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Javelina Invitational
Javelina Stadium at Texas A&M-Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas
Saturday, April 11, 2008; 1:30 p.m.

About the Meet
The No. 13 ranked Texas women's track and field squad will send a limited number of athletes to the Javelina Invitational which takes place on Saturday, April 11 at the host site, Texas A&M-Kingsville in Kingsville, Texas ... Texas A&M-Kingsville, a NCAA Division II university which competes in the Lone Star Conference, is hosting a field comprised of athletes from UT, UT-Pan American, UT-San Antonio and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi ... UT is represented only by the women's track squad, while the other schools will field both men's and women's teams.

Both the field events and the running events start at 1:30 p.m. Central, with the last running event scheduled for 4:30 p.m ... Tickets are $3 for adults and $1 for youth under the age of 18, and are available at the gate.

Texas Competitors
A total of 16 members of the Longhorns track and field squad will be competing Saturday ... The Longhorns will be led by a quartet of performers at the one-day meet - senior pole vaulter Ashley Laughlin, senior sprinter and hurdler Alandra Sherman, sophomore thrower Jordyn Brown and freshman jumper Chantel Malone .

Sherman (Houston, Texas/Eisenhower HS) will compete in the 100 and 200 meter runs and the 100 meter hurdles ... She is coming off a season-best time in the 100-meter hurdles (13.72) which she posted on April 4 during the Texas Relays ... Malone posted a career-best 19 feet, 1.25 inches (5.82m) in the Texas Relays long jump, placing seventh in that event on April 4.

Second-year performer Brown (Mesquite, Texas/Mesquite HS) had earned NCAA Midwest Region qualification in the shot put when she landed a toss of 54 feet, 3.25 inches (16.54m) for first place at the Rice Bayou Classic on March 29 ... Brown finished in the top 10 in two of her three events (discus and shot put) at the 2008 Texas Relays held last weekend in Austin ... She was fifth in the A section of the shot put competition (with a NCAA regional qualifying mark of 52-1.25 [15.88m]) and ninth in the discus with a toss of 147-02 (44.86m).

Malone (Tortola, British Virgin Islands), a NCAA regional qualifier with a first-place finish in triple jump (40 feet, 10.25 inches, 12.45m) at that same Bayou Classic meet, also had a strong outing at the Texas Relays ... Malone had a career-best 19-feet, 1.25 inch long jump (5.82m) for seventh-place at the Texas Relays (April 4)... On the final day (April 5), she placed fourth in the A section of the triple jump in a career-best 42-feet, 6.75-inch leap, another NCAA regional qualifying mark.

The Field of Longhorns at the Javelina Invitational
The 16 Longhorns competitors are listed here with their anticipated events: Jordyn Brown (So., shot put, discus, hammer); Jena Cuellar (Fr., 800m); Kendall Fisher (Jr., 400m hurdles); Christina Jackson (Fr., 100m, 200m); Lindsey Kaye (Fr., long jump, triple jump); Lauren Kern (So., 800m); Ashlei King (Fr., 100m hurdles, 400m hurdles); and Ashley Laughlin (Sr., pole vault).

Also: Chantel Malone (Fr., 400m, 200m); Britney Orville RS-So., 400m hurdles, 100m); Anne Phillips (Sr., pole vault); Jennifer Reha (400m hurdles); Kira Robinson (Jr., 100m, 100m hurdles, 200 m); Kristen Schulz (Fr., 400m hurdles, high jump); Alandra Sherman (Sr., 100m, 200m, 100m hurdles); and Megan Vasquez (Fr., 1500m).

Up Next
Texas will compete at their home track for the final time this year next Saturday, April 19 when UT hosts the Texas Twilight meet at the Mike A. Myers Stadium in Austin ... The meet is a men's and women's competition with the field events beginning at 2 p.m. and the running events scheduled to start at 4:30 p.m. Central.