WVU Set for Big 12 Indoor Championship
February 22, 2018 01:04 PM | Track & Field
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University track and field team travels to Ames, Iowa, to compete in the 2018 Big 12 Indoor Track and Field Championship, from Feb. 23-24, at the Lied Recreation Athletic Facility.
MEET SCHEDULE | LIVE RESULTS | LIVE VIDEO STREAM
The two-day competition is set to begin on Friday at 11 a.m. ET, with Saturday's events scheduled to start at noon.
FloSports will provide live video coverage of the championship meet at FloTrack.org. Live stats are available at results.deltatiming.com. Fans also can find additional information at the event's championship headquarters.
"Our belief is that we can go into this meet and emerge with our best combined performance of the winter," WVU coach Sean Cleary said. "My personal goal is to come home with seven or eight All-Big 12 awards and/or lifetime-best marks. The group is excited to get out there and compete."
WVU features six student-athletes ranked in five different events in this week's Mid-Atlantic Regional rankings. Redshirt junior Madelin Gardner leads the region in the women's pole vault, while senior Shamoya McNeil tops the women's triple jump list.
Redshirt seniors Amy Cashin and Maggie Drazba are ranked in a pair of events this week, as Cashin ranks second in the women's mile and women's 3,000 meters, while Drazba is fifth in the 3,000 meters and women's 5,000 meters.
Junior Danique Bryan (No. 3, triple jump) and senior Sara Finfrock (No. 4, pole vault) are also regionally ranked this week.
The Mountaineers have nine representatives featured in the top 10 of the Big 12's event rankings, including Cashin, who is No. 1 in the women's mile with a converted time of 4:36.89 from the UCS Invitational on Feb. 17. Cashin, who was named the Big 12 Track and Field Female Athlete of the Week for the second time this indoor season on Wednesday, ranks second in the conference in the 3,000 meters (9:11.24) with her performance at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Feb. 9, while Gardner holds the No. 2 spot in the pole vault with her school-record mark of 4.37 meters (14 feet, 4 inches) from the Akron Invitational on Feb. 3.
The Big 12 features three schools ranked in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's (USTFCCCA) National Team Rankings entering the conference meet: No. 13 Kansas, No. 19 Kansas State and No. 21 Iowa State.
At last year's conference meet, WVU earned eight All-Big 12 honors.
Last time out, the Mountaineers earned three wins and nine top-five finishes at the Penn State Tune-Up in University Park, Pennsylvania, and the UCS Invitational in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Feb. 17. Cashin won the women's mile at the UCS Invite, while freshman McKenna Smith won the women's 200 and 400 meters in 24.73 and 55.88, respectively.
Friday's women's event finals include the pentathlon, distance medley relay, 5,000 meters, weight throw, pole vault and long jump.
For more information on the Mountaineers, visit WVUsports.com and follow the team on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
MEET SCHEDULE | LIVE RESULTS | LIVE VIDEO STREAM
The two-day competition is set to begin on Friday at 11 a.m. ET, with Saturday's events scheduled to start at noon.
FloSports will provide live video coverage of the championship meet at FloTrack.org. Live stats are available at results.deltatiming.com. Fans also can find additional information at the event's championship headquarters.
"Our belief is that we can go into this meet and emerge with our best combined performance of the winter," WVU coach Sean Cleary said. "My personal goal is to come home with seven or eight All-Big 12 awards and/or lifetime-best marks. The group is excited to get out there and compete."
WVU features six student-athletes ranked in five different events in this week's Mid-Atlantic Regional rankings. Redshirt junior Madelin Gardner leads the region in the women's pole vault, while senior Shamoya McNeil tops the women's triple jump list.
Redshirt seniors Amy Cashin and Maggie Drazba are ranked in a pair of events this week, as Cashin ranks second in the women's mile and women's 3,000 meters, while Drazba is fifth in the 3,000 meters and women's 5,000 meters.
Junior Danique Bryan (No. 3, triple jump) and senior Sara Finfrock (No. 4, pole vault) are also regionally ranked this week.
The Mountaineers have nine representatives featured in the top 10 of the Big 12's event rankings, including Cashin, who is No. 1 in the women's mile with a converted time of 4:36.89 from the UCS Invitational on Feb. 17. Cashin, who was named the Big 12 Track and Field Female Athlete of the Week for the second time this indoor season on Wednesday, ranks second in the conference in the 3,000 meters (9:11.24) with her performance at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational on Feb. 9, while Gardner holds the No. 2 spot in the pole vault with her school-record mark of 4.37 meters (14 feet, 4 inches) from the Akron Invitational on Feb. 3.
The Big 12 features three schools ranked in the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's (USTFCCCA) National Team Rankings entering the conference meet: No. 13 Kansas, No. 19 Kansas State and No. 21 Iowa State.
At last year's conference meet, WVU earned eight All-Big 12 honors.
Last time out, the Mountaineers earned three wins and nine top-five finishes at the Penn State Tune-Up in University Park, Pennsylvania, and the UCS Invitational in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on Feb. 17. Cashin won the women's mile at the UCS Invite, while freshman McKenna Smith won the women's 200 and 400 meters in 24.73 and 55.88, respectively.
Friday's women's event finals include the pentathlon, distance medley relay, 5,000 meters, weight throw, pole vault and long jump.
For more information on the Mountaineers, visit WVUsports.com and follow the team on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
Players Mentioned
Long Jump/Triple Jump
/ Track & Field
Distance
/ Track & Field
Distance
/ Track & Field
Pole Vault
/ Track & Field
Pole Vault
/ Track & Field
Jumps
/ Track & Field
Sprints
/ Track & FieldT&F: DMR Team Big 12 Championship Post-Race Interview
Saturday, March 01
Petal Palmer - 2024 Wilma Rudolph Award Recipient
Monday, June 10
A Conversation with Wren Baker
Monday, December 05
Life as a Mountaineer - Haley Jackson
Monday, May 16
