Gophers overcome poor weather to break records
Babatunde Jinadu
April 22, 2019
Severe weather put a premature end to the first day of the Duke Invitational track and field meet on Friday, but it wasn’t enough to stop the Gophers from taking six titles on day two at Morris Williams Track and Field Stadium. The meet’s events were consolidated to ensure that the two-day meet coul...
Minnesota track and field program enters a new era
Babatunde Jinadu
April 18, 2019
The 2018-19 season has brought several changes for the track and field program at the University of Minnesota. It started when former women’s team head coach Matt Bingle was named director of men's and women's track and field and cross country at the University of Minnesota. According to Bingle, Minne...
Track and field team adjusts to cancellation of first home meet
Babatunde Jinadu
April 15, 2019
The Minnesota track and field team’s home opener was canceled on Saturday due to inclement weather. The weather postponed what was to be Minnesota's first outdoor home meet in a decade. The team was without a stadium before the University of Minnesota Track and Field Stadium opened in September 2018.&...
Freshman distance runner represents Minnesota on USA national team
Babatunde Jinadu
April 4, 2019
Khalid Hussein, a freshman on the Gophers men’s track and field team, recently represented the United States at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Denmark. “It was a cool experience, seeing how they treat the competition and how they prepare. Not just the day of, or the day before, but three...
Nayoka Clunis to represent Jamaica at Athletics World Cup
Drew Cove
July 11, 2018
A Minnesota student-athlete will go to Europe to represent her country. Nayoka Clunis, a member of the women's track and field team for Minnesota, will compete at the first-ever Athletics World Cup in London this weekend. Clunis will participate in the hammer throw event at the tournament and represent he...
Obsa Ali is a national champion in the 3,000 meter steeplechase
David Mullen
June 20, 2018
It had been 15 years, but Minnesota has another mens' outdoor track and field national champion. Redshirt junior Obsa Ali became the first outdoor national champion for the Gophers men's track and field team since 2003 earlier this month. Ali ran the 3,000 meter steeplechase on June 8, breaking the schoo...
Women’s track and field finishes first at Big Ten
Drew Cove
May 14, 2018
The Gophers did something they had never accomplished before in women's track and field. No. 11 Minnesota emerged as the overall team champion in both the indoor and outdoor Big Ten tournament on Sunday in Bloomington, Indiana. The Gophers finished with 134 points, beating second-place Purdue by two po...
Minnesota takes two titles in Arkansas
Kaleb Medhanie
April 30, 2018
Sammie Houston said a victory in the national relays gives him confidence going forward. He'll need that confidence as Minnesota heads to the postseason. The Gophers competed in the National Relays Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Friday and Saturday, with just one meet until the Big Ten O...
Sabin excels on her birthday; Eastman highlights Drake Relays
Kaleb Medhanie
April 30, 2018
The Gophers broke records again this weekend. This time, it was in Louisville on an athlete's birthday. No. 10 Minnesota competed in the Louisville Lenny Lyles and Clark Wood Invite in Louisville, Kentucky on Friday and Saturday, where it broke two program records and won seven titles. On Kiley Sabin’s ...
Gophers’ Temi Ogunrinde stays busy with track and field, campus groups
Kaleb Medhanie
April 26, 2018
Redshirt junior Temi Ogunrinde is the Gophers' all-time leader in the hammer throw, but track and field is just one part of her life on Minnesota's campus. Ogunrinde won the hammer throw at the Beach Invitational on April 19 with a personal record throw of 221 feet, 3 inches. She is also the president...
