indiana track2010 & INDIANA f TRACKield & FIELD MEDIA RElationS • kYLE JOHNSON, STAff ASSISTANT E-MAIL - [email protected] • OffIcE - (812) 856-0948 • IUHOOSIERS.cOM INDOOR SCHEDULE JAN. 22-23, 2010 • GLADSTEIN INVITATIONAL Keep track of the Hoosiers at 1/9/10 INDIANA OPEN NTS 1/16/10 vs. PURDUE M: Win, 96-40. W: Win, 93-43 1/22-23/10 GLADSTEIN INVITATIONAL Bloomington WHAT: GLADSTEIN INVITATIONAL I1/29-30/10 ndooR SChedINDIANAule RELAYS Bloomington 2/5-6/10 Meyo Invitational South Bend, Ind. 2/12/10 HOOSIER HILLS Bloomington WHEN: JAN. 22-23, 2010 2/12-13/10 Tyson Invitational Fayetteville, Ark. 2/26-28/10 Big Ten Champ. W - University Park, Pa. M - Minneapolis, Minn. WHERE: BLOOMINGTON, IND. 3/5-6/10 Alex Wilson Invitational South Bend, Ind. Gladstein Fieldhouse 3/5-6/10 NCAA Champ. Fayetteville, Ark. HOME meets in All Caps USTFCCCA NATIONAL TOP 25 SETTING THE SCENE DIVISION I WOMEN: DIVISION I MEN: The Gladstein Invitational is the largest meet of the season to date for the Hoosiers. The two-day meet will Rank Team 09 Rk. Rank Team 09 Rk. feature combined events and invitational sections. Invitational races have been grouped together for the ease 1 Texas A&M 2 1 FLORIdA STATe 3 of spectators. The meet will feature 13 schools, 8 clubs or professional organizations, over 780 athletes and 2 ORegon 9 2 FLORIdA 2 two Beijing Olympians (Hyleas Fountain and Mary Wineberg). Combined events will begin at noon ET on Friday, 3 Lsu 6 3 ORegON 1 4 Florida State 8 4 NeBRASkA 5 Jan. 22 and regular competition will start at 3:20 p.m. Saturday will see competition begin at 10 a.m. ET with 5 ByU 3 5 ARkANSAS 8 combined events again starting things off and regular competition beginning at 11 a.m. 6 FloridA 12 6 OkLAhOMA 16 This meet saw Hoosiers record two provisional qualifications, a school record and a facility record last season. 7 South Carolina 12 7 ARIZONA STATe 5 Molly Beckwith ran what was then the fastest 600 meters ever for IU and Gladstein Fieldhouse. 8 Washington -- 8 TexAS A&M 9 9 CLemson -- 9 LSU 4 IUHoosiers.com is host to live results, meet information and much more. 10 Penn State 7 10 MINNeSOTA 14 11 NebraskA -- 11 BAyLOR 5 LAST TIME OUT 12 Tennessee 1 12 SOUTh CAROLINA 20 13 Virginia TeCh -- 13 VIRgINIA TeCh 22 14 Connecticut -- 14 TexAS TeCh 13 Indiana dominated from start to finish, beating Purdue on Saturday. The men’s team, lead by NCAA provisional 15 Texas 4 15 AUBURN -- qualifying performances from sophomores Derek Drouin and Olumide Olamigoke and senior Jeff Coover, won by 16 BAylor -- 16 STANFORd 11 a 96-40 score. The women were just as dominant, winning 93-43 behind NCAA leading marks from senior Ashley 17 ARkansas 20 17 keNTUCky 19 Rhoades and junior Faith Sherrill. Hoosiers won all but eight of the 30 events on the day. 18 Louisville 22 18 WAShINgTON ST. -- Rhoades moved to within one centimeter of the NCAA automatic qualifying mark with her school-record 19 Illinois -- 19 geORgIA -- 20 INdiana State 22 20 CALIFORNIA 12 performance in the high jump. Her clearance of 1.84m (6-0.5) made her the first female to ever clear six-feet for 21 Oklahoma -- 21 OkLAhOMA STATe -- IU. She improved her career marks by two inches and breaks a Hoosier record that stood for 13 years. 22 West Virginia -- 22 kANSAS STATe 16 Olamigoke posted his first career provisional mark to win the triple jump. He hopped, skipped and jumped 23 S. Illinois -- 23 NeW MexICO 16 15.48m (50-9.5), good for ninth in the impressive IU triple jump records. His jump is among the top-five in Division 24 North Carolina 12 24 WISCONSIN -- I this season. 25 UTeP -- 25 kANSAS -- Sherrill recorded a heave of 16.80m (55-1.5), improving her national-leading mark and moving to within 10 centimeters of the NCAA automatic standard. She finished nearly six feet ahead of her closest competitor. Latest Rankings Release: Jan. 5 Next Rankings Release: Jan. 26 Coover cleared 5.41m (17-9.25) to improve his provisional mark. He added five centimeters to his season best and is now within four of his career mark. Coover was 4.25 inches better than the second-place vaulter, Eric Sparks of Purdue. CONTENTS Drouin cleared 2.17m (7-1.5) for a 1.25 inch victory over the field. Drouin posted an automatic qualifying mark Pages 1-3 - Notes at the Indiana Open. Page 4-5 - Meet Schedule Pages 6-7 - Rosters/Quick Facts Page 8 - Ron Helmer MEDIA INFORMATION Pages 9-10 - Indoor Records Pages 11-12 - Indoor Bests Media Relations Staff Assistant Kyle Johnson is the primary contact for Indiana track and field. All interviews and photography of Indiana track and field should be set up through Johnson. He can be reached in his office (812-856-0948), on his cell phone (765-212-0592) or via e-mail ([email protected]). Gladstein Invitational • Jan. 22-23 • Page 1 AIR CANADA COOV JUMPS SMOOV BIG TEN HONORS TWO Sophomore Derek Drouin began the 2010 indoor cam- Senior Jeff Coover holds the nation’s fourth-best mark Indiana sophomore Derek Drouin and junior Faith paign with a pair of top-three finishes at the Indiana Open in the pole vault, having cleared 5.41m (17-9) in the dual Sherrill2010 both INDIANAwere named TRACKas field athletes & FIELD of the week onKeep Saturday, track posting of thetwo careerHoosiers bests andat an NCAA auto- meet with Purdue. He sits just four centimeters from his when the Big Ten conference office announced on Jan. 11, matic qualifying mark. The Corunna, Ontario, native cleared career best from last season. Coover is now eight inches the first weekly indoor track and field awards of the season. 2.24 meters (7-4.25) in the high jump - the best mark in the better than the provisional standard and 3.5 inches away The awards were for meets between January 4-10. Both nation so far this indoor season. The jump sits just one from the automatic standard. student-athletes claimed the prize for the first time in their centimeter shy of the IU school record and is 6 centimeters Coover cleared 5.36m (17-7) to win the pole vault at career. (2.5”) better than his previous high in the event set last year. the Indiana Open. His mark was the first provisional qualifi- Indiana track and field director and head coach Ron The height is an automatic NCAA qualifying mark and cation in Division I this season. Coover was more than half a Helmer was very pleased with the performance of the two was 8.5 inches better than the next best competitor in the meter better than the second place finisher. honorees at the Indiana Open and the commitment they event. Drouin completed the day by posting a career best in have made to improving. the long jump, claiming third in the event with a leap of 7.08 BECKWITH IS BEST IN BIG TEN AND D1 “With both Derek and Faith, the effort put into off- meters (23-2.75), bettering his previous best by 60 centime- Senior Molly Beckwith blazed to a time of 2:06.78 in season preparation is paying off,” Helmer said, “which is ters (1-11.5). the 800m, nearly nine seconds ahead of the field. Her time evidenced by the quality of marks that they were able to For his efforts at the Indiana Open, the Big Ten con- was the first provisional in Division I this season and is cur- record on Saturday.” ference named him Big Ten Field Athlete of the week. The rently atop the national list. Beckwith picks up right where award marks the first weekly laurel for Drouin’s career and she left off last season, as she posted a season best and IU BACK IN CRIMSON is the first accolade for an Indiana men’s field athlete since record 2:05.55 in 2009. Since his arrival at Indiana in 2007, Ron Helmer has senior Jeff Coover won the award two weeks in a row last Beckwith posted wins in the mile and 800 against routinely redshirted talented athletes, including upperclass- season. Purdue. Beckwith was just 1.08 seconds off the provisional men, to help them develop. Several Hoosiers will compete Drouin added another notch to his belt this season, standard in the mile in what was her first collegiate mile, in cream and crimson this season after donning the redshirt posting the team’s best 60m hurdle time of the season finishing in 4:48.08. The time is the sixth-fastest in school in 2009 against Purdue. His time of 8.20 seconds is the sixth-fastest history. Faith Sherrill redshirted during indoor and outdoor in school history. last season after a breakout campaign in 2008. Sherill will THE RHOADES TO FAYETTEVILLE look to pick up where she left off, as she advanced to the GOTTA HAVE FAITH, AT NCAAS In the dual with Purdue, senior Ashley Rhoades NCAA Regional in 2008. Junior Faith Sherrill opened the 2010 indoor cam- proved to be the story of the day, breaking the IU indoor high Indiana’s distance corps on the men’s side took a hit in paign with a bang at the Indiana Open by breaking an IU jump record by becoming the first female Hoosier to clear six 2009, as six of the IU runners redshirted at least one season.