Concord Competes at Roanoke Elite Saturday

Live Results - Performance List

ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's and women's track and field teams travel to the Roanoke Elite hosted by Roanoke College Saturday.

LIVE COVERAGE
Results: Roanoke College in collaboration with Snap Timing will provide live event-by-event results for the meet.

LAST TIME OUT
Junior Kiersten Shrader picked up two top-10 finishes when CU was at Roanoke College for the Finn-Pincus Invite last weekend. The Pearisburg, Virginia native was fourth in the 60-meter dash (8.17 seconds) while she placed 10^th in the 200-meter dash (27.64 seconds). The distance medley team of sophomore Hannah Altizer, senior Heather Chernutan, freshman Gretchen Mills and senior Aidan Payton ran 13:14 and finished third.

Chernutan and Mills made up half of Concord's 4x400-meter relay team along with junior Josea Smith and senior Autumn Thomas as the group finished seventh in 4:27.97.

In men's action, senior Jason Weitzel picked up a win in the mile run as he held off challengers, running 4:18.06. Sophomore Cedric Drennen joined Weitzel in the top 10 by placing 10 with a showing of 4:29.40.

Drennen, Weitzel, senior Corey Carvelli and freshman Alex Watty combined to run 10:28 in the distance medley relay as they finished second. Junior Andrew Barbera led a pack of CU athletes in the 5,000-meter run as he finished ninth in a time of 16:41. Fellow junior Samuel Thomas was 10^th, stopping the clock at 16:45.

ROANOKE ELITE ENTRIES
Seven women's athletes take to the track in the 800-meter run led by junior Kate Golinksy in the fastest heat of the meet. Senior Linda Ault, freshman Jackie Endy, sophomore Kyla Marshall and sophomore Brittany Vaught will be in the middle heat while junior Lindsey Cummings and sophomore Briana Parsons will line up in the third heat.

Five Mountain Lions compete in the 200-meters with Thomas seeded in the top 10 of the event. She will be joined by Chernutan, Shrader, junior Josea Smith and freshman Maggie Thompson.

Off a strong performance in the distance medley relay on the same track, Altizer, Mills and Payton will race the 3,000-meter run this weekend.
Ault, Shrader and Thompson will represent Concord in the long jump in field event action.

For the men, freshman Channing Carr, Carvelli, junior Kelshawn Grant and junior Davion Green will be in the long jump.

Head coach Mike Cox will send 11 men's athletes to the start line in the 800-meters. They are junior Trevor Armes, sophomore Daniel Baldwin, senior Cooper Brady, Carr, Drennen, junior Riley Griffith, junior Samuel Haynes, freshman Nate Leichner, sophomore Isaac Prather, Weitzel and junior Raheem Williams.

Seven more Mountain Lions are entered in the 400-meter dash with the group made up of sophomore Micah Bates, Carvelli, sophomore Robbie Cochran, junior Ryan Muse, freshman Justin Sexton, Watty and junior Marcus Wilson.

In sprint action, junior Isaiah Bowman, Cochran, Grant, Chase Powers, Darius Smith, sophomore Hunter Thomas and senior Bennie White will be in the 60-meter dash.

A complete performance list can be found here or at the top of the page.