WKU Track & Field to Host Hilltopper Relays, Senior Day

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BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Hilltopper and Lady Topper Track & Field are set to host the annual WKU Hilltopper Relays on Friday from the Charles M. Reuter Track & Field Complex. In total, 19 teams will be represented at the Relays.

Action will begin at 9 a.m. CT with field events and a rolling schedule of running events will start at noon. The Senior Day festivities are estimated to begin around 2:45 p.m. with the remainder of the running events to follow.

Nine seniors will be celebrated at Senior Day including Savannah Ames, Will Bush, Jonathon Hayden, Morgan McIntyre, Eli Minor, Desmond Mobley, Julius Morris, Ariel Terrell and Khadijah Valentine. Five of the nine have competed on The Hill for all four years of their collegiate careers.

WKU is coming off a strong performance at the Pepsi Florida Relays where the Hilltoppers and Lady Toppers combined for eight top-15 finishes against a field that included 14 ranked teams.

Parking
Spectator parking will be available in Parking Structure 2 which sits between Diddle Arena and the football stadium. Spectators should press the intercom button and inform the attendant they are attending the track meet.

Ticketing
Admission to the track meet will be free.

Live Results
Live results for the 2018 Hilltopper Relays will be provided by Delta Timing. The results can be found at: http://results.deltatiming.com/tf/2018-hilltopper-relays.

Seniors
Savannah Ames is a four-year letterwinner in both cross country and track and field for the Red and White. The Belleville, Illinois native competed in the NCAA Cross Country Regionals, representing WKU two times in her career as a Lady Topper. She has run in ten C-USA Championships across cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field. She also owned WKU's best times for steeplechase as well as indoor 800-meter and mile runs of the 2016-17 season.

Will Bush is a three-year letterwinner for WKU Track & Field. He was a first team all-conference performer in the 4x100-meter relay at the C-USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Hailing from Louisville, Bush ran in the NCAA Preliminary Qualifier in the 2017 outdoor season and is an NCAA Championships qualifier. He has also competed in the 60, 100, 200-meter race as well as several relays for the Red and White.

Jonathan Hayden is a four-year letter winner and a competitor at the 2016 and 2017 NCAA Preliminary Qualifiers in the 110-meter hurdles in addition to being an NCAA Championships Qualifier. The West Palm Beach, Florida native has earned all-conference honors six times in his hurdling career as a Hilltopper. He also owns the third fastest time for both the 60 and 110-meter hurdles in program history.

Morgan McIntyre is a four-year letterwinner at WKU hailing Ashland, Kentucky. She is a three-time Conference USA Pole Vault Champion and a four-time all-conference performer in the same event. McIntyre has earned NCAA All-Academic honors and owns the three of the top-five program best clears in the indoor event, including the second best mark. She also holds the third, fourth, and fifth best marks in program history in the outdoor pole vault.

Eli Minor is a two-year letterwinner on The Hill from Inkster, Michigan, running a variety of sprinting events for WKU. Minor is an NCAA All-American in the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays. He has earned first team all-conference accolades in both the outdoor 4x100 and 400-meter relays as well. Eli tied the WKU program best in the indoor 60-meter dash earlier this year.

Desmond Mobley is a two-year letterwinner at WKU and the Rochester, New York, native participates in high jump, long jump and triple jump for the Red and White. He has earned all-conference honors twice in the long jump and once in high jump. Mobley also competed in the high jump and long jump at the NCAA Preliminary Qualifiers in 2017.

Julius Morris is a four-year letterwinner at WKU. Morris has earned 14 all-conference honors and been a conference champion seven times across five different events in his career as a Hilltopper. The senior has competed on the world stage several times including at the most recent Indoor and Outdoor World Championships and the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Morris tied the indoor 200-meter dash program record this past indoor season and owns the third fastest 60-meter indoor time. He also holds the second fastest 100- and 200-meter outdoor times in program history. Morris was also a member of the 4x100-meter relay team holding the first, second and fourth fastest times in program history. He is a two-time NCAA All-American including a first-team All-American in the 4x100-meter relay and second-team All-American in the 200-meter.

Ariel Terrell is four-year letterwinner from Atlanta, Georgia. She was a member of the school record-setting distance medley relay team in 2015. Terrell is also a member of the third fastest 4x400-meter relay team in program history. She has earned all-conference accolades four times across the 4x100 and 400-meter relays. She was also an NCAA Preliminary Qualifier.

Khadijah Valentine is a three-year letterwinner hailing from Toronto, Ontario. She competed at the NCAA Preliminary Qualifier two times in her career as a Lady Topper. Valentine was named to an all-conference team eight times across both relay events and the 100 and 200-meter dashes. She owns the third and fifth best 200-meter times and third fastest 4x100-meter relay time in outdoor program history.

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Players Mentioned

Savannah Ames

Will Bush

Jonathan Hayden

Morgan McIntyre

Eli Minor

Desmond Mobley

Julius Morris

Ariel Terrell

Khadijah Valentine