Terry Albritton Memorial Schedule of Events
HONOLULU – The University of Hawai'i women's track and field team will host the Terry Albritton Memorial Meet Friday, Feb. 19 and Saturday, Feb. 20 at Clarence T.C. Ching Field. This year's event has special meaning as two weeks ago, Albritton was inducted into the school's Sports Circle of Honor.
The Albritton Memorial is the third and final full-squad all-comer meet that the team will have hosted during the indoor season in preparation for mainland competition.
The meet is named after the late UH track star who broke the world record in the shot put (71 feet, 8 1/2 inches) at an all-comers meet at Cooke Field while a junior at UH in 1976. Later that year, he won the NCAA title.Albritton enrolled in Stanford in 1973 on a football scholarship and also competed in track, where he was second in the shot put in the Pac-8 in 1974. He transferred to Hawai'i in 1975 and was the NCAA runner-up that year.
When UH dropped the men's track and field program after his world record breaking season, he transferred back to Stanford, where he won the 1977 NCAA shot put title. Following his competitive career, Albritton served as strength coach at UH from 1979-85, and is regarded as a pioneer in plyometrics and other fast-twitch muscle training techniques. Albritton died in Cambodia in 2004 at the age of 50.
The hammer, javelin, and discus events and 10,000-meter run will be held on Friday, Feb. 19 beginning at 3:00 p.m. Saturday's competition begins at 2:00 p.m. and includes all sprints, middle distance, hurdles, relays and the remainder of the field events.
For those interested in competing, entries are to be completed on the day of the competition and will be allowed up to 30 minutes before each event. Registration will be open 30 minutes before the first scheduled field event and two and a half hours before the first scheduled track event.
Other Sunset Series meets include Mini Meet #3 (March 20), Mini Meet #4 (March 27), Mini Meet #5 (April 10), Mini Meet #6 (April 17), and Sunset Finale (April 30-May 1).
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