{"id":198480,"date":"2026-03-19T23:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198480\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:38:45","slug":"troy-track-and-field-opens-outdoor-season-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198480\/","title":{"rendered":"Troy Track and Field Opens Outdoor Season in Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troy, Ala.\u00a0\u2013 Troy Track &amp;\u00a0Field heads the 2026 outdoor season at the USF Alumni Invitational from March 20-21.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe meet is set to begin Friday morning at 10 a.m. with the men&#8217;s javelin. The running events will start later in the evening, with the 400-meter hurdles at 5 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans are looking to continue the momentum from their record-setting indoor season, where they set 10 new program records across seven events. The indoor season was headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/troytrojans.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/faith-jones\/11951\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11951\" target=\"_blank\">Faith Jones<\/a>, \u00a0setting a new program best of 8.32 in the women&#8217;s 60-meter hurdles to win gold at the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championships.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What: USF Alumni Invitational<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWhen: March 20-21\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWhere: USF Track and Field Stadium (Tampa, Fla.)\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nWatch: ESPN+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Troy, Ala.\u00a0\u2013 Troy Track &amp;\u00a0Field heads the 2026 outdoor season at the USF Alumni Invitational from March 20-21.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-198480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}