411OnTheForty: O’Brien Wasome named USTFCCCA Male Athlete of the Week
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas men's track and field senior jumper O'Brien Wasome etched his name into the program record books Tuesday, becoming the first male UT athlete to earn the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's (USTFCCCA) Male Athlete of the Week award during the outdoor season.
Wasome broke a 33-year program record in the triple jump at the Longhorn Invitational this past weekend, leaping 17.05 meters / 55 feet, 11.25 inches (+0.5). He is one of just two Big 12 men to jump at least 17 meters outdoors since 2011, according to the Track & Field Results Reporting System (TFRRS) Outdoor Performance Lists.
It had been exactly 372 days since Wasome had last competed; he won the horizontal jump titles at the 2020 Big 12 Indoor Championships.
The Texas women's team is ranked No. 3 and the men's team No. 10 in this week's USTFCCCA rankings they prepare for the NCAA Indoor Championships March 11-13 in Fayetteville, Ark.
