EVANSVILLE, Ind. - With the Missouri Valley Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships just over a week away, the University of Evansville men's and women's track and field teams head to the EIU Friday Night Special on Friday night in Charleston, Ill.
"That's what you want, to get better with each athlete at each competition. Again we're down a few student-athletes who are sick. but we're going to be there and we're going to do better than we did before," said Aces head coach Don Walters. "Our vaulters are looking really good right now. Some of the middle-distance runners are looking really good right now. This is a prelude to the MVC Indoor Championships next weekend. We're going to be ready to go."
The Purple Aces are returning to competition following a record-setting day at the Don DeNoon Invitational in Carbondale, Ill. In all, six program records were broken by the Aces including one record which had stood since 1985. In the shot put, junior Ryan Freeman who broke a 32-year old record with a throw of 12.62 meters, besting Tim Blocker's record by .36 meters, earning a 16th-place finish. On the women's side in the mile run, freshman Anna Lowry shattered the Aces' program record by nearly 35 seconds while capturing a 25th-place finish in the 50-runner field. Records continued to fall in the women's 800 meters where junior Sienna Crews topped Lowry's program record set a week ago. Crews finished the race in 11th with a time of 2:25.99, besting Lowry's record by just over six seconds.
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Friday's meet opens with the men's and women's shot put events at 2 p.m. with action on the track opening at 3 p.m. with the men's and women's 4x800 meter relays.
Competition wraps-up on Friday at 9 p.m. with the men's and women's 1,000 meters.
The meet marks the final event of the indoor regular season for the Purple Aces before competing in the MVC Indoor Championships on February 24 and 25 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
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