CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (theACC.com) – The 2019 Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships are set for Thursday through Saturday at Lannigan Field on the campus of the University of Virginia.
This marks the seventh year that Virginia will serve as the host school for the event and the first time since 2012.
ACC Network Extra will again stream three hours of live action on the event’s first night (Thursday, May 9), followed by more coverage on Friday and Saturday evenings. Sean Kenney returns to handle play-by-play, while former U.S. Olympic standout Dan O’Brien will serve as analyst. The pair will be joined by distance race analyst David Mitchell and Melanie Newman as sideline reporter.
ACC Network Extra will bring live action Thursday from 6 until 9 p.m. Friday’s live coverage will air from 6 p.m. until 8:30 p.m., followed by Saturday’s finals from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m.
Links to each day’s livestream:
Other links of interest:
Heat Sheet:
https://theacc.co/ACCHeatSheets
Schedule of Events:
https://theacc.co/otf19sched
Live Results:
https://theacc.co/otf19results
Competition begins Thursday at 12:30 p.m. with the opening men’s decathlon events, and women’s heptathlon competition is set to begin at 2 p.m. Finals are scheduled in the women’s hammer throw (2 p.m.), men’s javelin (5 p.m.), women’s long jump (6 p.m.), men’s long jump (6 p.m.) and women’s javelin (7:30 p.m.).
Prelims are set for early Thursday evening in several running events, followed by the women’s 10,000-meter final at 7:50 p.m. and the men’s 10,000 at 8:30.
A full slate of events and preliminaries continues Friday and Saturday, with finals in most of the running events wrapping up the Championships on Saturday evening.
The Florida State men and Miami women enter this year’s ACC Outdoor Championships as defending champions. Florida State and Virginia Tech shared the men’s 2019 ACC Indoor Championship title at February’s conference meet at Blacksburg, Virginia, while Miami took home the women’s crown.
Two student-athletes will enter this week’s Outdoor Championship having set conference records during the regular season. Virginia junior Jordan Scott – the NCAA indoor champion in the men’s triple jump – set a new ACC outdoor record in the event when he covered 17.07 meters (56-0) at the Virginia Challenge on April 19. Syracuse distance runner Iliass Aouani clocked an ACC record time of 28:25.36 in the 10,000 meters at the Stanford Invitational on April 29.
Scott is one of 15 ACC student-athletes participating in this year’s Championship – five men and 10 women – who currently rank among the nation’s top five in their respective events. Five competitors hold a combined six No. 2 national rankings – Virginia’s Hilmar Jonsson (men’s hammer), Syracuse’s Paige Stoner (women’s 5,000 and 10,000 meters), Miami’s Michelle Atherley (women’s heptathlon), North Carolina’s Nicole Greene (women’s high jump) and Notre Dame’s Jessica Harris (women’s 1,500 meters).
Atherley took home the gold medal in the pentathlon at this year’s NCAA Indoor Championship, and Greene won the 2018 NCAA women’s indoor high jump championship. Stoner also ranks 10th in the 3000-meter steeplechase in pair of No. 2 national rankings.
North Carolina has won a conference-best 14 ACC Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Championships, ahead of Clemson’s seven and Virginia’s five. On the men’s side, Florida State leads with 12 team titles, followed by Clemson with 11.
Florida State’s Bob Braman leads all active coaches with 10 ACC men’s outdoor championships. NC State’s Rollie Geiger owns five, and Virginia Tech’s Dave Cianelli has claimed three.
Braman, Cianelli and Miami’s Amy Deem lead active ACC women’s coaches with three league outdoor titles each. Clemson’s Mark Elliott owns one title.
For more information on the 2019 ACC Outdoor Track & Field Championships, including a full schedule, please see
http://theacc.com/tournaments/?id=24