Track Heads to Penn, Drake Relays
April 28, 2005 | Track and Field
April 28, 2005
Lubbock, Texas - Texas Tech track and field split into three groups for competition this weekend. The field events will be traveling to the Mean Green Twilight at the University of North Texas, the distance crew will be traveling to Des Moines, Iowa for the Drake Relays, and the relay squads will be heading east to the prestigious Penn Relays.
Competing at North Texas will be jumpers Geralda Dukuly, Jeremy Busby, Corey Dowden and Bobby Evers; pole vaulters Bobby Most, Seth Harris, Chris Ashcraft, Sage Thames, Jared Thornhill, Krista Grantham, Kelley Schulz, Dana Rosenbladt, Lindsey Walesheck and Julia Hubbard; high jumpers Misty Coley and Chad Pharis; and multi-event performers Julianne Kennedy and Jamie Robinson. The Mean Green twilight will begin with the field events starting at 1 p.m. and the running events at 6 p.m.
Heading to Drake Relays is Stefanie Calhoun, Bridget Tidwell, Brionne Yosten, Irene Kimaiyo, Violet Chemakwila, Kyle Atwood, Benson Cheserek, Haron Lagat, and Kevin Chelimo. For live results of the Drake Relays, visit http://sonic.net/~peterg/drake/quick/.
Traveling to Philadelphia for the Penn Relays will be Licretia Sibley, Shereefa Lloyd, Tori Polk, Louise Cox, JaToya Moore, Melissa Branch, Tia Barginear, Althea Chambers, Chris Adams, Terry Beard, Tyree Gailes, Derron Herah, Johnny Jacob, Jonathan Johnson, Michael Mathieu, Earvin Parker, Matt Stewart and Andrae Williams. For live results of the Penn Relays, visit http://www.pennathletics.com/fls/1700/Relays/Results/4282005.html?SPSID=10846&SPID=559&DB_OEM_ID=1700.
Going into this weekend's competitions, the Tech men are ranked at No. 24. Individually, Lloyd is standing at eighth in the 200M, Lacy Wilson is ninth in the high jump and Polk is 11th in the long jump. For the men, Gailes is 11th in the 100M, Johnson has the top spot in the 800M and Marlon Odom rounds out the 110M hurdles in the 12th spot. In the relays, the women's 4x400M sits at seventh, the men's 4x400M ranks sixth and the men's 4x100M is in the 11th spot.
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