LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Long Beach State resumes outdoor competition this weekend with athletes competing across multiple Los Angeles-area meets, highlighted by throwing events at Loker Track Stadium (USC) and distance and track and field competition at Drake Stadium (UCLA).<\/p>\n
THIS WEEK
The Beach opens Friday, March 27, with throwers competing at the Ron and Sharlene Allice Trojan Invite. Throwing competition begins Friday at the Colich Throws Center with men’s and women’s discus followed by hammer throw, while additional throwing events continue Saturday at Loker Track Stadium with javelin and shot put against a field that includes Arizona State University, BYU, CSUN, USC, University of Utah and University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison.<\/p>\n
Distance runners will also compete Friday evening at the Bob Larsen Distance Carnival and Jim Bush Legends Invitational beginning at 6 p.m. at Drake Stadium, hosted by UCLA.<\/p>\n
Saturday shifts to the Jim Bush Legends Invitational at Drake Stadium, where the remainder of the Long Beach State roster will compete in track and field events against teams including Cal, University of Oregon, California State Santa Barbara,UCLA, UC San Diego, San Diego State, UNLV, Sacramento State, Pepperdine, and the Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n
THE STARTING LINE
Friday, March 27 \u2014 Ron and Sharlene Allice Trojan Invite
Colich Throws Center \u2022 Wilmington, Calif.
Field Events \u2022 11 a.m.<\/p>\n
11:00 a.m. \u2014 Men’s Discus Throw
12:00 p.m. \u2014 Women’s Discus Throw
1:15 p.m. \u2014 Men’s Hammer Throw
2:15 p.m. \u2014 Women’s Hammer Throw<\/p>\n
Friday, March 27 \u2014 UCLA Distance Carnival
Drake Stadium \u2022 Los Angeles, Calif.
Track Events \u2022 6 p.m.<\/p>\n
6:00 p.m. \u2014 Women’s 1,500 meters
6:35 p.m. \u2014 Men’s 1,500 meters
7:20 p.m. \u2014 Women’s Steeplechase
7:40 p.m. \u2014 Men’s Steeplechase
7:55 p.m. \u2014 Women’s 5,000 meters
8:35 p.m. \u2014 Men’s 5,000 meters
9:15 p.m. \u2014 Women’s 10,000 meters
10:00 p.m. \u2014 Men’s 10,000 meters<\/p>\n
Saturday, March 28 \u2014 Ron and Sharlene Allice Trojan Invite
Allyson Felix Field at Loker Track Stadium \u2022 Los Angeles, Calif.
Throwing Events \u2022 11 a.m.\u00a0 \u00a0
11:00 a.m. \u2014 Women’s Shot Put
12:00 p.m. \u2014 Women’s Javelin
2:00 p.m. \u2014 Men’s Javelin<\/p>\n
Saturday, March 28 \u2014 Jim Bush Legends Meet (UCLA)
Drake Stadium \u2022 Los Angeles, Calif.
Track and Field Events \u2022 11 a.m.
11:00 a.m. \u2014 Men’s 4×100-meter relay
11:10 a.m. \u2014 Women’s 4×100-meter relay
11:25 a.m. \u2014 Men’s 110-meter hurdles
11:45 a.m. \u2014 Women’s 100-meter hurdles
12 p.m. \u2014 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Sprint events begin
1:40 p.m. \u2014 Men’s 800m
2:00 P.m. \u2014 Women’s 800m
2:00 p.m. \u2014 Women’s Long Jump
2:30 p.m. \u2014 Men’s 400m hurdles
2:40 p.m. \u2014 Women’s 400m hurdles<\/p>\n
Afternoon distance events also include Long Beach State entries in the 1,500 meters and 4×400-meter relays, with the Beach distance group led by\u00a0Miles Jones<\/a>,\u00a0Lance Denhalter<\/a>,\u00a0Cameron Rhone<\/a>,\u00a0Sharice Laygo<\/a>,\u00a0Darcy Ray<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Alyssa Tapanes<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the field events, senior\u00a0Ryan Gregory<\/a>\u00a0and freshman\u00a0Steven Evans-Glynn<\/a>\u00a0are scheduled for the men’s long jump. For the women’s long\u00a0Daneira Pellum<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Jenna Morales<\/a>,\u00a0KiiKii Brown<\/a>, and\u00a0Amelia Gray<\/a>\u00a0are expected to compete. Graduate\u00a0VJ Vanderlipe<\/a>\u00a0is competing in the men’s pole vault along with\u00a0Cytres Vives<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Long Beach State resumes outdoor competition this weekend with athletes competing across multiple Los…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-240618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}