Xavier Travels to Clark Wood Invitational

Friday, April 29

Louisville, Ky.

4:30 p.m.

Xavier University

Clark Wood Invitational

04.28.22 | Track and Field

Meet Schedule (PDF)Performance List (PDF)

The two-day meet is being hosted by Louisville at Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park

By: Greg Lautzenheiser, Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier track and field travels to the Clark Wood Invitational on April 29-30. The two-day meet is being hosted by Louisville at Owsley B. Frazier Cardinal Park.

CLARK WOOD INVITATIONAL

Performance List: bit.ly/3kss6n3
Heat Sheets: bit.ly/3EYsiE9
Meet Schedule: bit.ly/3Kxo9sc
Live Results: bit.ly/3kkndfW

PARTICIPATING TEAMS
Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Bowling Green, Bellarmine, Cincinnati, Southern Illinois, Eastern Kentucky, DePaul, Akron, Louisville, Quincy, Illinois State, Loyola (IL), Morehead State, Xavier

LAST TIME OUT

• Xavier competed at the Jesse Owens Classic on April 22-23. The two-day meet was hosted by Ohio State at Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium. A total of 13 student-athletes who placed in the top-10 of their respective heats posted personal-best times.

•Rachel Butler also broke the school record in the 5,000-meter at the Virginia Challenge on Friday, April 22. The meet was hosted by Virginia at Lannigan Field. Butler placed third in the event, posting a time of 16:19.82. The previous record was set by Ashley Vincent in 2012 at the Stanford Invitational (16:34.74).

BIG EAST TOP-20 PERFORMANCES

MEN
12. Trevor Nolan - 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:24.49)
15. Owen Ellington - 400-meter hurdles (1:07.68)
16. Lee Bennett - 100-meter dash (11.20)
17. Sean Beam - 400-meter dash (49.41)
19. Jeremy Johnson - 100-meter dash (11.36)

WOMEN
7. Rachel Butler - 5,000-meter run (16:19.82)
8. Alaina Sullivan - 100-meter dash (12.04)
9. Haley Morgan - 100-meter dash (12.08)
11. Sydney Kapral - 3,000-meter run (10:55.86)
12. Amanda MacKinnon - 400-meter hurdles (1:09.80)
14. Haley Morgan - 200-meter dash (24.96)
16. Alaina Sullivan - 200-meter dash (25.04)
17. Claire Sievern - 800-meter run (2:12.50)
18. Hannah Doerger - 3,000-meter run (11:27.34)
19. Courtney Klatt - 1,500-meter run (4:27.50)
20. Courtney Klatt - 5,000-meter run (17:11.97)

UP NEXT

• The Musketeers compete at the BIG EAST Championships on May 13-14 in Storrs, Conn.

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 - RECAP
April 22 - Virginia Challenge - Charlottesville, Va. - RECAP
April 28 - Penn Relays - Philadelphia, Pa.
April 29 - Clark Wood Invitational - Louisville, Ky.
May 13-14 - BIG EAST Championships - Storrs, Conn.

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).