Track and Field Set for Jesse Owens Classic, Virginia Challenge

Friday, April 22

Columbus, Ohio

1 p.m.

Xavier University

Jesse Owens Classic

Track and Field Set for Jesse Owens Classic, Virginia Challenge

04.21.22 | Track and Field

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Xavier will compete at two meets on April 22-23

By: Greg Lautzenheiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier track and field continues its outdoor season at the Jesse Owens Classic on April 22-23. The two-day meet is being hosted by Ohio State at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium.

The Musketeers are also sending Rachel Butler to compete at the Virginia Challenge on April 22. The meet is being held at Lannigan Field in Charlottesville, Va. Butler will race in section two of the 5,000-meter run at 5:40 p.m.

JESSE OWENS CLASSIC

Heat Sheets: bit.ly/3L6MLJk
Meet Schedule: bit.ly/3Mg91jS
Live Results: bit.ly/3xOTJyV

PARTICIPATING TEAMS
Alleghany, Ashland, Baldwin Wallace, Ball State, Cedarville, Cleveland State, Denison, Eastern Michigan, Findlay, Franciscan (Ohio), Huntington, Indianapolis, IVC Elite, Kent State, Malone, Mount Union, Mount Vernon Nazarene, Northern Kentucky, Ohio, Ohio Christian, Ohio Dominican, Ohio Wesleyan, Otterbein, Roberts Wesleyan, Shawnee State, SISU, Southern Illinois, St. Vincent (Pa.), Walsh, Westminster (Pa.), Wheeling, Wilmington (Ohio), Wright State, Xavier, Youngstown State

VIRGINIA CHALLENGE

Heat Sheets: bit.ly/3ECPsj7
Meet Schedule: bit.ly/3xFcuEN
Live Results: bit.ly/3EBCL8l

PARTICIPATING TEAMS (SECTION TWO - W 5,000 METER RUN)
North Carolina, NC State, Elon, Syracuse, Siena, Princeton, Florida State, UConn, Ole Miss, Charlotte, High Point, James Madison, Harvard, Princeton, Toledo, Villanova, Northeastern, Wake Forest, Delaware, Cornell, Belmont, Xavier

2021 SPRING SCHEDULE

INDOOR SCHEDULE
Jan. 11 - Bellarmine Open - Louisville, Ky. - RECAP
Feb. 4 - PNC Bank Bellarmine Classic - Louisville, Ky. - RECAP
Feb. 18 - Al Campbell Invitational - Akron, Ohio - RECAP
Feb. 25-26 - BIG EAST Championships - Chicago, Ill. - RECAP

OUTDOOR SCHEDULE
March 18 - Blizzard Buster - Oxford, Ohio - RECAP
March 25-26 - Raleigh Relays - Raleigh, N.C. - RECAP
April 8-9 - Jim Vargo Invitational - Louisville, Ky. - RECAP
April 22-23 - Jesse Owens Invitational - Columbus, Ohio
April 22 - Virginia Challenge - Charlottesville, Va.
April 28-29 - Penn Relays - Philadelphia, Pa.
April 29 - Clark Wood Invitational - Louisville, Ky.
May 13-14 - BIG EAST Championships - Storrs, Conn.

LAST TIME OUT

• Xavier had six first-place finishes at the second annual Jim Vargo Invitational on April 8-9. All told, the Musketeers recorded 24 top-10 finishes at the meet. The meet was hosted by Bellarmine at Owsley B. Frazier Stadium in Louisville, Ky.

• On the women's side, Parker Hopkins (1,500-meter run), Haley Morgan (100-meter dash, 200-meter dash) and Claire Sievern (800-meter run) recorded first-place finishes. Trevor Nolan won the 3,000-meter steeplechase to pace the men's squad. The men's 4x400 team (Beam, Clines, Johnson, Thimons) also placed first.

BIG EAST TOP-20 PERFORMANCES

MEN
9. Trevor Nolan - 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:24.49)
12. Owen Ellington - 400-meter hurdles (1:07.68)
13. Lee Bennett - 100-meter dash (11.20)
16. Sean Beam - 400-meter dash (49.41)
19. Michael Henning - 100-meter dash (11.50)
19. Michael Henning - 200-meter dash (22.95)

WOMEN
8. Rachel Butler - 5,000-meter run (16:37.51)
9. Sydney Kapral - 3,000-meter run (10:55.86)
11. Hannah Doerger - 3,000-meter run (11:27.34)
11. Haley Morgan - 100-meter dash (12.20)
12. Haley Morgan - 200-meter dash (24.96)
12. Amanda MacKinnon - 400-meter hurdles (1:09.80)
16. Alaina Sullivan - 100-meter dash (12.38)
17. Courtney Klatt - 5,000-meter run (17:11.97)

2020-21 NOTABLES

• Xavier competed in six meets during the COVID-19 shortened 2020-21 season.

• The Musketeers had seven student-athletes post career-best finishes at the BIG EAST Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 14-15. The conference did not hold an indoor championship meet.

• The highlight of the BIG EAST Championships was the 4x800 relay team (Hannah Russell, Parker Hopkins, Abby Fioresi and Robyn Blackwell) breaking the school record in the event, posting a time of 9:04.59.

COACH BURROUGHS

• Sam Burroughs was named the new head coach for cross country/track and field on Jan. 4, 2021. He joined the Musketeers after previously working as associate head coach at Cincinnati from 2013-20.

• Burroughs has over 20 years of collegiate experience. He has coached 96 individual conference champions and 45 individual NCAA qualifiers, while leading 18 teams to conference championship titles.

LAUREN ETHERIDGE

• Lauren Etheridge was named assistant coach for the cross country and track and field programs in August of 2021. She was previously the head cross country coach at USC Aiken from 2019-21.

• In the spring of 2021, she guided the women's cross country team to an eighth-place finish at the Peach Belt Conference Championships – the team's highest finish since 2011. She restarted the program in 2019 after a one-year hiatus (the women did not have a team in 2018).

UP NEXT

• Xavier returns to action on April 28-29 at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pa. The Musketeers are also competing at the Clark Wood Invitational in Louisville, Ky. on April 29.