{"id":263788,"date":"2026-04-24T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263788\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T03:17:07","slug":"roberts-highlights-opening-day-of-penn-relays-texas-am-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/263788\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts Highlights Opening Day of Penn Relays &#8211; Texas A&#038;M Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M track &amp; field&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/megan-roberts\/15196\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15196\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Roberts<\/a> highlighted the opening day of the Penn Relays after running the second-fastest time in school history in the 5,000m Thursday at Franklin Field.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nRoberts set the tone for the weekend, as she clocked a time of 15:50.29 in the women&#8217;s 5,000m which moved her up from No. 4 to No. 2 on A&amp;M&#8217;s all-time performers list and landed her ninth in the event. On the men&#8217;s side, <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/jack-johnston\/15167\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15167\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Johnston<\/a> ran 13:49.19 to top the Aggie contingent finishing 13th, while <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/youssef-asslouj\/15330\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15330\" target=\"_blank\">Youssef Asslouj<\/a> placed 19th in the field and entered the A&amp;M record book at No. 9 with a time of 13:58.62.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe women&#8217;s 3,000m steeplechase duo of <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/debora-cherono\/15127\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15127\" target=\"_blank\">Debora Cherono<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/emma-little\/15175\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15175\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Little<\/a> logged a pair of top-15 finishes. Cherono secured ninth place after finishing in 10:13.53, while Little was 13th in 10:18.77. <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/hunter-jackson\/15164\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15164\" target=\"_blank\">Hunter Jackson<\/a> in the men&#8217;s event ran sub-nine minutes for the first time in his career, clocking 8:59.52 to finish 26th.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the 1,500m, Ondrej Gajdo\u0161 finished 14th with a mark of 3:44.71, and <a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/elise-smoot\/15207\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"15207\" target=\"_blank\">Elise Smoot<\/a> on the women&#8217;s side finished 45th with a mark of 4:30.78.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNext Up<br \/>\nThe Aggies return to Franklin Field tomorrow for the second day of the Penn Relays, while the Michael Johnson Invitational kicks off at Baylor.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFollow the Aggies<br \/>\nVisit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/12thman.com\/sports\/track-and-field\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">12thMan.com<\/a>\u00a0for more information on Texas A&amp;M Track &amp; Field. Fans can keep up with the Aggie Track &amp; Field team on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/aggietfxc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/aggietfxc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aggietfxc\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter\/X<\/a>\u00a0by following @aggietfxc.<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2013\u00a0Texas A&amp;M track &amp; field&#8217;s Megan Roberts highlighted the opening day of the Penn Relays after running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-263788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263788","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=263788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}