Musketeers Set for BIG EAST Championships on May 13-14

Friday, May 13

Storrs, Conn.

2 p.m.

Xavier University

BIG EAST Championships

Musketeers Set for BIG EAST Championships on May 13-14

05.12.22 | Track and Field

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The two-day meet is being hosted by UConn at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex

By: Xavier Athletic Communications

CINCINNATI - Xavier track and field travels to the BIG EAST Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 13-14. The two-day meet is being hosted by UConn at the George J. Sherman Family Sports Complex.

BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIPS

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LAST TIME OUT

• Xavier competed at the Clark Wood Invitational on April 29-30 in Louisville, Ky. All told, Xavier combined to post 10 top-10 finishes at the meet. Haley Morgan also set a new school record in the 100-meter dash (12.04). The previous time of 12.07 was set by Maggie Barrie in 2015 at the Rankin Invitational.

• Rachel Butler also set the school record in the 10,000-meter run at the Penn Relays at Franklin Field on April 28. She placed fourth in the race, posting a time of 34:07.02. She was racing in the 10,000-meter run at a track meet for the first time in her career. The previous record was held by Clare Fischer who posted a time of 34:21.20 at the 2014 Mt. SAC Relays.

BIG EAST TOP-20 PERFORMANCES

MEN
13. Trevor Nolan - 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:24.49)
15. Owen Ellington - 400-meter hurdles (1:07.68)
16. Lee Bennett - 100-meter dash (11.19)
18. Sean Beam - 400-meter dash (49.41)
19. Jeremy Johnson - 100-meter dash (11.36)

WOMEN
4. Rachel Butler - 10,000-meter run (34:07.02)
8. Rachel Butler - 5,000-meter run (16:19.82)
9. Haley Morgan - 100-meter dash (12.01)
10. Alaina Sullivan - 100-meter dash (12.04)
12. Sydney Kapral - 3,000-meter run (10:55.86)
12. Amanda MacKinnon - 400-meter hurdles (1:08.73)
13. Claire Sievern - 800-meter run (2:11.05)
14. Haley Morgan - 200-meter dash (24.78)
17. Alaina Sullivan - 200-meter dash (25.04)
20. Hannah Doerger - 3,000-meter run (11:27.34)

UP NEXT

• The NCAA East Prelims are set for May 25-28 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind.

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. - RECAP
April 29 - Clark Wood Invitational - Louisville, Ky. - RECAP
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).