Below is the order of events for
Saturday’s Jay Carisella Invitational, a meet hosted by Northeastern University
but being held at the beautiful Boston University Track and Tennis Facility.
This meet is our only first-semester, pre-break meet of the indoor track
season. With final exams looming, our athletes need to focus all their
attention on academics, and squeezing another December meet out of them makes
little to no sense.
As the endless cycle of our sport
continues, I have to admit that I am really looking forward to the beginning of
track season. We were out at the Spackenkill High School track today on a nice
but chilly afternoon. The sprint/hurdle/jump crew that has been working hard
with Coach Horton over the past few months looks great, and we are excited to
see them in action. We have a lot of new faces; they have been guided by the
excellent leadership of our upperclass track athletes – men and women -- whose
enthusiasm and spirit in the face of our facility challenges never ceases to
amaze me, and it makes us really proud to coach them.
There will be a smattering of distance
runners at the meet for our program on Saturday. But really, this is a coming
out party – albeit a brief, one-day affair – for our track-only athletes who
have busted it since just after Labor Day. Not all of them are able to compete
for a variety of reasons, but most of them will be there. Should be fun.
Again, for those keeping score at
home, here’s the Saturday slate for all interested …
Running events:
9:45 AM Women’s 5k
10:15 AM Men’s 5k
10:35 AM 60m Women’s Hurdles – Trials
11:05 AM 60m Men’s Hurdles-
Trials
11:35 AM Women’s
Mile
12:05 AM Men’s Mile
12:35 AM 60m Women’s Dash –
Trials
12:55 PM 60m Men’s Dash- Trials
1:15 PM Women’s 400
1:35 PM Men’s 400
1:55 PM 60m Women’s Hurdles –
Finals
2:05 PM 60m Men’s 55m Hurdles –
Finals
2:10 PM Women’s 500
2:25 PM Men’s 500
2:40 PM 60m Women’s
Dash- Finals
2:45 PM 60m Men’s
Dash- Finals
2:50 PM Women’s 800
3:10 PM Men’s 800
3:25 PM Women’s 200
3:40 PM Men’s 200
4:00 PM Women’s
1000
4:15 PM Men’s 1000
4:30 PM Women’s
3000
5:00 PM Men’s 3000
5:30 PM Women’s
4x400
5:45
PM Men’s 4x400
Field Events:
9:30 AM Women’s
Long Jump
11:30 PM Men’s Long
Jump
1:30 PM Women’s
Triple Jump
3:30 PM Men’s
Triple Jump