Track splits up for weekend meets

Friday, April 27, 2007

The Jayhawks will have athletes at two different locations in the hopes of bringing home more regional qualifying marks.

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Most of the track and field athletes will take the trip to Des Moines, Iowa, for the Drake Relays, while a small contingent of distance runners will travel west for the Cardinal Invitational in Stanford, Calif.

At last season’s Drake Relays, a meet very similar to the Kansas Relays, junior Egor Agafonov won the hammer throw with his career-best toss of 233-0 feet Agafonov won the Kansas Relays this year with a season-best throw of 227-05 feet and is the favorite heading into Saturday’s competition.

Sophomore Zlata Tarasova, also competing in the hammer throw, will look to build on her eighth place finish a year ago.

Fresh off his Kansas Relays victory, senior Eric Babb takes on the long jump with junior Barrett Saunders providing some friendly competition.

Junior Kate Sultanova will compete in the special section of the pole vault on Saturday, while freshmen Kirk Cooper and Jordan Scott each get their first Drake experience as a college athlete on Friday in the pole vault.

Throwing the discus will be senior Cody Roberts, and hurling the shot put will be senior Abby Emsick and sophomore Stephanie Horton.

Headlining the group of distance runners that will be heading to Stanford, Calif., are junior All-Americans Paul Hefferon and Colby Wissel.

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Hefferon and Wissel each ran in the 1,500 meters at the Kansas Relays in order to prepare themselves for this weekend’s races. The goal was to work on certain muscles that the runners will need at the end of a long race.

Wissel will run in the 5,000 meters and Hefferon is scheduled to run his first-ever 10,000-meter race.

Kansan sportswriter Taylor Bern can be contacted at tbern@kansan.com.

—Edited by Lisa Tilson

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