{"id":233022,"date":"2026-04-15T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233022\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T17:56:09","slug":"ohio-state-travels-to-florida-and-virginia-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233022\/","title":{"rendered":"Ohio State Travels to Florida and Virginia This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Ohio\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Ohio State track and field team travels to Gainesville, Fla., for the Tom Jones Memorial and to Charlottesville, Va., for the Virginia Challenge this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s action at the Tom Jones Memorial, hosted by the University of Florida, begins at noon with the men&#8217;s hammer throw and women&#8217;s 200m, while Saturday&#8217;s schedule commences with the women&#8217;s discus competition at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Field events will begin at 9:30 a.m. Friday at the Virginia Challenge on the campus of the University of Virginia, leading off with the women&#8217;s hammer throw, while track events\u00a0get underway at 3 p.m. beginning with the women&#8217;s 100m dash prelims. The women&#8217;s 5000m will be the first event to begin Saturday, scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/sports\/womens-track-field\/roster\/aniya-mosley\/1868\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1868\" target=\"_blank\">Aniya Mosley<\/a>\u00a0is ranked third in the women&#8217;s 1500m with her program record time of 4:08.54 recorded at the Raleigh Relays.<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/sports\/mens-track-field\/roster\/braxton-brann\/12805\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12805\" target=\"_blank\">Braxton Brann&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0wind-aided time of 13.44 (+3.5) in the men&#8217;s 110m hurdles has him ranked fifth in the nation.<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/sports\/mens-track-field\/roster\/dj-fillmore\/12815\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12815\" target=\"_blank\">DJ Fillmore&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0wind-aided mark of 7.86m\/25&#8217;9.5 (+2.5) in the men&#8217;s long jump is currently the 10th best in the country, while Victor Tornstrom is ranked 24th with a wind-aided distance of 7.72m\/25&#8217;4 (+3.2).<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/sports\/womens-track-field\/roster\/katie-castelli\/12851\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12851\" target=\"_blank\">Katie Castelli&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0program best time of 10:04.34 in the women&#8217;s 3000m steeplechase is ranked as the 11th best in the country.<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/sports\/womens-track-field\/roster\/janela-spencer\/1933\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"1933\" target=\"_blank\">Janela Spencer<\/a>\u00a0recorded a wind-aided 13.11 (+3.7) in the women&#8217;s 100m hurdles at the Texas Relays, which is currently ranked 16th.<a href=\"https:\/\/ohiostatebuckeyes.com\/sports\/mens-track-field\/roster\/nazzio-john\/12817\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12817\" target=\"_blank\">Nazzio John<\/a>\u00a0currently has the 24th best men&#8217;s 100m time in the nation with his 10.21 recorded at the Texas Relays.Ohio State has three relay squads ranked in the TFRRS\u00a0top 25 for their respective events, including the men&#8217;s 4x400m (11th), women&#8217;s 4x400m (15th) and men&#8217;s 4x100m (25th).<\/p>\n<p>#GoBucks\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBUS, Ohio\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Ohio State track and field team travels to Gainesville, Fla., for the Tom Jones Memorial and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-233022","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\/233022","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=233022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}