Next Up: TF Heads to South Alabama
Apr 8, 2011 | Track & Field
April 8, 2011
4/9/2011
Tulane Green Wave at South Alabama Invitational
Teams: Concordia-Selma, Dillard, Loyola (La.), South Alabama, Southeastern Louisiana, Southern (La.), Stillman, Troy, Tulane, West Florida, Xavier (La.).
Start Time: 10:00 a.m.
Site: Jaguar Track (Mobile, Ala.)
With only a few student-athletes competing last weekend, the Tulane track and field program will take most of their roster to Mobile, Ala. to compete in the South Alabama Invitational. The Jaguar Track will host the all-day event on Saturday, April 9 with many of the Green Wave runners looking to continue to improve on their times from the LSU Relays.
Rebecca Coady is the only Green Wave runner to compete last weekend that will take to the track at the South Alabama Invitational. The senior will run the 5,000-meter run on Saturday after setting a personal-best in the mile run in Florida. The 5,000-meter is the only distance race that Coady has not competed in this season on the track, as she has set a new PR in the other three events (800, 1,500 and 3,000).
In the 1,500-meter run, sophomore Katherine Crabtree will take to the lanes in Mobile in hopes of lowering her personal best from two weeks ago. Crabtree ran 4:58.31 at the LSU Relays, which was a second better than her PR of 4:59.83 which she set at the Louisiana Classics.
Freshman sprinter Hilary Woods will be one of four Tulane women to compete in multiple events, running the 100 and 200-meter dashes, while Adiyah Crute (200m, 100m Hurdles), Elizabeth Thomassie (Discus, Javelin) and Danna Wasserman (Long Jump, Triple Jump) will also have double duty at the invitational.
The 4x400-meter relay squad of Jerica Banks, Candice St. Etienne, Tiffanie Smith and Woods will try and improve upon their season-best time of 3:50.07, which they set in the final of the LSU Relays two weeks ago. On the men's side, Christopher Arechiga, Jon Frano, Jordon Holtzman and Koplan Nwabuoku are shooting for a season-best time in their second straight meet, as well.
Jared Firestone will run both the 100 and 200-meter dash events, his first two-event meet since the season opening Tulane Team Challenge, where he set a new career-best at 22.39 in the 200-meter. Julius Warmsley will throw both the discus and javelin on Saturday, after uncorking a team-best 60.33-meter throw in the javelin two weeks ago at the LSU Relays to place third.
Garrett Myer will continue to prepare for the decathlon with a three-event program over the weekend. The sophomore will participate in the javelin, long jump and 100-meter dash at South Alabama. Myer has already set a personal record in the javelin (36.49m) and the long jump (3.63m) and will look to improve on his season-opening showing of 11.41-seconds in the 100-meter dash, which he ran at the Tulane Team Challenge.
Field events will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, while running events will be competed on a rolling schedule that starts at 11:30.
--TulaneGreenWave.com--
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