Information on first meet of the track season

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