Big Meets On Tap For Track & Field
4/21/2016 12:00:00 AM | Track & Field
Andy Sneddon, CMUChippewas.com
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - The weather gets better, the meets get bigger, the competition gets stiffer.
Central Michigan will compete this weekend in the 31st Jesse Owens Track & Field Classic at Ohio State's Jesse Owens Memorial Track.
Three Chippewa distance runners, Kelly Schubert, Kirsten Olling and Nate Ghena, will run this weekend at the Virgina Challenge at the University of Virginia. All three will run in the 10,000 meters.
"At 10K, you only get one or two chances the whole season to get a mark to get you to the first round (of the NCAA)," CMU director of track and field Mark Guthrie said. "It's going to be a great field."
The Chippewas will compete with student-athletes representing some 40 colleges and universities, including a number from the Mid-American Conference, at the Jesse Owens Classic.
CMU finished first, in both genders, last weekend at the Oakland University Golden Grizzly Invitational.
"We performed well last weekend," Guthrie said. "Now can we do it against high-level competition in the heat of the battle? Can we still perform at that same level or better? That's what we're looking for.
"If we're going to continue to get better, we have to be good at meets like this. It's going to kind of tell us what we're going to be like at the conference meet."
The Chippewas are scheduled to partake next weekend in three meets: the Penn Relays, the Drake Relays, and at the Gina Relays at Hillsdale College.
