{"id":275083,"date":"2026-04-19T03:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275083\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T03:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T03:48:08","slug":"onwunili-headlines-strong-day-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/275083\/","title":{"rendered":"Onwunili Headlines Strong Day in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 The Wisconsin men&#8217;s track and field team turned in a strong showing on Saturday at the Beach Invitational, highlighted by a sprint victory and a top-five finish on the track.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Onwunili led the way for the Badgers, winning the 200 meters in 20.46 seconds. His time stands as the No. 1 wind-aided mark in Wisconsin history.<\/p>\n<p>In the 400 meters, <a href=\"https:\/\/uwbadgers.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/zion-omotesa\/15151\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15151\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Omotesa<\/a> added another solid performance, placing fifth overall with a time of 47.26.<\/p>\n<p>In the field, Jake Schaefer represented Wisconsin in the discus, recording a throw of 153 feet, 5 inches (46.76 meters)<\/p>\n<p>Up Next: The Badgers split competition for a weekend at the Penn Relays and Drake Relays from April 23-25.<\/p>\n<p>Beach Invitational<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nSaturday, April 18, 2026<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLong Beach, California<\/p>\n<p>Results<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n200 Meters<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n1. Joshua Onwunili, 20.46<\/p>\n<p>400 Meters<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n5. <a href=\"https:\/\/uwbadgers.com\/sports\/mens-track-and-field\/roster\/zion-omotesa\/15151\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15151\" target=\"_blank\">Zion Omotesa<\/a>, 47.26<\/p>\n<p>Discus<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n37. Jake Schaefer, 153-5 (46.76m)&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2013 The Wisconsin men&#8217;s track and field team turned in a strong showing on Saturday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-275083","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\/275083","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=275083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}