Thursday, April 7, 2011
What's
Ahead: The Drake women's track and field team
will travel south to Columbia, Mo. to compete in the Tom Botts Invitational
this Friday and Saturday (April 8-9). The meet, hosted by the University of
Missouri, will start at 2 p.m. on Friday and 10 a.m. on Saturday.
Last
Time Out:
In its first meet of the outdoor season, the Bulldogs opened
up their campaign at the Spring Razorback Invitational and Central Invite on
Saturday (April 2).
Sophomore Marissa Smith
(Ajax, Ontario) set a personal best in the 100-meter hurdles at the Spring
Razorback Invitational.
Smith's time of 14.35 broke her old personal best by
two-hundredths of a second. Fellow sophomore Sarah Yeager (Ottumwa,
Iowa) was clocked in 15.02 to place 12th.
Throwing in her first meet of the season, junior Megan
Pierce-Cramer (Omaha, Neb.), was fifth in the
discus with a toss of 128 feet 2 inches.
Senior Tyse Samani
(Kansas City, Kan.) tied for fourth in the high jump leaping 5 feet 3 inches.
Seniors Ari Curtis
(Fort Collins, Colo.) and Kara McCartney
(Elgin, Iowa) were 11th and 12th respectively in the 800-meters. Curtis
was clocked in 2:15.90 while McCartney crossed the finish line in 2:16.14.
Junior Kirsten Lake (Parker,
Colo.) was 14th in 2:18.41.
In the 100-meter dash, senior Cambria
Pardner (Aurora, Colo.) placed 12th in
12.22.
Senior Katie Coomer
(Overland Park, Kan.) was 13th in the 3,000-meter race clocking in at 10:33.71,
while senior Casey McDermott
(Newton, Iowa) placed 21st in the 1,500-meters in 4:46.17.
At the Central Invite in Pella, Iowa, sophomore Kelly
Hendricks (Prospect Heights, Ill.) earned a
second-place finish to highlight action for the Bulldogs.
Hendricks had a qualifying time of 12.82 and finished second
in the finals clocking in at 13.07.
Freshmen Celia Venezia
(Labadie, Mo.), Allie Heifner
(Oregon, Wis.) and Connor Twombly (Baldwin,
Kan.) were fourth, sixth and seventh respectively in the 800-meters.
In the 5,000-meters, senior Lindsay Smith
(Lakeville, Minn.) was fourth with a time of 18:16.21.
Up
Next: The Bulldogs return home to host the Jim Duncan
Invitational on April 15 and 16 at Drake Stadium.
