{"id":313609,"date":"2026-05-29T07:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313609\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:02:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:02:16","slug":"bragg-secures-his-spot-in-eugene-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/313609\/","title":{"rendered":"Bragg secures his spot in Eugene Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013 The women&#8217;s Texas Tech track and field team wrapped up day two of the NCAA West First Rounds Thursday evening at John McDonnell Field.<\/p>\n<p>Meet Coverage<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/flashresults.ncaa.com\/Outdoor\/2026\/FirstRounds\/West\/index.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live result\/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\">ESPN+<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/jackson-bragg\/14123\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14123\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Bragg<\/a> punched his first career ticket to nationals as he cleared 5.37m (17-7 \u00bc) to place 10th overall. The freshman will make it four-straight seasons a pole vaulter on the men&#8217;s side competes at nationals for Tech. The men&#8217;s pole vault was moved to today due to yesterday&#8217;s weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/symoria-adkins\/14173\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14173\" target=\"_blank\">Symoria Adkins<\/a> dropped a huge PB in the 100m hurdles, coming away with the best time overall today at 12.80 (+1.8w). The time moves to No. 5 all-time for Texas Tech in the process. <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/tonie-ann-forbes\/14136\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14136\" target=\"_blank\">Tonie-Ann Forbes<\/a> finished 11th going 13.23 (+1.2w), taking second in her heat. <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/auceane-bouijoux\/14176\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14176\" target=\"_blank\">Auceane Bouijoux<\/a> secured one of the next six best times going 13.39 (+0.7w).<\/p>\n<p>Both women&#8217;s 400m hurdlers qualified for Saturday&#8217;s quarterfinals as <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/vanessa-balde\/14120\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14120\" target=\"_blank\">Vanessa Balde<\/a> won her heat at 56.52. <a href=\"https:\/\/texastech.com\/sports\/track-and-field\/roster\/lovina-ewusi\/14179\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14179\" target=\"_blank\">Lovina Ewusi<\/a> finished third in her heat at 57.61.<\/p>\n<p>Notables<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe Tech men will start their day final tomorrow beginning with the high jump at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. \u2013 The women&#8217;s Texas Tech track and field team wrapped up day two of the NCAA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-313609","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\/313609","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=313609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}