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Mountaineers Set for Nittany Lion Challenge
January 15, 2016 01:43 PM | Track & Field
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University track and field team starts the regular season with the Nittany Lion Challenge, on Saturday, Jan. 16, in State College, Pennsylvania. The meet begins with the women’s 20-lb weight throw at 10:30 a.m., at the Ashenfelter Indoor Track.
“We are excited to get the winter started,” said coach Sean Cleary. “We are opening a little later than usual, and for that reason we are pretty excited. After weeks of practice, we want to see what we’ve been working on executed on the track in competition.”
A total of nine schools will be competing in the event. Akron, Binghamton, Cornell, Georgetown, Miami (Fla.), Pittsburgh and UConn will join Penn State and West Virginia.
Live Stats, a complete event schedule and heat sheet can be found at WVUsports.com.
Georgetown and Miami were ranked in the preseason top 25 USTFCCCA national rankings. Georgetown sits at No. 10 and Miami at No. 17.
The last time WVU competed at the Nittany Lion Challenge was in 2012. In their last season in the Big East Conference, the Mountaineers earned two Big East Championship-qualifying marks in the long jump and high jump, at the event.
Next up, West Virginia hosts the annual Marty Pushkin Classic, at the WVU Shell Building, on Saturday, Jan. 23. WVU then returns to PSU for the Penn State National Invitational, on Jan. 29-30.
The Mountaineers opened the 2015 indoor season with the WVU Intersquad meet, at the WVU Shell Building, on Dec. 4.
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