EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The University of Evansville track and field teams will travel east on Friday to Louisville, Kentucky to take part in the 2023 Bellarmine Open at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center.  Field events will begin the one-day meet at 9 a.m. central time, with track events on the banked indoor oval beginning at 10 a.m. central time.

UE will join 15 other schools at Friday's meet, including Division I foes Bellarmine, IUPUI, Morehead State, Murray State, Northern Kentucky, Tennessee Tech, UT Martin, USI and Western Kentucky.  It will mark the second time this season in which UE will compete at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center, which is considered by many as one of the top indoor facilities in the Midwest.  The 200-meter hydraulically-banked track designed by Mondo and Kiefer at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center is one of only eight such tracks in the United States.

Evansville is coming off of competition last weekend at the Vanderbilt Commodore Challenge in Nashville, Tennessee.  The Purple Aces broke indoor school records in the 600- and 1,000-meters on the men's side last weekend, as senior Steven Burkhart (Vincennes, Ind./South Knox) and sophomore Adam Oulgout (St. Paul, Minn./Central) carved their names into the UE record books.  Overall, UE has broken five school records in three combined meets so far this indoor track & field season, as senior Zach Dove (Princeton, Ind./Princeton Community) and graduate student Antonia Lamond (Nutley, N.J./Paramus Catholic) broke three indoor throwing records at the Commonwealth College Opener on December 3 at the Norton Healthcare Sports & Learning Center.