{"id":233911,"date":"2026-04-16T07:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233911\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:16:17","slug":"previewing-the-weekend-at-wake-forest-and-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233911\/","title":{"rendered":"Previewing the Weekend at Wake Forest and Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

BIRMINGHAM \u2013 Over the next three days, several athletes from the UAB Track & Field team will be competing against some of the best athletes across the country. The distance runners on the team will head to Winston-Salem, North Carolina to compete in the Wake Forest Invitational on Thursday and Friday. Hannah-Sophie Pippel<\/a> will be traveling to Gainesville, Florida for the Heptathlon portion of the Tom Jones Invitational on the campus of the University of Florida.<\/p>\n

Kelly Hughes<\/a> kicks off the weekend in the 400m Hurdles and is later joined by Lia Castillo<\/a> in the 800m race. Castillo will also compete in the 1500m race. Lidia Longo<\/a> will be competing in the same 1500m race as well as the 3000m Steeplechase. Kenlie Nelson<\/a> is slated to race in the 5000m.<\/p>\n

Thursday Events

\n5:00 to 5:40 – \u00a0W 800m:\u00a0Kelly Hughes<\/a>

\n5:00 to 5:40 –\u00a0W 800m:\u00a0Lia Castillo<\/a>

\n7:00 – W 3000m Steeple:\u00a0Lidia Longo<\/a>

\n9:35 – W 5000m:\u00a0Kenlie Nelson<\/a><\/p>\n

Friday Events

\n11:40 to 12:10 – W 1500m: Lia Castillo<\/a>

\n11:40 to 12:10 – W 1500m: Lidia Longo<\/a>

\n2:00 – W 400m Hurdles: Kelly Hughes<\/a><\/p>\n

In Gainesville, Hannah-Sophie Pippel<\/a> will compete in seven different events this weekend. On Friday, she will take part in the 100m Hurdles, High Jump, Shot Put, and 200m. Saturday’s events include the Long Jump, Javelin, and 800m.<\/p>\n

THE LAST TIME OUT

\nThe Blazers had a couple of strong showings in the Crimson Tide Invitational in Tuscaloosa. The day was highlighted by Lia Castillo<\/a> in the 800m. Castillo placed sixth overall out of 28 runners and finished with a time of 2:10.01. Castillo’s 800m time now ranks eighth in school history.<\/p>\n

Lidia Longo<\/a> was the lone Blazer in the 1500m race. Longo ran the race in 4:36.52 which was her personal best.<\/p>\n

MEET INFORMATION

\nFans can access live results, meet information, and the entire meet schedules on uabsports.com\/sports\/womens-track-and-field<\/a>.<\/p>\n

FOLLOW THE BLAZERS

\nTo keep up with UAB Track & Field, follow @UAB_TF_XC on Instagram and X.<\/p>\n

BLAZER MADE

\nBlazer student-athletes are provided every resource possible to be champions in competition and in life. The Blazer Made initiative was created to provide comprehensive programming in Personal Development, Leadership and Career Preparedness. Your support to Blazer Made is an investment in holistic education and a commitment to impact the future of each Blazer athlete who wears the Green & Gold. Click here<\/a> or connect with Blazer Boosters on how you can continue to fuel success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BIRMINGHAM \u2013 Over the next three days, several athletes from the UAB Track & Field team will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-233911","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\/233911","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=233911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}