Central Michigan University Athletics
Chippewas Open Outdoor Season at Raleigh Relays
3/25/2010 12:00:00 AM | MTF
MOUNT PLEASANT- The Central Michigan University track and field program will begin its outdoor season when it heads to the Raleigh Relays, hosted by North Carolina State this weekend.
The women’s team looks to build off a breakthrough indoor season that saw it finish runner-up at the Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships. The men’s team also looks to continue its progress and improve as a team and individually.
“My expectations are that we will pick up where we left off indoors, especially with the women. We’re looking to move forward and win a conference title. To do that, we need to come in with the right winning attitude mentally and physical,” head coach Willie Randolph said.
The Chippewas will look to achieve individual qualifiers for regional’s and nationals and look to compete more on that higher level.
Nice weather has allowed the program to get in a lot of outdoor training, something that will look to be beneficial this weekend.
"We came back ready to go and we have been training very hard and trying to take care of business," Randolph said.
The two-day meet starts ons Friday at 10 a.m. and resumes Saturday morning at 9:30 am.
Complete results will be available following both days at cmuchippewas.com
News and Notes:
Back to Back- Senior Erika Schroll once again captured the MAC title in the high jump, her jump of 5-10 1/2 earned her the title. Her indoor season was marked by a school-record leap of 6-0 1/2 in the high jump portion of the pentathlon at the MAC Indoor Championships. Schroll then moved on to the NCAA Nationals where she tied for eighth place but after a jump off finished 12th with her jump of 5-10.
Indoor Highlights- Besides Schroll's dominance in the high jump, several other Chippewas had tremendous indoor seasons. Shanaye Carr won her first individual MAC title by winning the 60m hurdles (8.49), Marcus Breidinger finished runner-up at the MAC Championships in the pole vault (16-6 3/4) to earn second-team all MAC honors, Raeanne Lohner earned a spot on the All-MAC second team after finishing runner-up in the 3000m (10:00.06) and the distance medley relay team of Lohner, Danielle Dakroub, Sarah Squires and Alexandra Sisson took runner-up with a time of 11:47.94.
