{"id":145412,"date":"2026-01-31T14:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145412\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T14:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:35:09","slug":"mavericks-start-robert-platt-invitational-with-solid-day-one-performances-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/145412\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Start Robert Platt Invitational with Solid Day One Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/documents\/2026\/1\/30\/2026_uhrplatt-fridayresults.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Platt Invitational \u2013 Day One Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHOUSTON, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington track and field team opened competition at the Robert Platt Invitational with a strong showing on Friday at the Yeoman Fieldhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/arieanna-mcpeak\/14825\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14825\" target=\"_blank\">Arieanna Mcpeak<\/a> placed third overall in the women&#8217;s triple jump with a final mark of 12.05 meters, earning first place among freshmen in the field.<\/p>\n<p>Junior <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/eliza-lemberga\/14810\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14810\" target=\"_blank\">Eliza Lemberga<\/a> qualified for the women&#8217;s 60-meter hurdles semifinals after posting a time of 9.10 seconds in prelims. Lemberga will advance to compete in the semifinals on Saturday at 1:45 p.m. CT. After semifinals, eight athletes will advance to the finals.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nNEXT UP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mavericks will continue competition on the final day of the Robert Platt Invitational, competing in the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s 3000 meters, the remainder of the heptathlon, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s high jump, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s long jump, men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s shot put and the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s 800.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>#BuckEm<\/p>\n<p>FOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFollow the UTA track and field and cross country teams on X (<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<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; Robert Platt Invitational \u2013 Day One Results \u00a0 HOUSTON, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington track&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-145412","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\/145412","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=145412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}