Track Central: Tiger Paw Invite/Music City Challenge/BU Valentine Invite/Millrose Games

Friday, February 10

Clemson, S.C.

University of Tennessee

Tiger Paw Invite

Tiger Paw Pre-Meet - Harding, Bynum, Henderson

Photo by: Forest Jersey/Tennessee Athletics

Track Central: Tiger Paw Invite/Music City Challenge/BU Valentine Invite/Millrose Games

February 09, 2023 | Track & Field

Tiger Paw Meet Schedule Music City Meet Schedule BU Valentine Meet Schedule

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- Two weeks out from the SEC Indoor Championships, the Tennessee track & field program is split across four meets on Friday and Saturday. The Big Orange sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers have returned to Clemson, South Carolina, for the Tiger Paw Invitational, while a group of distance runners and throwers will trek to the midstate for the Music City Challenge at Vanderbilt.

A crop of 5k specialists will run at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational at Boston University, and Dylan Jacobs suits up for the Millrose Games in New York City in an elite men's 3k field featuring numerous Olympians and World Championship qualifiers. The Dr. Sander Invitational 3,000m will start Saturday at 5 p.m. ET and be nationally televised on NBC.

Full schedules for both meets can be viewed at the links above.

FOLLOW LIVE: The Tiger Paw Invitational will be streamed live both days via ACC Network Extra (Friday Stream / Saturday Steam), and live results will be provided throughout the weekend by AdkinsTrak Timing Associates.

In Nashville, the Music City Challenge will broadcast online through SEC Network+ (Friday Stream / Saturday Stream), and live results will be distributed by PrimeTime Timing, Inc.

FloTrack subscribers can watch the action in Boston at this link for both days, while live results will be available via Lancer Timing Services.

The Millrose Games will air nationally on NBC from 4 to 6 p.m. ET. Jacobs is set to run in a stellar field featuring defending meet champion Geordie Beamish, U.S. champion Cooper Teare and Olympic bronze medalist Josh Kerr among several other elite professional and collegiate athletes.

RANKINGS UPDATE: In Monday's installment of the USTFCCCA Track & Field Rating Index (TFRI), the Vols checked in at No. 6 in the NCAA Division I national rankings while the Lady Vols were slotted No. 12. Tennessee is one of five schools nationwide and one of two in the SEC with both its men's and women's squads ranked inside the top-12 in the country.

NCAA CALIBER: On the most recent TFRRS 2022-23 NCAA Division I Indoor Qualifying List, four Vols and four Lady Vols are ranked inside the top-16 nationally of their respective events this season. Graduate student Charisma Taylor headlines the group, ranking top-10 in the nation in three events: 60-meter hurdles, triple jump and long jump.

Jacious Sears - Women's 60m - 7.17 (NCAA No. 5)
Joella Lloyd - Women's 60m - 7.20 (NCAA No. 7)
Jonah Ross - Women's 60m - 7.25 (NCAA No. 15)
Jacious Sears - Women's 200m - 23.18 (NCAA No. 12)
Charisma Taylor - Women's 60m Hurdles - 8.10 (NCAA No. 9)
Charisma Taylor - Women's Long Jump - 6.44m / 21-1.5 (NCAA No. 7)
Charisma Taylor - Women's Triple Jump - 13.86m / 45-5.75 (NCAA No. 3)
Javonte Harding - Men's 200m - 20.60 (NCAA No. 5)
Emmanuel Bynum - Men's 200m - 20.69 (NCAA No. 9)
Emmanuel Bynum - Men's 400m - 46.05 (NCAA No. 5)
Yaseen Abdalla - Men's 3000m - 7:42.23 (NCAA No. 3)
Dylan Jacobs - Men's 5000m - 13:11.01 (NCAA No. 1)

UP NEXT: For many UT athletes competing this weekend, the regular indoor season will come to a close before the squad heads to Fayetteville, Arkansas, Feb. 24-25 for the SEC Championships. Tennessee will send a DMR squad to the Alex Wilson Invitational at Notre Dame next Saturday, Feb. 18, to punctuate the regular indoor season.