Penultimate Weekend of Regular Season

Friday, May 1

Stanford, CA

All Day

University of Oregon

Payton Jordan Invitational

Tewalt, Burke at Stanford Invitational (April 3)

04/30/26 | Track and Field

The Ducks are set to compete in three meets over the next two days.

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon track and field team begins a busy month of May with a trio of meets this weekend beginning Friday with competition at the Payton Jordan Invitational at Stanford and the OSU High Performance meet in Corvallis. The Ducks are also sending their sprints, jumps and throws groups to Tucson, Ariz., for Saturday's Desert Heat Classic.

After becoming the No. 4-6 UO performers at 10,000 meters in earlier this season, the distance trio of Evan Bishop, Evan Burke and Luke Tewalt will run in the invitational section of the 5,000 (9:39 p.m.) at the Payton Jordan meet. Connor Burns is also entered in what will be his outdoor debut for Oregon.

Tewalt has the fastest lifetime best of the group with a 13:28.18 from last season at Wake Forest.

The UO women also have Stanford entries Friday night with Dalia Frias and Ella Thorsett running in the fast section of the 5,000 meters. It will be their first go at the distance this season after competing over 1500 meters at the Oregon Team Invitational.

Closer to home, the Ducks have Ben Greene and Landen LeBlond entered in invitational sections of the men's and women's 1500 meters at the OSU High Performance. The men's race is scheduled for Friday at 7:30 p.m. followed directly by the women.

Friday's Full Schedule
~12:30 p.m. - OSUHP | Discus (w): Taylor Wiseman
4:15 p.m. - OSUHP | 800 Meters (m): Will Heslam
7:30 p.m. - OSUHP | 1500 Meters (m): Ben Greene
7:40 p.m. - OSUHP | 1500 Meters (w): Landen LeBlond
9:19 p.m. - Payton Jordan | 5,000 Meters (w): Dalia Frias, Ella Thorsett
9:39 p.m. - Payton Jordan | 5,000 Meters (m): Evan Bishop, Evan Burke, Connor Burns, Luke Tewalt

Between their sprints, jumps and throws groups, six of the Ducks' top-10 national performers will be in action Saturday in Arizona. Ben Smith (20.39m/66-10.75) enters the weekend ranked No. 2 in the NCAA in the shot put coupled with Daniel Thrana fifth in the javelin with this mark of 78.32m/256-11 from the Oregon Team Invitational.

On the track, Kai Graves-Blanks carries a lifetime best of 13.42 in the 110-meter hurdles and currently ranks seventh in the NCAA. He is also part of the Ducks' 4x100 relay that clocked a season-best 38.94 during the Oregon Team Invitational, good for the eighth-fastest school—Graves-Blanks, PJ Ize-Iyamu, Grant Valley, Jaelon Barbarin—nationally.

New school-record holder Emily Fitzsimmons (4.48m/14-8.25) is currently 10^th in the NCAA in the pole vault. Cassandra Atkins, ninth nationally in the triple jump, will take on the long jump in Tucson along with NCAA indoor pentathlon champion Liisa-Maria Lusti.

Elliott Cook is set to make this outdoor season debut Saturday in Corvallis. He is entered in the invite section of the 800 meters with Greene and Will Heslam. That race is scheduled for 2:15 p.m.

Up Next: Oregon Twilight, May 8 at Hayward Field

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