Panthers Head To Tennessee For Sea Ray Relays
MILWAUKEE, Wis. (April 10, 2008) - The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee men's track and field team will look to continue its strong start to the 2008 outdoor season when it travels to Knoxville, Tenn., this weekend for the Sea Ray Relays. The Sea Ray Relays actually get started Thursday with the multi-events and continue through Saturday. Milwaukee's hot outdoor start continued last week at the Big Blue Classic in Charleston, Ill. Sophomore Tyler Bucholz won the 200m and ran with a first-place 4x100m relay and second-place 4x400m relay to highlight the weekend. Both relays posted times that are second in school history. Bucholz won the 200m, improving on his personal-record that was already second in school history. He lowered the time, which he had run at the outdoor opener March 29, to 21.39. The 4x100m relay ran a time of 40.87 seconds, just 0.19 seconds off the record. It was the second-straight meet UWM posted the second-best time in this event. In the 4x400m relay, the quartet went 3:11.95, just 0.83 seconds off the Panther standard. Milwaukee has a pair of athletes that are quietly enjoying strong seasons. Adams runs the same events as Bucholz and gives Milwaukee a strong combination in the 100m, 200m and 400m events. He capped the indoor campaign by eclipsing the school and league 400m record alongside Bucholz, but finishing second (47.74). He has picked up where he left off with the fourth-best 400m time in school history (48.18) at the Spring Classic March. Then last weekend, he cracked UWM's all-time top-10 in the 100m with a time of 10.98 in the preliminaries (10th all-time) and the 200m with a time of 21.96 (8th). Sophomore Josh Zill, meanwhile, adds strong depth to a pair of events. So far this outdoor season, he has PR'd in both the 110m hurdles and triple jump. And, last weekend, he dropped 0.13 seconds off his best hurdle time and is 10th all-time at 15.08. He also competed in the triple jump, leaping 47-6 ¼ to take fourth and post the seventh-best distance in school history. Zill has finished in the top five of both events at each of the first two meets this season alongside perennial league favorites in either event in junior Adam Schleis (hurdles) and seniors Justin Bohler (hurdles) and Darren Cole (triple jump).
Bucholz has undoubtedly been the story for Milwaukee through the first two weeks of the outdoor season. In addition to his performance last weekend at the Big Blue Classic, he has also already broken the school outdoor 400m record with a time of 47.93 he ran at the Spring Classic. Through two meets, he has run four races and won the 200m twice, taken second in the 400m once and third in one 100m race. After the Sea Ray Relays, the Panthers continue their outdoor season at the Dave Rankin Invitational, April 18, in West Lafayette, Ind. |
