Track and Field Begins Indoor Season at Indiana Open
January 07, 2010 | Women's Track and Field
Jan. 7, 2010
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The University of Louisville track and field team will start the New Year off by traveling to Bloomington, Ind. on January 9, 2010 for the Indiana Open at the Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse. The start time for the field events will begin at 11:30 a.m. ET and conclude at 2:45 p.m., while the track events will start at 11 a.m. and finish around 3:30 p.m.
The Cardinal men and women are looking to continue their impressive and record setting season from a year ago when the men were ranked as high as ninth in the USTFCCCA Indoor top 25 poll and the women finished No. 22, which gave them their first ever indoor national ranking. Both teams also combined to win seven weekly Big East Indoor awards, and Jake Jacoby was named Southeast Region Men's Assistant Coach of the year by the USTFCCCA.
"Our primary goal is to get the dust off for this first meet and to make sure we get a lot of Big East qualifying marks and just move forward from that point," said sixth year U of L head coach Ron Mann. "We are going to move right on through this season, with a very competitive crescendo to end the year."
The women enter the season ranked No. 18 in the USTFCCCA poll. They are led by junior D'Ana McCarty, who became the first female athlete in Louisville history to win a national championship with her win in the weight throw competition at the 2009 NCAA Indoor Championships. She was also the BIG EAST Indoor Champion in the event and finished first in all nine indoor weight throw appearances.
The men are led by seniors Tone Belt, Andre Black and Cory Thorne. Belt was the BIG EAST Indoor Champion in the long jump, while Black finished first in the indoor triple jump at three different events as well as the BIG EAST Championships. Thorne is fresh off an impressive cross country season where he earned All-American honors.
Next up, the Cards will travel to Lexington, Ky. for the Kentucky Invitational on January 15-16.
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