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Track & Field to Host Larry Ellis Invitational
April 14, 2010 | Men's Track and Field, Women's Track and Field
Friday Heat Sheet
Saturday Performance List
PRINCETON, N.J. (4/14/10) - The Princeton men and women's track & field teams will host the Larry Ellis Invitational this weekend April 16-17 at Weaver Stadium. A schedule of events can be found below and links to the Friday night heats and the Saturday performance list are posted above.
The 25 teams that will be competing in the meet include: Army, Brown, Colgate, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Haverford, La Salle, Lafayette, Lehigh, Manhattan, UMass, UMass Lowell, New Hampshire, Penn, Princeton, Rhode Island, Rider, Rutgers, Seton Hall, St. Joseph's (Pa.), Stonehill, Stony Brook, Syracuse and Vermont.
The meet will begin with the hammer throw on Friday at 3 p.m. The Friday Night Races, the meet's long distance races, will start at 6 p.m., with the women's steeplechase. Those races are open to any individual outside of the 25 declared teams widening the long distance fields.
On Saturday, the women's 4x100 and the shot put will kick things off at noon. The final event of the meet will be the men's 4x400 at 6 p.m.
Last year, Princeton won seven events: the women's hammer (Emma Ruggiero), women's 4x100, men's 1500 (Tim Branigan), men's 400 (Mike Eddy), women's 800 (Brooke Russell), men's high jump (Ian Fox) and the women's pole vault (Jessica Kloss).
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(*please note the schedule for Friday has changed)
3 p.m. Men's Hammer followed by Women's Hammer
5:30 p.m. Men's Discus followed by Women's Discus
5:30 p.m. Women's Steeplechase (top seeded heat will be first in all races)
6 p.m. Men's Steeplechase
6:40 p.m. Women's 800
7 p.m. Men's 800
7:30 p.m. Women's 1500
8 p.m. Men's 1500
8:30 p.m. Women's 5,000
9:15 p.m. Men's 5,000
SATURDAY TRACK EVENTS
12 p.m. Women's 4x100
12:10 p.m. Men's 4x100
12:20 p.m. Women's 1500
12:45 p.m. Men's 1500
1:20 p.m. Women's 100m Hurdles
1:40 p.m. Men's 110m Hurdles
2 p.m. Women's 400
2:20 p.m. Men's 400
2:40 p.m. Women's 100
3 p.m. Men's 100
3:20 p.m. Women's 800
3:40 p.m. Men's 800
4:10 p.m. Women's 400m Hurdles
4:25 p.m. Men's 400m Hurdles
4:40 p.m. Women's 200
5 p.m. Men's 200
5:20 p.m. Women's 3000
5:45 p.m. Women's 4x400
6 p.m. Men's 4x400
SATURDAY FIELD EVENTS
12 p.m. Women's Shot Put followed by Men's Shot Put
12:30 p.m. Women's High Jump, followed by Men's High Jump
12 p.m. Women's Long Jump, followed by Women's Triple Jump (outside pit)
12 p.m. Men's Long Jump, followed by Men's Triple Jump (inside pit)
1 p.m. Men's Pole Vault, followed by Women's Pole Vault
1 p.m. Men's Javelin, followed by Women's Javelin