{"id":154682,"date":"2026-02-07T03:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154682\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T03:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T03:54:07","slug":"uta-starts-charlie-thomas-invitational-with-strong-friday-of-personal-bests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/154682\/","title":{"rendered":"UTA Starts Charlie Thomas Invitational with Strong Friday of Personal Bests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/documents\/2026\/2\/6\/Day_1_Results_Charlie_Thomas.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Day One Results &#8212; Charlie Thomas Texas A&amp;M\u00a0Invitational<\/a><\/p>\n<p>COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington track and field team opened competition at the Charlie Thomas Invitational with a strong showing on Friday at the Fasken Indoor Track, highlighted by two top-four finishes and multiple personal records.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/eliza-lemberga\/14810\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14810\" target=\"_blank\">Eliza Lemberga<\/a> led the way for the Mavericks, placing fourth in the pentathlon with a personal best score of 4,052 points. After today, her performance in the pentathlon currently ranks 15th in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s weight throw, senior <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/jaalah-puryear\/14816\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14816\" target=\"_blank\">Jaalah Puryear<\/a> earned a fourth-place finish after matching her personal-best mark of 16.72 meters. Esther Adidire also posted a personal record in the event, throwing 15.75 meters to secure an eighth-place finish.<\/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> also posted a personal best in the women&#8217;s long jump (5.82m), earning ninth place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/ardo-cserni\/14832\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14832\" target=\"_blank\">Ardo Cserni<\/a> tied his personal best in the men&#8217;s pole vault (4.60m), as did <a href=\"https:\/\/utamavs.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/bryce-vaughn\/14791\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14791\" target=\"_blank\">Bryce Vaughn<\/a> in the men&#8217;s long jump with a 6.63m mark.<\/p>\n<p>NEXT UP<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Mavericks will continue competition on Saturday, the last day of the Charlie Thomas Invitational at the Fasken Indoor Track.<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>\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; Day One Results &#8212; Charlie Thomas Texas A&amp;M\u00a0Invitational COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UT Arlington&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,151],"class_list":{"0":"post-154682","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\/154682","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=154682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}