{"id":213107,"date":"2026-03-20T16:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213107\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:36:17","slug":"red-raiders-open-outdoor-season-at-acu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/213107\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders open outdoor season at ACU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Texas Tech outdoor track and field team will open its season at the 12th-annual Wes Kittley Invite Friday and Saturday at Elmer Gray Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Tech will be traveling a limited squad this weekend before opening with a bigger roster at next weekend&#8217;s home meet \u2013 the Masked Rider Open.<\/p>\n<p>Friday afternoon will begin with the throws as the discus and javelin will get underway for the first time all year. On the women&#8217;s side, leading returner <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/leah-howard\/14143\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14143\" target=\"_blank\">Leah Howard<\/a> holds a PB mark of 50.01m (164-4) \u2013 she placed fourth at Big 12s last season. Day one will be wrapped up with the 1500m and 5k races.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday&#8217;s field events begin at 11 a.m. with the pole vault as the women compete first, followed by the men. The shot put will commence near 3 p.m. Newcomer <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/sean-dixon\/14379\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14379\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Dixon<\/a> will look to make his debut as he&#8217;s the 2025 NCAA DII champion in the 400m hurdles. He holds a PB time of 49.54.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Texas Tech outdoor track and field team will open its season at the 12th-annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-213107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213107","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=213107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}