CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- App State women's track & field will compete on Friday and Saturday at the Charlotte Invitational in its final meet before the Sun Belt Championships. Friday's events begin at 3 p.m. and Saturday's events start at 11 a.m.
LAST TIME OUT
App State competed at the USC Open last weekend, seeing three athletes post top 10 program marks:
- Taylor Smith entered the top 10 in program history in the long jump. She won the event by over four inches with a PR mark of 19-6.75 (5.96m). Her mark now sits eighth all-time in program history in the long jump.
- Maya Hanks also added her name to the top-10 list in the triple jump. She covered a PR mark of 41-7.00 (12.67m) to finish second in the event and now sits tied for sixth in the event in program history. Her mark also sits 26th in the NCAA East Region, with the top 32 inividuals advancing to the NCAA East Preliminary Round in Jacksonville, Fla. from May 27 to May 29.
- Lisha Van Onselen competed in the 3,000-meter run and finished third with a PR time of 10:07.27 to enter the record book. Her time sits as the ninth fastest time in the event in program history.
- Taylor Smith also teamed with Jelonnie Smith, Samara Gibson and LaBria King for a third-place finish in the 4x100-meter relay. The tandem's time of 45.75 seconds marks a season-best for the Mountaineers.
- Also in the long jump, Djamila Petersen covered a PR mark of 18-0.50 (5.50m) to place sixth and Nevaeh Haddock was right behind in seventh with a distance of 17-9.75 (5.43m).
- King also recorded a seventh-place finish in the 200-meter dash with a season-best time of 24.56 seconds and Celia Agee cleared 11-3.75 (3.45m) in the pole vault to finish in a tie for eighth. Madison McCoy also had an eighth-place finish in the discus, covering 137-11 (42.04m).
SUN BELT RANKINGS
App State has nine marks in the top eight of the conference with one meet remaining:
UP NEXT
App State will compete at the Sun Belt Championships in Mobile, Ala. from May 13 to May 15.
