The Eastern Michigan University Track and Field teams completed another meet in their outdoor season, with the Eagles going to two different locations, Tucson, Arizona, and East Lansing, Michigan.
While some of Eastern’s athletes went to the Spartan Invitational, a majority went to the Jim Click Invitational.
The Eagles had 48 different personal bests for athletes over a total of 65 events that the Green and White participated in. They went on to finish in 4th place in Tucson, and two first place finishes in East Lansing.
Spartan Invitational:
A bunch of schools around the state and region participated in this meet, and it had a total of 51 different events.
Eastern Michigan had 12 athletes make the 60-mile trip directly east of the state capital, with Elena Wheeler (Livonia, Mich.), Savanna Owens (Mears, Mich.), Destiny Rose (Boerne, Texas), Cara Weber (Union, Ky.), Eva Orlich (San Jose, Costa Rica), Julie Sabo (Luckey, Ohio), Nene Garner (Powell, Ohio), Nicolette Lewis (Douglasville, Ga.), and Olivia Szylar (Itasca, Ill.) posting personal bests in their respective events.
Of these results, Wheeler won the 800-meter unseeded section for the women, finishing with a time of 2:28.21. The only other first place finisher the Eagles had in any event in East Lansing was Joey Furlong (Deer Park, Ill.) who clocked a time of 14:58.04 in the men’s 5,000 meters.
Jim Click Invitational:
This was a much bigger event than the Spartan Invitational, and Eastern Michigan sent a majority of their team to this meet. The Eagles had a total of 17 athletes smash personal outdoor best in Tucson.
Athletes who set personal bests in this meet include Maleah Scott (Farmington, Minn.), Miranda Cadwell (Plainfield, Ill.), Aleah Johnson (Batkins, Ohio), Safeya Wilcock (Kingston, Jamaica), Erica King, Megan Rybitski (Dayton, Ohio), Mariia Yelanska (Dnipro, Ukraine), Nikol Antoniadi (Didimoticho, Greece), Anita Zaro (Timișoara, Romania), Esme Davies (Lake District, England), Josephine Oloye (Iwaro-Oka, Nigeria), Ryan Johnson (Springboro, Ohio), Cason Doolittle (Findlay, Ohio), Samuel Jeffrey (Fonthill, Ontario), Formula Thompson (St. Catherine, Jamaica), Sam Peterson (Charveloix, Mich.), Ronnie Brandal (Huron, Ohio), and Linus Vennemann (Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany).
The highlight of the day for the Eagles would be Cadwell's performance as she would set a school record toss of 62.01m in the hammer throw.
The Eagles did not have any first-place finishers in the Tucson event, but they did have five second-place finishers for the day, which included Davies in the women’s 3000 at 9:39.57, Kyra Buffen (Columbus, Ga.) with a 12.31m triple jump, Vennemann with a 9:20.46 steeplechase and an 8:41.48 3,000 meter, and Brandal with a 1:48.47 800 meter time.
Up Next:
Eastern Michigan will travel up to Central Michigan for the Chippewa Challenge meet on Friday, April 12.
For more information on the Eastern Michigan University Track and Field program, you can visit the Echo’s website.