BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – WKU Track & Field is headed south to Murfreesboro, Tenn., for the 2021 Conference USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships this coming weekend. While the Championships begin Thursday with the heptathlon and decathlon, WKU will not start competing until Friday afternoon. Events run through Sunday evening.
Meet Info
Hosted by Middle Tennessee
Friday, 2 p.m. CT
Saturday, 3:30 p.m. CT
Sunday, 1:30 p.m. CT
Live Results
Schedule of Events
Most recently, the Hilltoppers had a strong showing at the Kentucky Invitational where the squad returned with 17 top-10 finishes, including nine top-five placements across eight different events. Male pole vaulter Devon Montgomery cleared a career-best 4.73 meters, marking the third-best height in school history. Throwers, distance runners and sprinters all joined in with personal bests and top-five finishes.
The squad currently has several competitors in contention for final races/flights as well as podium finishes at the C-USA Championships. Alexis Williams' 11.69 100-meter time from the Gamecock Invitational is third in the conference while her 200-meter time of 23.58 from the same meet is second. Marlowe Mosley, who placed third in the 200 and 400 at the Indoor C-USA Championships, holds the eighth and fifth fastest times in the league in those events.
Freshman Casey Buchanan is inside the top-10 times for the 800-meter while Clint Sherman and Dedrick Troxell are seventh and ninth, respectively, in the 1500. Savannah Heckman holds the seventh fastest-time in the women's 5k. Grace Turner, who finished on the high jump podium in indoor, has only competed in high jump twice this outdoor season and has the eighth-best mark in the league.
For the throwers, Kaison Barton's most recent shot put mark of 16.60 meters is fifth in the conference while John Elam holds the eighth-best mark in the hammer throw.
WKU will begin competition on Friday afternoon with the women's hammer throw at 2 p.m. CT, followed by the men's at 4:30 p.m. The women will run in the 10k beginning at 8 p.m. followed by the men's event closing the evening at 9 p.m.
On Saturday, nearly all running events are preliminary races while field events are heats with finals. The Red and White will start the day with women's pole vault and men's discus at 3:30 p.m. On the track, WKU will start with the men's 1500-meter prelims at 3:45. The Hilltoppers will also compete in the women's 100, 200 and steeplechase and the men's 100, 200, 400 and 800 on Saturday. The steeplechase on Saturday evening is considered a final race.
As the Championships come to a close, WKU will compete in men's pole vault beginning at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday followed by women's javelin and men's shot put at 3:30. The field events for the Hilltoppers will conclude with women's high jump at 4:30 p.m.
On the track, the day will begin with relays and cycle through the finals of every race from Saturday. The 5k will be run just once on Sunday beginning at 6:05 p.m. for the women, and the 4x400-meter relay will conclude the meet.
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