MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia University track and field team makes its second consecutive trip to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Virginia Grand Prix, on Saturday, April 28.

Schedule/Live Results
 
Competition at Virginia's Lannigan Field is set to begin at 11 a.m. ET. Live stats are available at flashresults.com.
 
"This is going to be the final meet for the majority of the team that's going to the Big 12 Championship," WVU coach Sean Cleary said. "We wanted to keep kids in school for as long as we could this week and get into a meet that's fairly close so they can get back, study, and be prepared for finals. This meet really fit those needs for us.
 
"It's an opportunity for some of the kids in the program to prove they belong at Big 12s, and for others, to stay sharp for the championship season. A couple kids in our program are still looking to either better secure their spot in the NCAA Championships, or actually earn their ticket. The weather looks to be good for us, so we're excited to head back down to a venue that we're familiar with."
 
The Mountaineers are one of 16 Division I schools competing at the Virginia Grand Prix. Other participating schools include Duke, NC State, North Carolina, Virginia, Wake Forest and others.
 
Three Mountaineers competed at the 2018 Penn Relays, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday night, as redshirt senior Amy Cashin broke her own school record in the women's 3,000-meter steeplechase. Cashin won the race, earning a personal-best time of 9:59.40 – the first Mountaineer to ever break the 10-minute barrier in the event.
 
The Werribee, Victoria, Australia, native topped her previous WVU-best time of 10:01.19 from 2017. Cashin also recorded the event's fourth-fastest time in Penn Relays history.
 
Joining Cashin at the Penn Relays were redshirt senior Maggie Drazba and redshirt freshman Sarah Wills, who competed in the women's 5,000 meters. Drazba (17:05.26) finished 31st in the event, while Wills (17:12.86) placed 36th.
 
WVU's first appearance in Charlottesville this outdoor season was at the Virginia Challenge, from April 20-21. The Mountaineers combined to earn 11 top-10 finishes at the two-day meet, highlighted by redshirt junior Madelin Gardner's school-record performance in the women's pole vault.
 
Gardner earned a personal-best mark of 4.41 meters (14 feet, 5.50 inches) in the women's pole vault invitational, taking down her previous WVU-best jump of 4.13 meters from the 2017 Virginia Challenge. The Williamstown, West Virginia, native finished second in the event.
 
The Mountaineers also registered several other second-place finishes last weekend, as Cashin placed second in the women's 1,500 meters invite (4:29.29), while Wills took second in the women's 1,500 meters (unseeded) in a personal-best 4:32.71. Freshman Ellie Gardner finished second in the women's pole vault (unseeded) with a jump of 3.71 meters (12 feet, 2 inches), while junior Faith Penny was the runner-up in the women's high jump with a mark of 1.61 meters (5 feet, 3.25 inches).
 
Additionally, junior Danique Bryan placed fifth in the women's triple jump invitational (12.58 meters – 41 feet, 3.25 inches), before she finished seventh in the women's long jump invitational (5.79 meters – 19 feet).
 
Saturday marks the second consecutive season in which WVU will make back-to-back trips to the home of the Cavaliers. At last season's Virginia Grand Prix, Cashin won the women's 1,500 meters in 4:21.18 to claim the Mountaineers' lone victory.
 
The squad also recorded two runner-up finishes in field events, as Marseille McBeam and Shamoya McNeil placed second in the high jump and triple jump, respectively.
 
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