Track resumes indoor season at East Tennessee this weekend
The indoor track season resumes this weekend for Tennessee Tech when coach Tony Cox takes a squad of 17 runners, jumpers and throwers to the East Tennessee State Invitational, Friday and Saturday.
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech track & field team
returns to action after more than a month layoff when coach Tony
Cox takes a squad of 18 runners, jumpers and throwers to Johnson
City, Tenn., to compete Friday and Saturday.
Tech will be among more th 60 college teams at in the
35th annual Niswonger Foundation Track and Field Invitational
inside the ETSU/MSHA Athletics Center on the David E. Walker Track
and Gentry Field.
The Tech contingent will include 17 women alopng with Matt Bishop
from the men's cross country team. Tech's top distance runner,
Bishop will run the 5,000 meter race on Saturday morning.
Leaders to watch among the women representing Tech will include
senior Madison Borden (pictured above right) in the shot put.
Borden set a personal best at the Southern Illinois meet in
December with a toss of 39 feet, 7 inches, which was the best of
her career, either inside or outside. She looks to continue what
promises to be a successful final year.
Also looking for continued success will be senior Katie Lowery and
freshman Landry Loving.
Lowery will take another try at eclipsing her own school record in
the pole vault, a mark she tied in December at Southern Illinois
when she cleared the bar at 10 feet. Loving will be competing in
the 800-meter race in her first college track meet.
In addition to Borden, Tech had three other personal-best marks at
Southern Illinois as sophomore Kendale Caldwell clocked a PR of 2:40.48 in the
800-meter run, junior Erin
Keyes clearing the bar at a quarter-inch better than five feet
in the high jump, and senior Lacy
Yslas notched an indoor personal best of 38 feet, 6.25 inches
in the shot put.
"Hopefully the layoff over Christmas will not hurt us too much,"
Cox said. "The sprinters, jumpers, and throwers did a meet before
Christmas, so they know how they did there and what they needed to
work on over the break. The distance runners train all the time
anyway, and should be ready for this opening meet. We take few
breaks during the year, but in college there is really no
'off-season'."
The two-day meet begins Friday morning at 10 a.m. ET with the
prelims of the women’s 60m hurdles, the women’s triple
jump finals and the women’s weight throw finals. Opening day
collegiate events end following the men’s and women’s
5K run at 7 p.m.
The meet picks back up on Saturday morning at 8 a.m. ET with
another session of the men’s and women’s 5K. The final
events of the meet are the men’s and women’s 4x400m
relay, which being at 6:30 p.m.
More than 800 student-athletes from more than 60 collegiate teams
will be competing in the meet. Those teams include Anderson
College, Appalachian State, Austin Peay, Benedict College, Bryan
College, Chattanooga, Emory, Gardner-Webb, Georgia Southern,
Georgia State, Kennesaw State, King College, Lee University,
Lipscomb, Mars Hill, MTSU, Milligan, Montreat, Murray State,
Roanoke College, Southern University at New Orleans, Tennessee
Tech, Tennessee Wesleyan, Tusculum, UNC Asheville, USC Upstate,
Western Carolina and Wofford.
Live results will be available throughout the meet at
TimingInc.com. Admission tickets can be purchased at the gate upon
entry. Prices are $10 for both days and $5 for a single day.
