MOBILE, Ala. – The University of South Alabama men's and women's outdoor track and field teams will wrap up the 2019 regular-season schedule with a two-day trip to Hattiesburg, Miss., for the Southern Miss Open.

Fifty-one Jaguars will participate in the season finale Friday and Saturday. 

MEET INFORMATION
Event: Southern Miss Open
Date: April 26-27
Host: Southern Miss
Site: Marshall Bell Track
Live Results

FIELD (20)
Alcorn State, Belhaven, Dillard, Grambling, Hinds CC, Jackson State, Jarvis Christian College, ULM, Meridian CC, Mississippi College, Mississippi State, Mobile, Southeastern Louisiana, South Alabama, Southern Arkansas, Southern Miss, Southern-New Orleans, Tulane, William Carey, Xavier 

NOTES
-Sophomore Carolien Millenaar ran the War Eagle Invitational 1,500m in 4:33.84, the third-fastest time in the Sun Belt this year and the sixth-fastest time in Jaguar program history.  
-Emilie Berge shattered the league heptathlon record, scoring 5,718 points at the 92nd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays. The point total ranks fourth in the nation. Her 1.79m (5-10.50) high jump mark from the South Alabama Invitational tied for 21st in the NCAA Division I standings and leads the conference. 
-Sean Collins cleared 5.40m (17-08.50) in the War Eagle Invitational pole vault last weekend; it was the senior's best performance since the 2018 War Eagle Invitational, where he recorded a 5.42m (17-09.25) mark. The height is second in the Sun Belt standings and is among the top 15 in the NCAA this season. 
-Christian Ellis holds the 20th-longest triple jump mark in the nation, a 15.75m (51-08.25) effort from the Florida Relays that broke a 35-year-old USA school record and tops the conference performance list this year.
-Olivia Swan recorded her best high jump mark of the year, 1.78m (5-10.00), at Samford's Alabama Track Challenge to tie for 27th nationally and take third place in the Sun Belt rankings.
-Junior Autavia Fluker's 16.22m (53-02.75) shot put mark from the Triton Invitational is tied for 30th in the NCAA. She broke her own school record with the performance and leads the fellow Jaguar Angeline Smit by 1.62m (5-03.75) in the conference standings.
-Michaela Preachuk (hammer throw) and Hanna-Mai Vaikla (javelin) hold the top marks in the Sun Belt and are among the top 25 in the NCAA East Region in their respective events.

QUOTES FROM COACH BRUESKE
On practice this week: "Practice has been going well. Considering that we've got exams coming up, I think things have been going pretty well. We've just got to make sure we're managing our time and student-athletes are getting their rest." 

On closing the regular season and the push to qualify for the NCAA East Region Preliminary Round: "We've got two more meets—Southern Miss and the Sun Belt Conference meet—for athletes to qualify for regionals. Southern Miss will be a good meet. Hopefully the weather cooperates and we can go out there and have a good regular-season finale before we get going for the conference meet." 

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