Kansas Track & Field Prepared for Three Meets This Weekend

Friday, April 3

Baton Rouge, LA

University of Kansas

Battle on the Bayou

Photo by: Jordyn Pennington/Kansas Athletics

Kansas Track & Field Prepared for Three Meets This Weekend

4/2/2026 1:16:00 PM | Track & Field

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LAWRENCE, Kan. - The Kansas track & field team is scheduled for three meets this weekend from April 3-4. The majority of the team will travel to Baton Rouge, LA. for the Battle on the Bayou.

Kansas will have a split squad this weekend with Jayhawks participating in three meets across the country. A handful of Kansas runners will travel to California to compete in the Mike Fanelli Track Classic and Stanford Invitational, while most of the athletes will compete in the Battle on the Bayou hosted by LSU.

"At all the meets this weekend, it will be a great opportunity to go up against some high level competition and hopefully achieve some top marks to qualify for regionals," Kansas head coach Stanley Redwine said. "The high quality of the meets will be a great benefit to us, as the expectation as a program is that we should be competing at that elite level. It'll hopefully push us to compete at our best and achieve some of those regional marks."

In USTFCCCA's first checkpoint rankings, the men's team was ranked 62nd in the country and seventh in the Big 12, while the women's team was ranked 36th in the country and ninth in the Big 12.

Battle on the Bayou

Kansas Track & Field will have athletes competing on Friday and Saturday, going up against some of the top schools in the country. The meet will consist of LSU (ranked No. 1 on both the men's and women's side), Georgia (11/4), Texas A&M (6/7), Ole Miss (5/33), Minnesota (3/29), Oklahoma (19/26), Missouri (47/42), Mississippi State (44/50), UCLA (61/25), Indiana (196/106) and North Dakota State.

The meet is scheduled to begin on Friday at 10:30 a.m. with the women's hammer throw. Track events are scheduled to begin at 5:30 p.m. with the women's 400 meter hurdles. Friday's field events will include the hammer throw, pole vault, javelin throw and long jump, concluding with the men's pole vault at 5 p.m.

Friday's track events will be the 400 meter hurdles, 200 meter dash, 3,000 meter steeplechase, 1,500 meter run and 5,000 meter run, with the men's 5K wrapping up the day at 7:55 p.m.

Events will continue on Saturday, with the women's discus and men's shot put kicking things off at 10:30 a.m. The field events will continue with the women's high jump at 11 a.m. and both triple jumps at 12 p.m. The men's discus, women's shot put and men's high jump will wrap up the field events, all beginning at 1 p.m.

The track events on Saturday will begin at 12 p.m. with the women's 4x100 meter relay. The 4x100 meter relays, 800 meter runs, 100 meter hurdles, 110 meter hurdles, 400 meter runs and 100 meter dashes will all be run. The 4x400 meter relay will wrap up the meet, with the women's beginning around 2:20 p.m. and the men's starting at 2:35 p.m.

The meet will be World Athletics and USATF sanctioned. A full schedule can be found here. More meet information, including start lists, and a link to live results will be posted on lsusports.net or by following this link.

Mike Fanelli Track Classic

A group of Kansas distance runners will travel to San Francisco State University for the Mike Fanelli Track Classic on Friday, April 3rd.

Irine Jepkirui and Kaitlyn Swartz will kick off the meet in the women's 5,000 meter run beginning at 8:30 a.m. PT. Naomi Hunter is also scheduled to compete in the second heat of the women's 5,000 meter run following the conclusion of the first.

Sophomore Mia Murray is set to compete in the women's 3,000 meter steeplechase which is set to begin around 1:40 pm. PT. Redshirt freshman Andrew Schumacher is also scheduled to run in the men's 3,000 meter steeplechase, beginning around 2:30 p.m. PT.

Blake Wohler will compete for the Jayhawks in either the 5,000 or 10,000 meter run.

Live results for the Mike Fanelli Track Classic can be found here. A full schedule of the events can be found here or at mikefanellitrackclassic.com, where more meet information is also available.

Stanford Invitational

Kansas will also head to Stanford, CA. to compete in the Stanford Invitational on Friday.

Sawyer Schmidt is scheduled as the first Jayhawk competitor in the third section of the men's 3,000 meter steeplechase at 5:43 p.m. PT.

Freshman Reagan Kibet will run in section two of the men's 5,000 meter run, beginning around 7:56 p.m. Stephen Maroro will compete in the men's 10,000 meter run invitational at 9:25 p.m. PT while Barnabas Ndiwa will run in the men's 10,000 meters open at 10:35 p.m. PT.

A full schedule of events can be found here. Live results will be posted via Record Timing here with heat sheets available here. More meet information is available at gostanford.com or by clicking here.

HOW TO FOLLOW ALONG

Fans can stay current with the events by following the official Kansas Track & Field and Cross Country X or Instagram account @kansastfxc. Final results and a meet recap will be posted at the conclusion of the meets on kuathletics.com.