NORMAL, IL., - Illinois State track & field is set to compete in three different meets on Feb. 3 and 4. A select group of Redbirds will travel to South Bend, Indiana for the Meyo Invite, hosted by Notre Dame. Additionally, a larger group of student-athletes will compete at the Keck Select, hosted by Illinois Wesleyan. Lastly, a group of multi student-athletes, will travel to Waverly, Iowa for the Wartburg Indoor Select.
MEYO INVITE
On Friday, a select group of student-athletes will travel to Notre Dame to compete in the two-day meet in South Bend, Indiana. The action will kick off Friday at 4:00 p.m. with women's long jump and women's shot put. The next field event the Redbirds will compete in is men's long jump at 6:30 p.m. On the track, events will start at 4:30 p.m., with women's 60-meter hurdles followed by men's 60-meter hurdles. Competition will continue through Saturday, starting at 11:00 a.m. with women's triple jump.
KECK SELECT
A larger group will compete at Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington, Illinois. Events at the Illinois Wesleyan Shirk Center for the Redbird squad will begin on Saturday at 10:45 a.m. beginning with women's and men's weight throw and women's long jump to follow. Track events will start at 11:30 a.m. with 5000 meters.
WARTBURG INDOOR SELECT
A group of Multis will compete at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa. The heptathlon will kick off on Friday at 3:00 p.m., with 60-meter dash with the long jump following. The pentathlon will begin at 3:30 p.m. with 60-meter hurdles. Competition will continue Saturday.
LAST TIME OUT
Redbirds had a solid weekend in Louisville, with multiple top-10 times and personal-best times/marks at the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational.
Women's distance medley squad, Rachel Hickey, San'Toria Harris, Mattison Plummer, and Caroline Meyersran a 11:43.64 time putting them sixth in program history.
Meyers also ran the 3000m where she ran a personal-best of 9:42.12 positioning herself in tenth on the top-10 list.
Women's 4 x 400 relay captured the eighth spot on the top-10 list as well. Student-athletes, Hassy Fashina-Bombata, Destiny White, Nnenna Okpara, and San'Toria Harris ran a 3:44.13. Men's 4 x 400 squad also stamped their name on the top-10 list, sitting at sixth. Raydoffa Braziel, Enyinnaya Nwagwu, Jaylin Holmes, and Junias Holmes ran a 3:14.07.
The Redbirds finished the PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational strong and plan on continuing that energy this weekend.
MEET INFORMATION
For those who can't attend the Larry Wieczorek Invite, follow along on Twitter at @RedbirdTFXC for updates and Instagram with story updates at @redbirdtfxc. Live results will also be available below.
Meyo Invite:
Live Results: https://bit.ly/3JwPU74
Keck Select:
Video link: http://bit.ly/3Rwd8MQ
Live Results: https://bit.ly/3YdzPqZ
Wartburg Indoor Select:
Live Results: https://bit.ly/3HsEteg
UP NEXT
The Redbirds will split squads again on Feb.10-11 to compete at Hoosier Hills Invite in Bloomington, Indiana, Valentine Invite in Boston, Massachusetts and Grand Valley State in Allendale, Michigan.
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