COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UNT track and field program completed a successful weekend at the 44 Farms Invitational, setting numerous personal bests and capturing a pair of individual championships.<\/p>\n
North Texas opened the weekend with a dominant performance in the women’s 5,000 meters as Aubrey Milam<\/a> took gold and Aditi Silwal<\/a> was close behind in second. Making her collegiate debut in the event, Milam won with a time of 17:11.43.<\/p>\n Oluwatimilehim Williams<\/a> then gave the Mean Green their second title of the weekend in discus, besting the field with a throw of 58.24 meters. Friday’s action also saw Aniyah Harrison-Stewart<\/a> set a personal record and take second in the long jump at 6.11 meters, as well as a third-place finish by Nolan House<\/a> in the 5,000 meters.<\/p>\n The following day, UNT received fourth-place finishes in shot put from both Justin Craft Jr.<\/a> and Ava Roberts<\/a>. In addition, the Mean Green women’s 4×100 relay team placed second while Hunter Hendry<\/a> was runner-up in the men’s 3,000-meter steeplechase. The men’s and women’s 4×400 relay teams also closed the weekend well in second and fifth, respectively.<\/p>\n In all, UNT athletes combined for 16 top-five finishes and 13 personal bests.<\/p>\n North Texas returns to competition next weekend when it hosts the Bill Schmidt Invite in Denton. The two-day event begins Friday and concludes Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLLEGE STATION, Texas \u2013\u00a0The UNT track and field program completed a successful weekend at the 44 Farms Invitational,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-245892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245892","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=245892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}