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Alexis Jarrett Invitational
Mizzou Opens 2025 With Alexis Jarrett Invitational
1/10/2025 10:00:00 AM | Track & Field
The invite marks Mizzou's first home competition since 2020.
COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri Track and Field continues its 2025 indoor campaign with the Alexis Jarrett Invitational on Saturday, Jan. 11 beginning at 9 a.m. inside the newly refurbished Hearnes Center Fieldhouse, which hosts its first event since the Missouri Collegiate Challenge on Feb. 22, 2020.
INSIDE THE FIELDHOUSE
Arkansas State, Central Methodist, Columbia College, Kansas City, Oral Roberts, and SIU Edwardsville are slated to join the Tigers at the meet. The Alexis Jarrett Invitational represents the first of six consecutive events hosted by Missouri this indoor season, the most dates Hearnes Center Fieldhouse has hosted since 1985.
The venue received updates on its 200-meter track with an eight-lane sprint straightaway and multiple runways for pole vault and horizontal jumps. The facility has hosted indoor track and field events since its conception in 1972, including the 1991 Big Eight Indoor Track & Field Championship.
LAST TIME OUT
Sophomore distance runner Rahel Broemmel (Sonsbeck, Germany) looks to continue her run of form after entering MU's record book at the Danville Opener in Boston to kick off the indoor season in December. The Dortmund, Germany native clocked a 16:09.31 in the 5,000-meter, which ranks fourth in program history and is the fastest clip by a Tiger since 2018. Broemmel most recently earned All-Southeastern Conference Second-Team honors during the 2024 cross country season.
ALL-AMERICAN RETURNEES
Alicia Burnett (St. Louis, Mo.) capped off her breakout 2024 indoor campaign with an All-American Second Team finish at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. The rising senior notched a 12th-place result in the women's 60m with a 7.29 sprint at The TRACK at New Balance in Boston, Massachusetts.
With her result, Burnett became the first Mizzou sprinter (male or female, indoor or outdoor) to claim an All-American position at the NCAA Championships since Markesh Woodson and Kahmari Montgomery secured placements in the 100m and 400m, respectively, at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Burnett enjoyed one of the finest seasons by a Tiger sprinter in the last decade and looks to cap off her collegiate career in impressive fashion. She qualified for the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at the DeLoss Dodds Invitational on Feb. 2 with a sprint of 7.21 in the women's 60m. The mark shattered the previous program record of 7.31 held by LaQuisha Jackson for nine years.
Throughout the 2024 indoor campaign, Burnett hit five runs in the 60m, breaking Jackson's old record. She is in the program's top-10 list in every sprints event—she is first in the women's 60m, fourth in the women's 200m, and ranks sixth in the women's 400m.
Sterling Scott (Starkville, Miss.) closed his first indoor season with an All-America Second Team placement in the men's triple jump. He scored an 11th-place result with a 15.50m (50-10.25) leap to earn the best finish of any freshman triple jumper at The TRACK at New Balance in Boston, Massachusetts.
In his debut year, Scott became the first Mizzou freshman All-American (male or female, indoor or outdoor) since Mirieli Santos and Roberto Vilches each earned the status at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. With his All-America placement, the Tigers have yielded an All-American in the triple jump for a seventh consecutive year.
Scott booked his spot in the NCAA Championships meet with a bronze-medal winning jump of 16.14m (52-11.5) on his final attempt at the SEC Indoor Championship.
Scott also finished fifth place in the triple jump final at the World Athletics U20 Championships, clearing 16.09m (52-9.36) on Aug. 29, 2024, in Lima, Peru. He set a career best in the event finishing second during the qualifying round. Scott then made the finals after clearing 16.29m (53-5.25) to move into third in the program's outdoor triple jump record book.
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