Schedule of Events (.pdf) I
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OXFORD, Ohio - The IUPUI men's and women's track teams will continue their outdoor schedules on Apr. 6-7 when the Jaguars participate at the Miami (Ohio) Invitational on the George L. Rider Track. Track events are expected to start at 5:00 p.m. on Friday and 10:55 a.m. on Saturday.
On the women's side, junior
Rebecca Downs highlights the Jaguars' entries as the team's lone participant in the 10,000m run after having run 5K's the past two weekends. She and teammate
Rebekah Jones will both take the track on Friday night as Jones will participate in the fast heat of the 5,000m race.
Junior
Kaci Verkamp leads a deep group of entries in Saturday's 1,500m race, after having run 18:38.12 in the 5,000m run last weekend at Purdue's Mike Poehlein Invitational. Jones will double up and also run the 1,500, along with senior
Ana Paez, sophomore
Chrissy Leslie and freshman
Amy Mattingly. Mattingly, Paez and redshirt freshman
Emily Vetor will all run the 3,000m steeplechase this weekend. Paez ran 12:05.35 in her first-ever steeplechase at Purdue, while Mattingly ran 12:24.83.
On the men's side, the trio of
Matt Farkas,
Pryce Ragains and
Austin Young will all run their 10,000m season debuts on Friday night. Junior #J.D. Smith
and freshman Zane Cooperider# will begin the men's night in the fast section of the 5,000m run, expected to start at 5:30 p.m..
On Saturday, four other Jaguars will open the day in the second section of the 5,000m race, including freshmen
Spencer Burgin and
Nathan Westfall. Burgin won the 10,000m race at Purdue last weekend.