TENNESSEE 2011 TRACK & FIELD 22011011 TENNESSEETENNESSEE A LOOK AT THIS WEEK’S MEET... TTRACKRACK & FFIELDIELD SSCHEDULECHEDULE VANDERBILT INVITATIONAL April 22-23, 2011 * Nashville, Tenn. INDOOR UCSD TRITON INVITATIONAL April 22-23, 2011 * LaJolla, Calif. DATE DAY MEET SITE TIME Jan. 14-15 Fri.-Sat. Kentucky Invitational Lexington, Ky. All Day TENNESSEE FACING SPLIT-SQUAD WEEKEND Jan. 21-22 Fri-Sat. Hokie Invitational Blacksburg, Va. All Day * The Tennessee men’s and women’s track & fi eld teams will split Jan. 28-29 Fri.-Sat. Penn State National University Park, Pa. All Day up and participate in two different meets this weekend, April 22-23. Jan. 28-29 Fri.-Sat. Rod McCravy Memorial Lexington, Ky. All Day * A group of UT athletes will head to Nashville to compete in the Feb. 4-5 Fri.-Sat. New Balance Coll. Inv. New York, N.Y. All Day Vanderbilt Invitational on Friday and Saturday. The travel squad to Feb. 11 Fri. Husky Classic (#) Seattle, Wash. All Day Music City consists of men’s and women’s jumpers and sprinters. * Heading west to LaJolla, Calif., for the UCSD Triton Invitational, April Feb. 12 Sat. Texas A&M Challenge Coll. Station, Texas Noon CT 22-23, will be the Big Orange throws corps. Feb. 25-27 Fri.-Sun. SEC Championships Fayetteville, Ark. All Day March 11-12 Fri.-Sat. NCAA Championships Coll. Station, Texas All Day UCSD TRITON INVITATIONAL * The UCSD Triton Invitational will feature nearly 1,500 entries from around the nation and world. * Action runs from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Pacifi c time (1 p.m - 9:30 p.m. OUTDOOR ET) on Friday and from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT (4-10 p.m. ET) on Saturday. * Among the schools represented will be Tennessee, Arizona, Arizona DATE DAY MEET SITE TIME State, Kentucky, Stanford, UCLA and Wisconsin, along with several March 25-26 Fri.-Sat. UCF Inv. Orlando, Fla. All Day in-state schools, including Cal Poly, San Diego State and UC Santa Barbara. March 25-26 Fri.-Sat. Stanford Inv. (#) Stanford, Calif. All Day * Several individual standouts are expected to be on hand, includ- April 2 Sat. UCLA Dual Los Angeles, Calif. All Day ing 2008 Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Trafton and American APRIL 13-16 WED.-SAT. SEA RAY RELAYS KNOXVILLE ALL DAY record holder Suzy Powell, both of whom will be competing in the April 22-23 Fri.-Sat. Vanderbilt Invitational Nashville, Tenn. All Day women’s discus. * The women’s shot put fi eld will feature Germany’s Nadine Kleinart, April 22-23 Fri.-Sat. UCSD Triton Inv. (#) LaJolla, Calif. All Day who took silver at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, while U.S. Olympian April 28-30 Thu.-Sat. Penn Relays Philadelphia, Pa. All Day Jessica Cosby will compete in the women’s hammer throw. April 28-30 Thu.-Sat. Drake Relays Des Moines, Iowa All Day * On the men’s side, 2008 U.S. Olympian Mike Hazle will take part May 12-15 Thu.-Sun. SEC Championships Athens, Ga. All Day in the javelin, while Rutger Smith and Jarred Rome are among the May 26-28 Thu.-Sat. NCAA East Preliminary Rd. Bloomington, Ind. All Day competitors in the discus. Smith won a bronze medal for the Neth- erlands at the 2007 World Championships and Rome represented June 8-11 Wed.-Sat. NCAA Championships Des Moines, Iowa All Day the United States at the World Championships in 2008. VANDERBILT INVITATIONAL (#) Select Events Only / All Dates Are Subject To Change * Teams from around the region will be on hand at the Vanderbilt Invitational for a meet that tentatively runs from 3 to 9 p.m. Central time (4-10 p.m. ET) on Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. CT (11 a.m.-5 p.m. ET) on Saturday. FFOLLOWOLLOW UTUT TRACKTRACK & FFIELDIELD LIVE RESULTS FROM THE MEETS * Live results links have not been confi rmed for either meet this OONN TWITTER...TWITTER... weekend. Once results are sent to Tennessee track & fi eld media relations contact Eric Trainer, meet recaps will be written each day and sent out to the media along with results. That information also LADY VOLS will be posted on www.utsports.com and www.utladyvols.com. Internet: www.utladyvols.com USING TWITTER TO FOLLOW THE VOLS & LADY VOLS Twitter: www.twitter.com/LadyVol_Track (NEW!) * Be sure to follow Tennessee track & fi eld on Twitter: @Vol_Track Facebook: www.facebook.com/tennesseeathletics and @LadyVol_Track. VOLS CARIFTA GAMES FOR OUTERBRIDGE * Lady Vol triple jumper Allison Outerbridge is among 38 athletes Internet: www.utsports.com from her native Bermuda who will be competing in the 2011 Carifta Twitter: www.twitter.com/Vol_Track (NEW!) Games in Montego Bay, Jamaica, April 23-25. Facebook: www.facebook.com/tennesseeathletics * Outerbridge, a freshman from Sandys, Bermuda, will take part in the 40th edition of the event, which is an annual athletics competi- tion founded by the Caribbean Free Trade Association. She was a bronze medalist in the 2010 Games, leaping 39-8 1/2. * Countries eligible to compete in the Carifta Games are Anguilla, Haiti, Antigua & Barbuda, Jamaica, Aruba, Martinique, Bahamas, indoor season at No. 7. Montserrat, Barbados, Netherlands Antilles, Bermuda, St. Kitts & * The UT men have not cracked the top 25 in 2011. Nevis, British Virgin Islands, St. Lucia, Cayman Islands, St. Vincent & The Grenadines, Dominica, Suriname, French Guyana, Trinidad & SALUTING THE BIG ORANGE SENIORS Tobago, Grenada, Turks & Caicos Islands, Guadeloupe, U.S. Virgin * On April 16, on the fi nal day of the Sea Ray Relays, 12 Tennessee Islands and Guyana. seniors were honored on the track prior to competing in their fi nal home meet of the season. VOL EXCHANGE ZONE * Lady Vols honored included Liz Costello, Holly Kane, Jená Murphy, * Football/track Vols Justin Hunter and Matt Darr have rejoined the Brittany Napoli and Kim White. team this week and are slated to compete immediately. * Vol seniors who were recognized included Alan Bachman, Minor * They had been participating in spring drills on the gridiron and Bowens, Nathan Grace, Chris Rapp, Eric Ryan, Peter Sigilai and Mi- completed those responsibilities on April 16 with the Dish Network chael Spooner. Orange and White Game. * Hunter will travel to Nashville and is expected to compete in the REMEMBERING UT NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS long, triple and high jumps at the Vanderbilt Invitational on Friday * In addition to celebrating the 45th year of hosting the Sea Ray and Saturday. Relays, Tennessee is keeping in mind the accomplishments of three * Darr will head to his home state of California to take part in the national championship teams this season. UCSD Triton Invitational this weekend. He is slated to throw the shot * This season marks the 30-year anniversary of the Lady Vols’ 1981 and discus. AIAW Outdoor National Championship. That victory, which took place * Another two-sport man, tight end/thrower Ben Bartholomew, is in Austin, Texas, was the fi rst-ever national team title by a women’s redshirting for the outdoor track season. athletics program at the University of Tennessee. * Redshirt freshman sprinter Dentarius Locke, like most of his cohorts * It marks the 20th anniversary of UT’s men winning the 1991 NCAA in the Vol sprint corps, will have the weekend off. Outdoor Championship meet in Eugene, Ore. * Locke was not expected to run at last weekend’s Sea Ray Relays, * The current campaign also marks the 10th year since the Vols but the short sprint specialist wound up logging a career-best time celebrated a triumph at the 2001 NCAA Outdoor Championship of 47.61 in the 400-meter dash to place fi fth. meet in Eugene. * Locke has the team’s top times in the 100m (10.29) and 200m (20.81) dashes. SEA RAY RELAYS RECAP * Freshman Jake Rainey currently owns the Vols’ top season marks * Tennessee won 11 events at the Sea Ray Relays, April 13-16. in the 3000m (8:29.78) and 5000m (14:51.66). * The 13th-ranked Lady Vols claimed individual crowns in the shot * Joe Berry’s mark of 17-0 3/4 continues to rank him third in the put (Annie Alexander), invitational discus (Alexander), 400m hurdles SEC this season. (Ellen Wortham), Invitational 800m (Chanelle Price) and 5000m (Liz * Michael Spooner (29:45.61) and Chris Bodary (30:00.33) continue Costello) as well a baton-event titles in the shuttle hurdle, 4x100m, to rank No. 2 and No. 3 in the SEC, respectively, in the 10,000 meters. 4x400m and distance medley relays. * The Vols got a triumph from Peter Sigilai in the Invitational 1500 LADY VOL EXCHANGE ZONE meters and a win in the 4x400m relay. * Juniors Annie Alexander (shot put, 57-9 3/4) and Ellen Wortham * Annie Alexander, who won her second Sea Ray Relays discus title (400mH, 56.62) each rank No. 2 in the NCAA this season in those and third shot put crown at the meet, was named the Tony Wilson events. Award winner as the top female fi eld events competitor. She also * They were named Tony Wilson Award winners for women’s fi eld won the award while competing unattached in 2010. events and women’s running events, respectively, at the Sea Ray * Ellen Wortham, meanwhile, was chosen for the Tony Wilson Award Relays. for women’s running events. She won the 400m hurdles for the sec- * Alexander’s mark in the shot (57-9 3/4), which she recorded at the ond straight season, fi nished fi fth in the 100m hurdles and chipped UT-UCLA Dual, broke her 2008 school record of 57-3.