Vanderbilt Invitational schedule of events (PDF)

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- The Tennessee Tech women's track & field team will head to Nashville Friday and Saturday to compete in the Vanderbilt Invitational. Several members of the men's cross country team will also attend to run in the distance events.

Competition begins at 3 p.m. Friday with several field events, including the long jump, javelin, shot put and men's pole vault. Running events commence at 5 p.m. Friday. Among the events on Friday evening in which Tech has multiple entries are three distance races -- the 1,500 and 5,000 and the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

Saturday's schedule opens at 10 a.m. with the women's hammer, followed at noon by the women's pole vault, triple jump and high jump. The day's action on the track starts at noon with the 4x100 relays.

Several Golden Eagles are coming off career-best efforts last week at Tennessee State's Boston-Moon Classic in Nashville and are looking to continue their improvement this spring. Danielle Catlett ran a personal best in the 400-meter dash, Ashley Evans and Tiffany Palmer in the 3,000-meter run, Kathryn Forbes at 1,500 meters and both Krysten Joshen and Justine Phillips in the 100- and 200-meter dashes.

Stephanie Place, who holds every Tech record above 3,000 meters, added a career-best time at 1,500 meters, along with Amanda Simmons.

In the field events, freshman Katie Lowery tied her own school record in the pole vault and Haley Wennerstrom had a P.R. in the hammer.

Among the Golden Eagle men, Peter Woerner ran a 10:13.64 in the 3,000-mete steeplechase at TSU which is a school record in that event.

Results from the Vanderbilt Invitational will be available on TTUsports.com.