Track & Field Resumes Outdoor Action at Cincinnati

Samantha Kennedy won the women's javelin at the meet in 2013.

Track & Field Resumes Outdoor Action at Cincinnati

3/26/2014 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field

March 26, 2014

2014 Oliver Nikoloff Invitational
Gettler Stadium/Coy Field | Cincinnati, Ohio
Friday-Saturday, March 28-29
Meet Information

MILWAUKEE - The Marquette University men's and women's track and field teams resume the outdoor season on Friday, March 28 at the University of Cincinnati's Oliver Nikoloff Invitational. The meet will be competed at Gettler Stadium and runs from noon Central time Friday through its conclusion at roughly 3:30 p.m. Saturday.

"The team is excited to be back in action this weekend," Marquette head coach Bert Rogers said. "This is the first full-team meet since BIG EAST Indoors. Indoors is fun, but there is something special about getting outdoors."

Events kick off with the women's hammer throw at noon CT on Friday at Coy Field, an event in which senior Kristen Gaffey and junior Samantha Kennedy will compete. Kennedy won the javelin at the same meet last year and picked up her first victory of this outdoor campaign in the hammer by tying her personal best at the USF Invitational on Thursday, March 13.

The men's hammer is scheduled to follow at 2 p.m. CT and will see redshirt junior Bret Hardin, senior Patrick Stuart and freshman Joel McBride compete.

The men's and women's 10,000-meter runs are the lone events slated for the track on Friday with four MU women and two men registered.

Freshman John Krzyszkowski begins action on Saturday at 9 p.m. CT from Coy Field in the javelin. Krzyszkowski broke Marquette's program record to win the event in his first collegiate meet at the USF Invitational and has his eyes set on bigger marks this weekend.

The final field event is slated to take place with the women's high jump at 1:30 pm. CT and track events will run through the women's 4x400-meter relay at 3:24 p.m. CT.

Marquette's Meet Entries:

WOMEN
Sarah Ball - Steeplechase
Bridget Bodee - High Jump
Abby Busse - Steeplechase
Tammi Del Ponte - 10,000m
Nicole Ethier - 800m, 4x400m pool
Brittney Feivor - 5000m
Hannah Frett - 10,000m
Kristen Gaffey - Shot Put, Discus, Hammer
Kellie Greenwood - 5000m
Kate Hein - 400m, 4x400m pool
Gretchen Homan - 400m, 4x400m pool
Nicole Jaffke - Pole Vault
Katie Kemmerer - 400m, 4x400m pool
Samantha Kennedy - Hammer, Javelin
Kathryn Koeck
Haley Loprieno - 1500m, 4x400m pool
Grace Magliola - 800m, 4x400m pool
Krista McClure - 800m, 4x400m pool
Elisia Meyle - 10,000m
Maggie O'Loughlin - 5000m
Rebecca Pachuta - 10,000m
Alison Parker - 1500m, 4x400m pool
Tatyana Pashibin - 100 Hurdles, High Jump, Long Jump
Lindsay Smoljan - Pole Vault
Kayla Spencer - 5000m
Anna Strong - 400m, 4x400m pool
Arra Strong - 100m, 200m, 4x400m pool
Katie Tolan - 800m
Omo Tseumah - High Jump
Kirsten Walker - Shot Put, Discus

MEN
Oumaru Abdulahi - High Jump, Long Jump
Spencer Agnew - 5000m
Brandon Bell - 100m, 200m, 4x400m pool
Patrick Campbell - 5000m
Michael Corr - 1500m, 4x400m pool
Marc DiVerde - Steeplechase
Brendan Franz - 800m, 4x400m pool
Nate Gomoll - 1500m
Cody Haberkorn - 10,000m
Bret Hardin - Hammer, Shot Put
William Hennessy - Steeplechase
Ryan Kaestner - 10,000m
John Kaplan - Pole Vault
John Krzyszkowski - Javelin
Glenn Lawrence Jr. - 100m, 200m, 4x400m pool
Blake Lawson - 10,000m
Vinny Martello - Pole Vault
Joel McBride - Discus, Hammer
D.T. McDonald - 800m, 4x400m pool
Carson Meinholz - 100m, 200m, 4x400m pool
Mark Norland - 800m, 4x400m pool
Anton Rice - 800m, 4x400m pool
David Sajdak - Steeplechase
Jack Senefeld
Ryan Shields - Steeplechase
Jordan Smith - 400m, Long Jump, 4x400m pool
Patrick Stuart - Shot Put, Discus, Hammer
Joel Swanberg - 110 Hurdles, High Jump, Pole Vault
Brett Tobin - Long Jump, Triple jump
Christian Zambrano - 1500m