Bulldogs Set for Split Meet Weekend

Friday, April 16

Auburn, Ala.

All Day

Mississippi State

War Eagle Invite (O)

STARKVILLE, MS - 2021.03.26 - Al Schmidt Bulldog Relays

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Bulldogs Set for Split Meet Weekend

April 15, 2021 | Track & Field

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The Dawgs will be headed to both Auburn and Virginia from April 16-17.

By: Madelon Allen, Assistant Coordinator/Communications

STARKVILLE – The Mississippi State track and field team will be spending the weekend split between two meets, the War Eagle Invitational at Auburn and Virginia's Virginia Challenge. Both take place on April 16 and 17.

The majority of the squad will be in Alabama at the War Eagle Invitational, with four distance runners headed to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Cavaliers' Virginia Challenge meet.

Friday - April 16

War Eagle Invitational
The Bulldogs will see a limited amount of action on the first day at Auburn, with many of the events being on the field side. The throws group is set to compete in the men's and women's hammer and javelin, while the jumpers will participate in the men's and women's long jump.

Virginia Challenge
MSU's distance runners see most of their competition at Virginia on day one, with Sydney Steely making her debut in the 1500m, Sylvia Russell looking to improve on her 3000m steeplechase time, Giacomo DeLuca making his 5000m debut, and Chandler Underwood running his first 10,000m race of the season.

Saturday - April 17

War Eagle Invitational
The bulk of the action will take place on day two in Alabama, with the Bulldogs scheduled to compete in 27 events overall across the men's and women's squads. For the runners, there will be participants competing in the 100m, 100m hurdles, 110m hurdles, 200m, 400m, 400m hurdles, 800m, 1500m, and 5000m. For the relays, there will be participants in the 4x100m and 4x400m. On the field side, there will be Bulldogs in the women's pole vault, triple jump, high jump, discus and shot put, while the men compete in the triple jump, discus and shot put.

Virginia Challenge
In Virginia, the Bulldogs are entered in just one event on day two: Sydney Steely will debut in the 800m race.

The Field

At the War Eagle Invitational, the participating teams at the Hutsell-Rosen Track: Auburn, Alabama State, Cincinnati, Memphis, Missouri, Middle Tennessee, Samford, Southern Miss, Syracuse, Troy, and UAB's women.

The Virginia Challenge will see a larger field of more than 50 schools at Lannigan Field. Among those are Richmond, Duke, Syracuse, Virginia Tech, Pitt, Liberty, Georgetown, North Carolina, Boston College, Boston, Florida State, Tennessee, Wake Forest, West Virginia, Villanova, NC State, and more.

Rankings

Going into week four of competition, the men are ranked 18^th and the women are 74^th on the USTFCCCA's DI National TFRI rankings. Listed below are those who are ranked in the top-25 of both the NCAA and SEC in their events.

Name	Event	NCAA	SEC
Leon Clarke	800m	No. 18	No. 7
Rosealee Cooper	100m Hurdles	No. 14	No. 6
Jesse Henderson	110m Hurdles	No. 12	No. 5
Sylvia Russell	3000m Steeplechase	No. 21	No. 3
Asia Poe	High Jump	No. 21	No. 7
Cameron Crump	Long Jump	No. 15	No. 3
Sindri Guðmundsson	Javelin	No. 1	No. 1
DJ Jónsson	Javelin	No. 3	No. 2
Tyriq Horsford	Javelin	No. 6	No. 3
Shayla Broughton	Heptathlon	No. 23	No. 6

Through the first three weeks of competition, three Bulldogs have earned a weekly award from the SEC. Week one it was Sindri Guðmundsson as Male Field Athlete of the Week, week two it was DJ Jónsson as Male Freshman of the Week, and week three was Jesse Henderson as Male Freshman of the Week.

Eyes on the Olympics

Wednesday, April 13, marked 100 days from the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Games were postponed from the summer of 2020 due to the global coronavirus pandemic, but are set to begin competition on Friday, July 23 of 2021. Two former Bulldogs were listed in early medal predictions recently: Marco Arop for the 800m for Canada and Anderson Peters for the javelin for Grenada. There are several other names of current and former Bulldogs who would like to be chosen to travel to Tokyo, but only time will tell.

Follow Along

Both meets will have live results provided. Delta Timing will be the timer for the War Eagle Invite, while Flash Results is responsible for the Virginia Challenge.

The War Eagle Invitational will not be allowing outside spectators into the event. The Virginia Challenge's attendance is limited to family of student-athletes and the coaching staffs.

A full recap and results will be posted on HailState.com after the conclusion of competition each day.

For more information on the Bulldog track and field squad, search "HailStateTF" on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.