February 21, 2013

Golden Eagles to compete in OVC Indoor Championships this weekend

CHARLESTON, Ill. -- The Tennessee Tech women's track & field team will compete in the 2013 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Eastern Illinois University.

Link to the meet webpage

CHARLESTON, Ill. -- The Tennessee Tech women's track & field team will compete in the 2013 Ohio Valley Conference Indoor Championships, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Eastern Illinois University.

Golden Eagle coach Tony Cox will take a roster of 17 student-athletes to the meet, which begins Friday at 1:30 p.m., with the long jump. The schedule of events for Saturday starts at 9:30 a.m., with the shot put, and the meet is scheduled to conclude at approximately 2:30 p.m. Saturday.

A total of 10 women's teams will compete, while six schools will send men's teams to the event. The meet will be held in Lantz Fieldhouse on the EIU campus.

Click here to view PDF of the schedule of events

Based on performances during the indoor season, Tech's best chances for scoring points at the meet rest in the efforts of Katie Lowery in the pole vault, Chelsea Mills (in photo) in the long jump and triple jump, and Rebecca Cline in the 3,000- and 5,000-meter races.

A senior from Andersonville, Tenn., Lowery broke her own school record earlier this year in the pole vault, clearing the bar at 10 feet, 4 inches in a meet at Austin Peay three weeks ago.

Mills is a freshman from Chattanooga, and has narrowly missed the school record in both the long jump and the triple jump this season.

Cline is a junior distance runner from Spring Hill, Tenn., and has enjoyed a breakout year this indoor season.

Two other Golden Eagles who could find success are senior Madison Borden in the shot put and senior distance runner Beth Miller.

Event results will be posted during the meet by Eastern Illinois at the meet website (click here). Meet results will be posted at the end of each day on TTUsports.com. Fans will also be able to watch a live video webstream from the meet on the OVC Digital Network.