By Loryn Canty<\/p>\n
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The No. 4-ranked University of Michigan men’s track and field team will return to the Sunshine State to compete at the Florida Relays on Friday and Saturday (April 3-4) at Percy Beard Track in Gainesville. Action on Friday will begin with the 4×100-meter relay preliminaries at 2:45 p.m., and Saturday’s action will begin at 12:30 p.m. with the 110-meter hurdles preliminaries.<\/p>\n
Notes<\/p>\n
\u2022 Michigan debuted at No. 4 in the first release of the USTFCCCA Rankings, leading the Great Lakes Region and sitting in third in the Big Ten.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The 1,500-meter run event squad (Trent McFarland<\/a>, Brendan Herger<\/a>, Henry Dixon<\/a>, and Aiden Sullivan<\/a>) and the 800-meter event squad (Camden Law<\/a>, Miles Brown<\/a>, McFarland, and John O’Reilly<\/a>) are ranked No. 1 in the NCAA.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Wolverines return from a split weekend, sending the distance group to the Raleigh Relays at NC State while the jumpers and throwers went to the Hurricane Collegiate Invitational hosted by Miami.<\/p>\n \u2022 In the 800-meter run, U-M grabbed the top four spots, led by Law’s meet-record time of 1:46:80. Brown finished second (1:47.16), while McFarland (1:47.25) and John O’Reilly<\/a> (1:47.70) placed third and fourth, respectively. McFarland and O’Reilly’s times come in at No. 8 and No. 9 on the program performers list.<\/p>\n \u2022 McFarland won the 1,500-meter run with a personal best of 3:35.80 and the No. 2 mark on the program performers list. Herger (3:36.03) and Dixon (3:38.70) placed second and fourth, respectively, setting the No. 3 and No. 5 times on the program performers list.<\/p>\n \u2022 In the 5,000-meter run, Nathan Lopez<\/a> ran a personal best of 13:42.56 for a 13th-place finish and the No. 6 mark on the program performers list.<\/p>\n \u2022 Josh Huisman<\/a> placed second in the shot put with a season-best mark of 18.87m (61 feet, 11 inches) and Zane Forist<\/a> placed seventh in the discus with a season-best throw of 53.05m (174-0).<\/p>\n \u2022 U-M will remain on the road, heading to Athens, Ga., for the Spec Towns Invitational on Friday and Saturday, April 10-11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Loryn Canty ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The No. 4-ranked University of Michigan men’s track and field team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-216503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216503","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=216503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}