SAN MARCOS, Texas – Five members of the Texas State track and field program, past and present, will be featured at this year's US Olympic Trials meet in Eugene Oregon, taking place June 21-30.
Daniel Harrold (men's 110m hurdles),
Dominick Yancy (men's 200 meters), T'mond Johnson (men's shot put), Mylana Hearn (women's Triple Jump) and Hope Bender (women's heptathlon), will all compete for a spot on the USA Olympic Team.
In Iceland,
Elisabet Runarsdottir, the NCAA Champion in the women's hammer throw, will compete at the Icelandic U23 Championships on Sunday, June 23 at 12:10 pm in the hammer throw.
Runarsdottir set the Icelandic National record in the hammer throw at the NCAA Championships earlier this month, with her first-place mark of 70.47m/231-2. She goes into the U23 Championship meet ranked first in the event.
Live results for the meet are available
here.
Bobcats Competing at the Olympic Trials
The reigning Sun Belt Men's Track Performer of the Year, Harrold, will compete in the 110m hurdles at the Olympic Trials. He comes into the meet as the 21st ranked hurdler, with a mark of 13.45. He recorded this mark at this year's Sun Belt Conference Championships, where he placed first overall and set the conference meet record.
He will compete in the first round of the hurdles on Monday at 7:05 pm CST and will need to place inside the top 12 of the event to move onto the semi-finals, which takes place Thursday at 7:01 pm CST.
Yancy, the Sun Belt Conference Champion in the men's 200 meters, will compete in the first round of the 200 meters at the Olympic Trials on Thursday, June 27th at 9:01 pm CST.
Going into the meet he is ranked 23rd overall, with a mark of 20.40. He set this mark at the Bobcat Invitational earlier this year, when he set the Texas State school record for the event.
Johnson, who was a member of the Texas State track and field team from 2016-2019, will compete in the shot put at the Olympic Trials. He has the nine-best marks in Texas State history for the shot put and was a six-time SBC gold medalist in the event during his time as a Bobcat.
Heading into the meet he is ranked 10th with a mark of 20.64m and will be featured in the second flight of the event, which takes place Friday at 8:15 pm CST. To move on to the finals for the event, which takes place this Saturday at 8:15 pm CST, he will need to place in the top 12 during the events first round of competition.
In the women's triple jump, Hearn, a Bobcat from 2014-2017, will compete in the first round of the event tomorrow at 8:50 PM CST. She goes into the meet with a mark of 13.81m, which is the fourth-ranked mark heading into the trials. If she can place in the top 12 during the first round, she will compete in the finals on Saturday at 8:20 pm CST.
During her four seasons with Texas State, she competed in the NCAA Outdoor Championships twice and was named to both the All-American second and honorable mention teams. She also holds the fourth-best triple jump in Texas State history with a mark of 42-11.5m.
Bender, Texas State's assistant coach for the jumps/multis, will compete in the women's heptathlon at the Olympic Trials. The heptathlon takes place the June 23-24 and features seven different events throughout the two days of competition.
She sits 11th heading into the meet, with a point total of 6,025 points in the event.
Stream the Olympic Trials Live
- Day 1 June 21st
- Day 2 June 22nd
- Day 3 June 23rd
- Day 4 June 24th
- Day 5 June 27th
- Day 6 June 28th
- Day 7 June 29th
- Day 8 June 30th
Live results for the US Olympic Trials will be available
here for each day of competition.
