Live Results
ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University men's and women's track & field teams return from winter break as the Mountain Lions travel to the Marshall Alumni Invite Saturday in Huntington, West Virginia.
LIVE COVERAGE
Athletic Live will handle the live results from Saturday's meet. Field events begin a 10:00 a.m. with running events getting underway at 1:00 p.m. A complete schedule can be found
here.
Live Results
COMPETING TEAMS
Cleveland State
Concord
Georgetown (Ky.)
Lindsey Wilson
Marshall
Morehead State
Ohio
Otterbein
Pikeville
Rio Grande
Shawnee State
West Virginia State
West Virginia Wesleyan
LAST TIME OUT
For many, Saturday will be the first competition of the season after December's only meet at Liberty was limited due to inclement weather, forcing the track & field teams to not be able to travel for the bulk of competition.
However, junior
Braden Ward won the 5,000-meter run at Liberty in early December with a time of 15:15.03. Sophomore
Brandon Canaday was two spots back in a time of 15:31.09. Junior
Bramley Childress clocked 15:32 to place fourth, and sophomore
Reese Hickey ran 15:35.66 in fifth. Freshman
Johnny Walkup made his collegiate track debut in the 5,000-meters with a showing of 16:28.03, good enough for 12
th. Sophomore
Dallas Ford jumped 6.11 meters in the long jump while junior
Shawn Bennett tossed 11.90 meters in the weight throw.
The only female to compete at Liberty was sophomore
Cassidy Hammonds in the pentathlon. She scored 2,918 points to finish eighth. In the five-event sequence, Hammonds had a personal-best mark in the shot put (8.22 meters/414 points). Her best scores came in the 60-meter hurdles (773 points/9.68 seconds) and 800-meter run (639 points/2:34.40).
MARSHALL ALUMNI INVITE ENTIRES
The middle distance and distance events highlight the program for the Mountain Lion men. Ward leads a group of five athletes into the mile run. Ward (4:22) and Hickey (4:25) are ranked in the top 10 in the pre-meet performance list. Junior
Wes Holcomb, freshman
Zach Neal and junior
AJ Skeens join Ward and Hickey in the event. Hickey, Skeens and Ward will double up in the 3,000-meter run as they take to the track with Canaday and Childress. In the 200-meter dash, redshirt freshman
Dom Collins makes his track debut for Concord along with junior
Ryan Covington and freshmen
Myles Gurnee and
William Jackson. The men's shot put will feature sophomore
Tobi Adebulu, Bennett, freshman
Isaac Treadway and sophomore
Marquise Walker.
Like the CU men, the middle distance events are of focus this weekend. In the 800-meters, freshman
Violet Wall (2:18) and Hammonds (2:20.76) both have seed times inside the top 10. Also in the 800-meters will be sophomore
Megan Canterbury, freshman Molly Jones, freshman
Avery Lilly, junior
Charlotte McGinnis and freshman
Larissa Wickline. Jones, Lilly, McGinnis and Wickline will double in the mile alongside sophomore
Larah Blevins and junior
Abbey Londeree. Back over in the 200-meters will be four underclassmen in sophomore
Kendall Lilly, freshmen
Alison Miller and
Hannah Rhodes and sophomore
Jenna Webb. Rounding out the top events for Concord will be Hammonds and K. Lilly in the high jump as both have entries in the top 10 of the event.
