{"id":152849,"date":"2026-02-05T23:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/152849\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T23:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:21:07","slug":"mavericks-set-for-texas-am-charlie-thomas-invitational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/152849\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavericks Set for Texas A&#038;M Charlie Thomas Invitational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington track &amp;Field team returns to action this weekend at the 2026 Charlie Thomas Invitational, hosted by Texas A&amp;M at the R.A &#8220;Murray&#8221; Fasken &#8217;38 Indoor Track in Bryan-College Station. The two-day meet is scheduled from Friday, Feb. 6 through Saturday, Feb. 7.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCompetition on Friday begins with combined events at 11 a.m. CT, opening with the men&#8217;s heptathlon and women&#8217;s pentathlon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nField events are scheduled to start at 9:30 a.m. CT, starting with women&#8217;s weight throw. Additional field finals such as men&#8217;s shot put, pole vault, long jump and high jump will continue into the evening.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRunning events will get underway at 5 p.m. CT, beginning with the women&#8217;s 200 meters. Friday&#8217;s track slate includes the 200m, 5000m and 400m events. The first day of competition is projected to conclude at approximately 7:45 p.m. CT.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSaturday&#8217;s action resumes with combined events at 11 a.m. CT, continuing the men&#8217;s heptathlon.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nField events will also open at 11 a.m. CT, starting with the men&#8217;s weight throw. Field competition will continue throughout the afternoon, including the women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s triple jump, women&#8217;s shot put and women&#8217;s pole vault finals.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nRunning events are scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. CT with sectioned 3000-meter races. The afternoon track schedule features the 60m, 60m hurdles, mile, 800m, 1000m and 4&#215;400 relay. The meet is expected to wrap up at approximately 6:15 p.m.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW ALONG<br \/>\nFans can follow along via live results &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/flashresults.com\/2026_Meets\/Indoor\/02-06_CharlieThomas\/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Results<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCOMPETING TEAMS<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe field for the Charlie Thomas Invitational includes Texas A&amp;M, Abilene Christian, Arizona State, East Texas A&amp;M, Houston, Rice, Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, SMU, South Plains, Texas Southern, Texas State, UCF UT Arlington, UT Rio Grande Valley, UTSA and Western Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0&#13;\n<\/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<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; COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington track &amp;Field team returns to action this weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-152849","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\/152849","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=152849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}