{"id":124841,"date":"2026-01-15T21:23:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124841\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T21:23:09","slug":"track-field-opens-indoor-season-at-arkansas-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/124841\/","title":{"rendered":"Track &#038; Field Opens Indoor Season at Arkansas Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013\u00a0The the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s UT Arlington track and field teams are set to begin their indoor season at the Arkansas Invitational hosted by Arkansas on Friday, Jan. 16.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe meet will be held at the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville, Ark. with field events beginning at 12 p.m. CT, starting with men&#8217;s shot put and concluding with women&#8217;s weight throw at 7 p.m. Running events kick off at 12:30 p.m. with preliminary heats of the 60-meter hurdles. The competition will conclude with the 4&#215;400-meter relay races, as the women run at 8:20 p.m., followed by the men at 8:45 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nThe entire event will be streamed live on SEC Network+. Fans can also follow along via live results &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flashresults.com\/2026_Meets\/Indoor\/01-16_ArkansasInvite\/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCOMPETING TEAMS<br \/>\nAlong with UTA and the host Arkansas, the following teams are scheduled to compete: Arkansas-Pine Bluff, Central Arkansas, Coffeyville CC (KS), Iowa, John Brown (Ark.), Louisiana Tech, North Texas, Oklahoma City, Oral Roberts, Southern Miss, Stephen F. Austin, Tennessee and Texas State.<\/p>\n<p>STORYLINES&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tFour-time WAC champion <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/hayden-wilson\/14795\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14795\" target=\"_blank\">Hayden Wilson<\/a> opens his senior campaign after posting the fifth-best men&#8217;s indoor shot-put mark in program history last season (56-8 1\/2, 17.28m).&#13;<br \/>\n\tWilson, <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/alex-kalmar\/14784\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14784\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Kalmar<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/zaire-moore\/11743\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11743\" target=\"_blank\">Zaire Moore<\/a>, were among UTA&#8217;s eight NCAA West Preliminary Round qualifiers a season ago and all return for the 2026 indoor season.&#13;<br \/>\n\tMoore, back for her senior year, set the program record in the 60-meter hurdles last season with a time of 8.51.&#13;<br \/>\n\tKalmar, returning as a junior, established program records in the both the 800 meters (1:48.20) and the mile (4:03.61) during the 2025 indoor season.&#13;<br \/>\n\tSenior <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/logan-villalva\/11757\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11757\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Villalva<\/a> owns the second-best weight throw mark in program history after recording a throw of 61-3 (18.67m) last season.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/luke-bontke\/11753\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11753\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Bontke<\/a> posted the fourth-highest heptathlon score in program history last season with 5,435 points.&#13;<br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/eliza-lemberga\/14810\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14810\" target=\"_blank\">Eliza Lemberga<\/a> set the program record in the pentathlon a year ago, totaling 4,312 points.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 #BuckEm \u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFor updates, behind-the-scenes photos, videos and more engaging and personal content, be sure to follow the UTA track and field and cross country teams on X (formally known as Twitter) (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UTAMAVSTFXC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/utamavsTFXC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UTAMavsTFXC\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/UTAMavsTFXC<\/a>).<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013\u00a0The the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s UT Arlington track and field teams are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-124841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arlington","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-arlington-headlines","10":"tag-arlington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}