garrett Thomas, Jared McNeil and Kandis Brooks have each qualified to compete in the 83rd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays that will take place Friday-Saturday, April 2-3, at Michael A. Myers Stadium in Austin.
“I can't think of a better group to represent Tarleton at the Texas Relays,” Tarleton head track & field coach Pat Ponder said. “All three athletes were All-Americans for us last year and I believe they will each represent Tarleton in a very positive way next weekend.”
Thomas will be one of four athletes in the college division set to compete in the men's 110m hurdles preliminaries that is scheduled to begin at 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Thomas set a NCAA Division II provisional time of 14.33 in the 110m hurdles at the Tarleton Invitational on March 11.
This will make Thomas' fourth trip to the Texas Relays. He finished seventh at last year's meet finishing the finals in 14.42. He also finished seventh overall in 2008 with a time of 14.85. As a freshman in 2007, Thomas ran a 14.68 in the preliminaries but did not qualify for the finals.
Brooks qualified as one of 70 athletes in the women's 100m hurdles event under the college and university divisions. She is also set to compete in preliminaries at 9:30 a.m. on Friday. Brooks recorded her provisional time in the 100m hurdles at the Tarleton Invitational as well, running in a time of 14:37.
Brooks will be making her second appearance and first since her freshman season back in 2007. She qualified for the 100m hurdles and was on the women's 4x100 relay team as well. She ran a 14.84 in the hurdles event and contributed in the relay team's finishing time of 47.80.
Both the men's 110m hurdle and women's 100m hurdle finals are scheduled for 2:50 on Saturday.
McNeil has been invited to compete in the Jerry Thompson Invitational Mile at the Relays. He is one of 15 athletes who will compete in the event that is by invitation only. The mile run is scheduled to begin at 4:30 on Saturday.
McNeil is making his second trip to the annual meet as well. He qualified in the men's 800m run in 2008 and finished 17th with a time of 1:54.74.
