Track and Field Teams Head North to Gladstein Invitational
January 20, 2011 | Women's Track and Field
Jan. 20, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With two meets under their belts, the University of Louisville men's and women's track and field teams are hoping to build on their performances at the Gladstein Invitational in Bloomington, Ind. The two-day event at the Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse, which is hosted by Indiana University, begins on Friday, Jan. 21, and continues on Saturday.
The Cardinals open the day with the field events at 3:30 p.m., with the track events starting at 4:30 p.m. On Saturday, action picks up at 11 a.m., with the track events, and the field events will start an hour later at noon. Live results can be found on . The meet features more than 20 teams and over 800 athletes.
Louisville competed last week at the Kentucky Track and Field Invitational, with D'Ana McCarty leading the way. She collected her ninth-straight victory on the first day of competition in the indoor weight throw, with a toss of 21.11m/69-3.25. Charachesicia Lockhart (triple jump) and Neil Angermeier (high jump) also had strong performances that day, as each took third in their respective events.
On the second day of the meet, six athletes set career-best marks. Weston Banks registered a personal-best 17.72m/58-1.75 in the shot put for a second-place finish, while Howard Shepard, III, posted an impressive time in the 800m, completing the race in 1:51.48 to place No. 2 in the event; he fell just three seconds short of posting an NCAA automatic qualifying mark. Lockhart earned her second first-place finish of the meet, taking the top spot in the long jump with a solid mark of 6.22m/20-5. Meanwhile, in the throws events, Khadija Abdullah carried the momentum from the first shot put competition of the season by taking first with a toss of 16.09m/52-9.5.
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| Day 1 - Friday, Jan. 21 |
| Field Events |
| Women's Shot Put Finals, 3:30 p.m. |
| Khadija Abdullah, Chinwe Okoro, D'Ana McCarty, Amashi Kendall, Patrice Gates |
| Men's Triple Jump Finals, 4 p.m. |
| Seon Powell |
| Women's Triple Jump Finals, 5 p.m. |
| Maggie Gilbertson, Kim Cardeiro |
| Men's Weight Throw Finals, following |
| Weston Banks, Josh Greenwald, Sam Bombaugh |
| Women's Pole Vault Finals, 6:20 p.m. (opening height 3.25m) |
| Cassie Dunn, Chelsea Lucas, Andrea Sabbatine |
| Men's Pole Vault Finals, following (opening height 4.50m) |
| Kevin Jackson, Kyle Gann |
| Women's High Jump Finals, 7:20 p.m. (opening height 1.51m) |
| Maggie Gilbertson, Megan Schubert, Michelle Theophille |
| Track Events |
| Women's 3,000m Finals, 4:30 p.m. |
| Ariel Briggs, Paige Dooley, Maria Frigo, Olivia Horvath |
| Men's 3,000m Finals, 5 p.m. |
| Luke Lovelace, Tyler Byrne, Gordon Dooley, Ryan Eaton |
| Women's 60m Semifinals, 5:55 p.m. (top 16 times advance to a two-section final on Saturday) |
| Saravia Richardson, Margret Harris, Chelsea Brown, Charachesicia Lockhart |
| Men's 60m Semifinals, 6:05 p.m. (top 16 times advance to a two-section final on Saturday) |
| Wesley Smith |
| Women's 60m Hurdles Semifinals, 6:20 p.m. (top 16 times advance to a two-section final on Saturday) |
| Gabrielle Jackson |
| Men's 60m Hurdles Semifinals, 6:30 p.m. (top 16 times advance to a two-section final on Saturday) |
| Seon Powell |
| Women's 400m Invitational, 6:40 p.m. |
| Ahlivia Spencer |
| Men's 400m Invitational, 6:50 p.m. |
| Marcellus Hobbs |
| Men's 3,000m Invitational, 7:15 p.m. |
| Matt Hughes |
| Men's Mile Invitational, 7:40 p.m. |
| Chris Wolfe |
| Women's Mile Finals, 8:10 p.m. |
| Cassie Martin |
| Men's Mile Finals, 8:25 p.m. |
| Howard Shepard, III |
| Day 2 - Saturday, Jan. 22 |
| Field Events |
| Women's Long Jump Finals, 12 p.m. |
| Margret Harris, Kim Cardeiro, Maggie Gilbertson |
| Women's Weight Throw Finals, following |
| D'Ana McCarty, Hannah Baker, Patrice Gates, Amashi Kendall |
| Men's High Jump Finals, 12:40 p.m. (opening height 1.90m) |
| Michael Edwards, Neil Angermeier |
| Men's Shot Put Finals, 12:40 p.m. |
| Weston Banks, Sam Bombaugh, Josh Greenwald |
| Track Events |
| Women's 200m Finals, 11 a.m. |
| Gabrielle Jackson, D'minia Stokes, Chokilah Aldridge |
| Women's 60m Finals, 11:35 a.m. (two sections; contingent upon advancing) |
| Saravia Richardson, Margret Harris, Chelsea Brown, Charachesicia Lockhart |
| Men's 60m Finals, 11:45 a.m. (two sections; contingent upon advancing) |
| Wesley Smith |
| Women's 60m Hurdles Finals, 11:50 a.m. (two sections; contingent upon advancing) |
| Gabrielle Jackson |
| Men's 60m Hurdles Finals, 11:55 a.m. (two sections; contingent upon advancing) |
| Seon Powell |
| Women's 800m Invitational, 12:40 p.m. |
| Jordan Diaz |
| Men's 800m Invitational, 12:50 p.m. |
| Evan Hibbs |
| Women's 600m Invitational, 1:20 p.m. |
| Ahlivia Spencer |
| Men's 600m Invitational, 1:30 p.m. |
| Sirron Warren |
| Women's 200m Invitational, 1:35 p.m. |
| Saravia Richardson, Chelsea Brown, Margret Harris, Charachesicia Lockhart |
| Men's 200m Invitational, 1:45 p.m. |
| Marcellus Hobbs |
| Women's 4x400m Finals, 2:35 p.m. |
| Louisville `A' - Brown, Harris, Lockhart, Spencer |
| Louisville `B' - Jackson, Stokes, Aldridge, Diaz |
| Men's 4x400m Finals, following |
| Louisville `A' - Hobbs, Warren, Shepard, Smith |
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