Discuss thrower Serena Brown has transferred to Iowa State. She didn't compete in 2019. I don't know if it was injury or some other reason. She has a PB of 60.39m from 2018

that's a huge loss for us

The new Bobby Grant!

ALWAYS GOOD TO HEAR TRACK NEWS! HATE TO HEAR OF ANYONE TRANSFERRING OUT...BUT SOME GOOD NEWS IN THAT BURNS IS COMING TO A&M (HE HAS THE 2ND FASTEST HIGH SCHOL 300 HURDLE TIME EVER RUN :35.25 AS A JUNIOR)
ALSO JOING THE HURLDE'S CREW ARE QUENTIN ZAPATA OF DEVINE, TX (13.84, 3A STATE CHAMP AND CONNOR SCHULMAN OF RICE ALTAIR 3A STAE FINALIST WITH A BEST OF 14.27.
PABLO ZOLEZZI OF BROWNSVILLE ST JOSEPH WILL COMPETE IN THE WEIGHT EVEMTS.

Pole Vaulter Kristen Masucci is also another addition to the team.
She holds a PR of 3.73m

Several of Recruits are already on campus and enrolled for classes

Those that are enrolled are
Katie Aldredge
Lance Broome
Bianca Cardenas
Colton Colonna
Chris Ford
Patrick Johnson
Kristen Masucci
Connor Schulman
Michael Schmuhl
Pablo Zolezzi

Those not yet enrolled are
Lamara Distin (Jamaica)
Amanda Hansson (Sweden)
Bobby Holt
Madi Malouf
Kyle Stulce
Andre Turay
Drew Williams
Charokee Young (Jamaica)
Quentin Zapata

It seems like Danyel White is now leaving Texas A&M

In about one week the USATF championships will take place in Des Moines (Drake University)...the meet is the qualifying meet for the World Championships to be held in Quatar in late September into early October. This meet is being held almost a month later this year due to the "late" timing of he World Meet.
Current/former Ags expected to compete on the men's side are as follows:
100 and 200 Ameer Webb
400 Fred kerley, Bryce Deadmon, and Mylek Kerley
800 Donovan Brazier.......Devin Dixon and Carleton Orange have scratched
400IH Robert Grant and Dewitt Thomas have each scratched
PV Audie Wyatt
Sam Hardin has not yet been accepted, but has applied...may be added as field is small
Nathan Hite who will compete in the Pan Am Games next motnh has not been accepted and scratched

New addition to the team is Joshua Moses from the state of Georgia.
He competes in the throw events Discuss, Shot Put, Hammer and Weight throws.

His PBs are
Hammer - 49.22m
SP - 15.8m
Discuss - 38m
Weight - 18.7m

He only started doing the hammer and weight last year August

Aggie Track signee Lamara Distin from Jamaica won silver medal at the Panam under 20 track and field championship this past weekend. She jumped 1.81m in the high jump for the silver medal with the eventual winner jumping 1.83m.
Lamara's PB though is 1.87m

The 2019-2020 indoor and outdoor track schedule is out.
We are hosting the 2020 SEC outdoor championship

https://12thman.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=322

yards and inches . PLEASE!

triniaggie said:

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The 2019-2020 indoor and outdoor track schedule is out.
We are hosting the 2020 SEC outdoor championship

https://12thman.com/schedule.aspx?schedule=322

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Indoor AND Outdoor conference championships.

Thanks for all the info

It continues. Gabe Oladipo has left A&M for Texas Tech. Just wondering what is going on in Throws department. Serena Brown and now Gabe Oladipo.
I also notice some of the athletes have remove Texas A&M track and field on their twitter accounts.
It continues to be a secret on what is going with the coaching

Bubortho. Why didn't these athletes score at NCAA? Ask yourself that question instead of accusing me of negative speculation. Weren't these athletes recruited to develop and score at NCAA and if after several years they haven't scored and decided to leave the program, then you be the judge. I base all my comments here on actual facts. For your information and other like you these are two top notched athletes. They both represented their counties at world junior championship. Serena Brown was a 60m plus discuss thrower which could have won NCAA this year but did not compete and left the program. Gabe Oladipo was one of the top junior athlete in the discus and shot put in the country when he arrived at A&M and have definitely struggled while here. Those are the facts. I am not making anything up. There is no track program that is perfect, there are always challenges but the program here is always about secrecy and that is what some people have a problem with as supporters of the track and field program. I have nothing further to say

An interesting comparison of progression is between Adrian Piperi of The Woodlands/UT and Oladipo. Both competed head to head as high schoolers and commonly placed 1-2. Oladipo had an incredible, record setting post hs graduation summer.

Piperi, however, has exceeded most folks expectations through his sophomore year at Texas, winning the NCAA Outdoor this year and has bested 70'. Oladipo hasn't come close to 60 yet if my memory serves me.

Pointing the blame solely at the staff is foolish, just as it is when football (or any other sport) has good players that leave the program.

Bubortho makes an excellent point. You could even remove 'National level' and say 'conference level'. Texas A&M sends as many athletes year-in, year-out to NCAA's as any school in the country -- and across a significant amount of event areas, which most schools don't do. This staff does an excellent job at getting the most out of what their athletes give them.

Who is blaming solely the coaches ? Certainly not me.
What excellent point did Bubortho made? The athletes who have left did not score at NCAA? But why is the question. That says a lot of the thinking on this board. I rest my case.

Look at the top 10 picks in any given year in the NFL or NBA draft. Do they all pan out? You're basically demanding the same answer as to why not. There are a multitude of reasons why those players don't pan out and we don't always know the reason why.

And again, the Ags do have a lot of kids that ARE getting it done. They were one officials call (Bobby Grant) away from having both teams in the top four at the NCAA Championships. That's a pretty solid year.

New addition to team Eric Casarez a freshman distance runner transfer from University of Oklahoma.

Mile - 4.13
1500m - 3.55
5000m - 14.38

Read on another thread that we have hired sprint and hurdles coach Brandon Han from Floriday State. I've tried to read the various threads to make sure I haven't missed something, but will he coach men and women or just the women? There was earlier conjecture about "Boogie" Johnson coming here so I am a bit confused if that happened and this is a second hire on women's side or he will coach both. Thanks in advance for a bit of clarity here!

I would assume he coaches the women's sprinters and all the hurdlers, like he did at Florida State (and Vince Anderson before him). His job was the only one open so the staff is now complete.

Thanks! Appreciate the help.

Men's Cross Country Roster

Alexander, Levi
Arcila, Juan
Bishop, Jon
Blaine, Johnathon
Casarez, Eric
Colonna, Colton
Duplessis, Landon
Gonzales, Raymond
Grant, Brady
Harris, Kyle
Hoffpauir, Gavin
Holt, Bobby
Jett, Jackson
McPhail, Wes
O'Brien, Michael
Potter, Joel
Preston, Brandt
Radtke, Teddy
Seagraves, Zephyr
Tillman, Harrison

Women's Cross Country Roster

Arriaza, Olivia
Barrientos, Lauryn
Bernardo, Rachel
Black, Julia
Bonta, Rebecca
Cerda, Catalina
Chastain, Emily
Driscoll, Ashley
Fairchild, Laura
Fish, Carrie
Hopper, Megan
Hutcherson, Ashton
Janssen, Michala
McCollum, Emily
Michals, Morgan
Myers, Michelle
Nelsen, Dierdre
Pia, Sarah
Plain, Grace
Purifoy, Kylie
Rodriguez, Mary Grace
Santoro, Abbey
Spitz, Audrey
Warren, Kelsie

We really need to move to only International measurements. And get used to it.
That will eventually happen one of these centuries.

Previewing the men's sprint and hurdle group this year based on who is presently on campus and enrolled. As usual we may add a couple of transfers in January. Great potential with the sprint group which is generally a young group. We should have a good 4x100 relay team this year. The hurdle group offers lots of potential scorers.
Below are the stats for the enrolled sprint and hurdle athletes on the men's team

Sprints
Jace Comick (senior)
60m 6.75
100m 10.30
200m 20.75

Lance Broome (freshman)
60m 6.99
100m 10.27
200m 20.69

Ryan Martin (freshman)
60m 6.80
100m 10.26
200m 21.61

Jake Lanier (sophomore)
200m 20.99

Marcellus Boykin (sophomore)
100m - 10.79
200m - 21.61

Patrick Johnson (Freshman)
200m 21.41

Bryce Deadmon (senior)
200m 21.38
400m 45.18

Kyree Johnson (junior)
200m 21.38
400m 45.92

Jamal Walton (Redshirt freshman)
100m 10.42
200m 20.57
400m 44.99

Chris Ford (freshman)
400m 47.07

Hurdles
Tyler Guillory (senior)
60m hurdle 7.96
110m hurdle 13.91

Andre Turay (freshman)
60m hurdle 7.74
110m hurdle 13.58
300m hurdle 38.06

Quentin Zapata (freshman)
60m hurdle 8.34
110m hurdle 13.84
300m hurdle 39.89

Infinite Tucker (senior)
400m hurdle 49.38
400m 47.89

Dewitt Thomas (senior)
400m hurdle 49.38
400m 47.89

Tyler Hart (senior)
400m hurdle 51.18
400m 48.63

Thomas Burns (sophomore transfer from Miami)
400m hurdle 50.62
400m 47.27

MidTnAg said:

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We really need to move to only International measurements. And get used to it.
That will eventually happen one of these centuries.

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Here, here

Didn't realized both Virginia Kerley and Gabrielle McDonald also transferred to Texas Tech.
They are listed on the Texas Tech 2019-2020 roster

https://texastech.com/roster.aspx?path=track

This is essentially a mass exodus of some pretty young talent that would/should have contributed mightily the next few years. Disappointing to see.