MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Facing a quick turnaround in competition, the West Virginia University track and field team travels to the Virginia Challenge, from April 20-21, in Charlottesville, Virginia.
 
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The two-day meet at Virginia's Lannigan Field is set to begin on Friday at 11 a.m. ET, with Saturday's events scheduled to start at 9 a.m. Live stats are available at flashresults.com. ACC Network Extra also will provide a live stream of the meet at espn.com/watch.
 
"As always, this weekend's meet at Virginia will be one of the absolute elite competitions on the East Coast this spring," WVU coach Sean Cleary said. "For most of the teams, it's a springboard into the championship season, as it will be for us. As with all track and field programs that compete in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions, we're looking forward to favorable weather conditions, and we're excited to see our kids compete in a meet of this caliber."
 
The Virginia Challenge features a competitive field, featuring participating Division I schools such as No. 15 Tennessee, No. 23 Miami (Fla.), Georgetown, Maryland, Michigan State, Navy, NC State, North Carolina, Notre Dame, Penn State, Pitt, Syracuse, Temple, Wake Forest and others.
 
WVU finished up competition at Bucknell's Bison Outdoor Classic, in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, on Sunday, claiming a combined six top-10 finishes at the two-day meet. The Mountaineers' 4x800 relay team of redshirt senior Amy Cashin, redshirt sophomore Candace Jones and redshirt freshmen Antigone Archer and Abby Colbert earned a victory in 9:19.98. Archer also registered a second-place finish in the women's 3,000 meters (10:17.48) earlier in the day.
 
In the women's pole vault, senior Sara Finfrock earned a personal-best mark of 4.02 meters (13 feet, 2.25 inches), the third-best in program history, to place fourth. Freshman Ellie Gardner took fifth in the event, earning a mark of 3.85 meters (12 feet, 7.50 inches).
 
The Mountaineers also earned a pair of top-10 finishes in the women's high jump, as junior Faith Penny matched her outdoor personal-best mark of 1.66 meters (5 feet, 5.25 inches) in a sixth-place finish, while redshirt freshman Kyrielle Williams tied for 10th with a mark of 1.62 meters (5 feet, 3.75 inches).
 
This weekend's voyage to Virginia marks the first of back-to-back trips to the home of the Cavaliers for WVU. The Mountaineers also will compete in the Virginia Grand Prix on Saturday, April 28.
 
WVU has competed at the Virginia Challenge every year since 2012-13. At last year's event, redshirt junior Madelin Gardner broke the outdoor school record in the women's pole vault with a mark of 4.13 meters (13 feet, 6.50 inches) while tying for the event victory. Junior Danique Bryan also had a strong meet, winning the women's long jump competition with a mark of 6.25 meters (20 feet, 6.25 inches) and finishing as the runner-up in the women's triple jump. Bryan recorded a then-career-best jump of 12.99 meters (42 feet, 7.50 inches) in the event.
 
In all, West Virginia tallied seven top-10 finishes at the Virginia Challenge in 2017.
 
The Virginia Challenge marks the second stop in the team's five consecutive weeks of competition, which concludes with the 2018 Big 12 Outdoor Championship, from May 11-13, in Waco, Texas.
 
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