WICHITA,
Kan. -- The Wichita State track & field team takes to the road this weekend
for its first away meets of the indoor season after winning 14 events at the
season-opening Herm Wilson Invitational at home last week.
A
handful of Shockers are entered to compete in the Nebraska Wesleyan
Invitational Friday, then will join the majority of the team in the Adidas
Classic Saturday in Lincoln, Neb.
The
Nebraska Wesleyan Invitational begins at 11:30 a.m. Friday with events taking
place in both the Nebraska Wesleyan Knight Fieldhouse and at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center on Nebraska's campus. Student-athletes
from Wichita State, Doane, Nebraska, Air Force, Nebraska Wesleyan, Northwest
Missouri State, Hastings, Baker and several other programs are schedule to compete.
Nebraska
hosts the Adidas Classic starting at 12:30 p.m. Saturday and will compete
against Wichita State, Houston, Air Force and Iowa in the meet at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center. The Nebraska men are ranked fifth in the preseason U.S.
Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association rankings, and the
Nebraska women are ranked 25th in Division I. The Iowa men's team is
ranked 16th in the preseason list.
In
addition to winning 14 event titles at the Herm Wilson Invitational, the
Shockers won both the men's and women's team titles in the meet Jan. 11-12 at
the Heskett Center.
Shocker Lawson
Montgomery's Herm Wilson Invitational 60-meter hurdle time of 7.95 was tied for
19th in the nation on the TFRRS 2011-12 Indoor College Leaderboard Thursday. Montgomery
is slated to compete against a field that includes Iowa's Jordan Mullen
Saturday in the 60-meter hurdles. Mullen has the nation's 10th-fastest
time in the event this season (7.87).
Shocker Danielle Walker's 800-meter time from the Herm Wilson Invitational (2:13.54)
and Aliphine Tuliamuk's mile time (4:53.73) rank among the top-40 times in the
nation. Walker is scheduled to compete in the women's mile and 4x400-meter
relay Saturday. Tuliamuk is entered in Saturday's women's 3,000 meters.
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