{"id":292360,"date":"2026-05-14T05:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292360\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:07:17","slug":"red-raiders-set-for-big-12-outdoor-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/292360\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Raiders set for Big 12 Outdoor Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Texas Tech track and field team is set to compete in the 2026 Big 12 Outdoor Championships this Thursday through Saturday at Drachman Stadium hosted by Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Coverage<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/flashresults.com\/2026_Meets\/Outdoor\/05-14_Big12\/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live results\/schedule<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/watch\/catalog\/edb3a386-604c-341a-ba4a-b7b7e44d41a7\/track-field#bucketId=29774&amp;sourceCollection=Browse_By_Sport_New\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch\/ESPN+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous 5 Results (Men)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1st \u2013 136 points (2025)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2nd \u2013 155 points (2024)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1st &#8211; 179 points (2023)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3rd &#8211; 118 points (2022)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5th \u2013 85 points (2021)<\/p>\n<p>Previous 5 Results (Women)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1st \u2013 127 points (2025)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3rd \u2013 96.50 points (2024)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4th \u2013 93.50 points (2023)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2nd \u2013 162 points (2022)<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3rd \u2013 106.50 points (2021)<\/p>\n<p>Rankings<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIn the week seven rankings by the USTFCCCA, the women head into the meet ranked eighth as BYU is ahead of them in fourth. The men are slotted 13th with only Kansas State ranked ahead of them by one spot in 12th.<\/p>\n<p>What to Know<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Tech men and women teams will be looking to claim their second-consecutive Big 12 outdoor titles this weekend and complete the season sweep with both indoor titles already secured. Overall, the men&#8217;s team has won the title in the last two of three seasons and will be looking for its seventh overall trophy. Meanwhile, the women&#8217;s team won the title for the first time last season.<\/p>\n<p>Staying on the women&#8217;s side, <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/temitope-adeshina\/14117\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14117\" target=\"_blank\">Temitope Adeshina<\/a> (high jump) is the only returner that will look to defend her title \u2013 she&#8217;s won two-straight outdoors and is looking for five-straight when you include the indoor season. The men&#8217;s squad has two returners that claimed an individual title last season \u2013 BJ Jennings (high jump) and <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/desean-boyce\/14122\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14122\" target=\"_blank\">Desean Boyce<\/a> (400m). The 4&#215;100 team also secured the title with <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/johnathan-crawford\/14130\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14130\" target=\"_blank\">Johnathan Crawford<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/kimarlie-stewart\/14166\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14166\" target=\"_blank\">Kimarlie Stewart<\/a> both on there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas \u2013 The Texas Tech track and field team is set to compete in the 2026 Big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-292360","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\/292360","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=292360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}