AUSTIN — Hitting new heights means garnering honors, just as the Texas track and field teams did with their showing at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
In front of a roaring home crowd numerous Longhorns showed they belonged among the elite as the men’s team took 9th overall and the women placed 10th at the championships held at Mike A. Myers Stadium June 5-8.
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A total of 19 student-athletes from track & field earned All-American honors with 10 on the women’s side and five for the men’s squad.
Photo Gallery: 2019 NCAA T&F Championships-Texas Men 9th Place and Women 10th Place
Teahna Daniels’ inspired showing earned her three different first team All-America runs with top eight finishes in the 100m, 200m and as part of the 4×100 relay as the senior wound up with six first team honors in her Longhorn career.
Ashtin Zamzow’s school-history-setting performance also earned her honors as she became the first Texas heptathlete to capture the national title in program history. Her point total of 6,222 was the ninth-highest by a collegian and it marked the second time in track & field history that an athlete won the heptathlon on their home track.
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Ashtin Zamzow 2019 National Champion Outdoor T&F Heptathlon
Ten different female athletes had finishes in the top 24 to earn their way onto the All-American honor sheet.
On the men’s side, five performances made it to the first team which was the most since 2015. Tripp Piperi won the national title in shot put to earn his second career first team honor after his showing last season.
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Piperi nabs shot put national championship
Four more Horns made it for the first time ever — Jonathan Jones in the 400m, Micaiah Harris in the 200m, O’Brien Wasome in the triple jump and Alex Rogers in the steeplechase.
Texas men take ninth at NCAA Track & Field Championships
The full list of Horns earning honors are:
Men
Trevor Danielson (Second – Javelin)
Micaiah Harris (First – 200m)
Jonathan Jones (First – 400m)
Steffin McCarter (Second – Long jump)
Tripp Piperi (First – Shot put)
John Rice (Honorable mention – Steeplechase)
Alex Rogers (First – Steeplechase)
O’Brien Wasome (First – Triple Jump)
Sam Worley (Second – 1500m)
Women
Mariam Abdul-Rashid (Second – 4×400)
Teahna Daniels (First – 100m, 200m, 4×100)
Serenity Douglas (First – 400m, 4×100; Second – 4×400)
Sophia Falco (Honorable mention – Long jump)
Kynnedy Flannel (Second – 200m, 4×400)
Zola Golden (First – 400m; Honorable mention – 4×400)
Anna McDonald (Honorable mention – Steeplechase)
Kennedy Simon (First – 4×100; Second 4×400)
Georgia Wahl (Honorable mention – Triple jump)
Ashtin Zamzow (First – Heptathlon)
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