EUGENE, Ore. – The No. 4/7 Texas Track and Field team opened the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Championships with men's competition at historic Hayward Field on Wednesday. Texas scored 12 points in the long jump and shot put competitions to sit in fourth after the meet's opening day.
Tripp Piperi was Texas' biggest scorer of the day, tallying eight points behind a second-place effort in the shot put. Piperi, the 2019 NCAA Outdoor champion, threw the shot a season-best 20.71m/67-11.5 to cap an incredible comeback from injury. The Woodlands, Texas native missed two months of action due to an ankle injury he suffered prior to the NCAA Indoor Championships, and returned to competition just one month ago at the Big 12 Championships in Manhattan, Kan.