By Holly Weber, TTU Sports Information
COOKEVILLE, Tenn.—The Tennessee Tech track and field team will kick off their outdoor season on Friday-Saturday at the Weems Baskin Invitational hosted by the University of South Carolina at the Cregger Track facility. Festivities on both days are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. CT.
"We are excited to be competing again after a well-deserved rest from our championship efforts at the indoor OVC Championships," head coach Wayne Angel said. "We are revived and ready to put in the work and be the best that we can be in May."
"The Weems Baskin Invitational is going to be a highly competitive meet," Angel continued. "I look to see numerous records fall this weekend. We don't intend to rest on our laurels. We recognize that there is still a lot of work yet to be done and that is our focus this weekend."
Meet Schedule
A complete schedule for the meet can be found here.
Follow the Meet Live
Live results will be provided throughout the day as the heats finish here.
Tickets
If you are in the Columbia, S.C., area and want to see all the action in person, admission to the 2017 Weems Baskin Invitational is $8 for a weekend pass and $5 for a single day. Tickets may be purchased on-site at Cregger Track. There are no advance ticket sales.
Competitions to Watch
The group of Na'Asha Robinson, Jaydean Joseph, Sharnique Leonce, and D'Airrien Jackson will be competing in the 4x400-meter relay, which they previously claimed the indoor OVC title in at the OVC Championships on Feb. 24-25, and will look to carry that success from indoor over to their outdoor season.
Sarah Brandt will kick off her outdoor season competing in the 1,500-meter, which she possesses the school record in with a time of 4:30.41. Antonia Susnjar will be competing in the javelin, which she hold the Golden Eagle record for with a 128'9" mark.
Last Time Out
The Tennessee Tech squad last competed at the indoor Ohio Valley Conference Championships on Feb. 24-25, where they claimed a second-place finish: the highest finishing by any Golden Eagle squad in school history. The Purple and Gold team tallied 111 points in the meet, coming up just 14 points shy of the indoor OVC Champion Eastern Illinois.
Na'Asha Robinson had a superb showing for Tech, claiming the OVC title in the 400-meter dash with a time of 54.14 and the 200-meter dash with a 24.01 mark. N. Robinson was also part of the quad of Jaydean Joseph, Sharnique Leonce, and D'Airrien Jackson that claimed a first-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 3:46.60, which smashed the former Golden Eagle school record
The group of Sarah Brandt, Joseph, Madison Stremler, and Micayla Rennick claimed a first place finish in the 4,000-meter distance medley relay. Their time of 11:50.66, smashed the OVC meet record of 11:53.75, which was previously held by a 2015 Eastern Kentucky squad.
Leonce claimed a first place finish in the pentathlon. Leonce recorded 3,454 points in the races, tallying over 100 points more than the next participant from Murray State. In the pentathlon, she recorded a 60-meter hurdle time of 9.05, a high jump of 1.70 meters, a shot put of 9.48 meters, a long jump of 5.31 meters, and an 800-meter time of 2:41.23.
Photo by Thomas Corhern
