The Houston track & field team went for gold this past weekend in its Big 12 Conference Indoor Championship debut at the Sports Performance Center in Lubbock.
Houston’s winning weekend began on Friday when senior Christyan Sampy cleared 5.53 meters in the men’s pole vault to earn second place on the podium, bringing UH its first Big 12 finals silver medal in school history.
Junior Grant Leveque was a force in the heptathlon, putting up four new personal bests to grab the lead with 3,313 points going into Saturday’s activities.
Leveque snatched first place finishes in the 60-meter running a 6.