Concord Opens Indoor Season at Roanoke College

Live Results

ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's and women's track and field teams open up the 2019-20 indoor season at the Bast-Cregger Invite hosted by Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia Friday and Saturday.

LIVE RESULTS
Results: Snap Timing will provide live results as each event concludes throughout the weekend.

THE RETURNERS
On the women's side, CU returns two athletes who earned All-Mountain East Conference last season during the outdoor season. Sophomore Jada Strachan was the runner-up in the 800-meter run while junior Josea Smith finished third in the 400-meter hurdles. The duo was also part of Concord's third-place 4x400-meter relay team.
The men's returners are highlighted by seniors Damon Akers and Jason Weitzel. Akers was a two-time MEC Champion in the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs as a junior in 2018 before injury cut his 2019 outdoor campaign short. Meanwhile, Weitzel is a seven-time all-region performer and appears five times in the CU record books for both indoor and outdoor track. Another returner for Concord is sophomore Isaac Prather, who finished third in both the 3,000-meter steeplechase and 10,000-meter run as a freshman at the MEC Championships.

SEASON NOTES
The Mountain Lions are scheduled to compete in five indoor meets this winter with the next meet not coming until January 19 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. CU returns to Roanoke College January 24-25 before back-to-back meets at VMI February 7-8 and February 14-15. And for the first time in seven years of the MEC, the league will hold an indoor championship meet in Huntington, West Virginia February 22-23.

BAST-CREGGER ENTRIES
Concord will send junior Kate Golinsky and freshman Gretchen Mills to the start line in the mile run while junior Kiersten Shrader and senior Autumn Thomas will compete in the 200-meter run. Smith opens up the indoor season with an entry in the 600-meter dash along with sophomore Briana Parsons. Shrader will also being in the 60-meter dash as well as the long jump with freshman Maggie Thompson. Thompson will be the lone CU participant in the triple jump. The Mountain Lions will have two 4x400-meter relay teams. Mills, Smith, Jada Strachan and redshirt freshman Jerell Strachan make up one team while Parsons, Shrader, Thomas and Thompson comprise the other. Throughout both days of the meet, senior Linda Ault will compete in the pentathlon. She will be the only CU athlete competing on Friday.

The most entries for Concord in a single men's event in the mile run. Sophomore Daniel Baldwin, junior Andrew Barbera, senior Cooper Brady, sophomore Cedric Drennen, sophomore Cole Jackson, freshman Devin O'Sullivan and freshman Alex Watty make up the CU field. Four more Mountain Lions, freshman Joe Cantley, senior Corey Carvelli, junior Kelshawn Grant and sophomore Hunter Thomas, are scheduled to compete in the 200-meter dash. Barbera and Brady along with freshman John Casey and freshman Nate Leichner will line up in the 3,000-meter run. In the 600-meter dash, junior Trevor Armes, junior Riley Griffith, junior Ryan Muse and junior Brett Strickland will represent Concord.

In addition to the Bast-Cregger Invite, junior Samuel Haynes and Weitzel will be competing in the GVSU Holiday Open at Grand Valley State Friday.