MSU Track & Field Team Travels To Arkansas For SEC Indoors
STARKVILLE, Miss. – Championship season is getting underway for Mississippi State women’s track and field team, as it travels to Fayetteville, Ark., for the 2011 SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Competition begins Friday and will conclude Sunday at the Randal Tyson Track Center at the University of Arkansas.
“We have a small group travelling to Fayetteville this weekend,” MSU coach Steve Dudley said. “Every one of the girls going deserves to be there, and if they perform at their highest ability our journey to the top will be much easier.”
A host of Lady Bulldogs are making the trip, including the MSU distance team, which is coming off impressive finishes at the Texas A&M Invite.
The distance team is young this year, but that has not stopped them from dreaming big and putting up impressive times at previous meets. At the recent Texas A&M Invite, the distance medley team of sophomores Chloe Phillips, Keisha Wallace, Skylar Wallen and freshman Katie Huston finished fourth, while sophomore Haley Greenwell posted her second top five finish of the season finishing fifth in the 3000m.
Junior thrower Favian Cowards is also making the trip and is looking to fare well in the throwing events. Cowards is coming off a fourth place weight throw finish at the Texas A&M Invite and is hoping to better her best SEC finish of eighth from the 2009 Championships.
SEC competition begins Friday at 1:30 p.m., with the heptathlon.
Also competing this weekend are three Bulldog sprinters. Sophomore Tavaris Tate, freshman James Harris and junior D'Angelo Cherry will travel to Albuquerque, N.M., for the 2011 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Tate, the MSU indoor 400-meter record holder, and Harris will put their skills to test in the 400-meter dash. Harris will also compete in the high jump, while Cherry, who set a USA Junior record at this meet in 2009, will compete in the 60-meter dash. The preliminary rounds of their respective events begin Saturday, with the finals being televised Sunday on ESPN beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Competition begins Friday and will conclude Sunday at the Randal Tyson Track Center at the University of Arkansas.
“We have a small group travelling to Fayetteville this weekend,” MSU coach Steve Dudley said. “Every one of the girls going deserves to be there, and if they perform at their highest ability our journey to the top will be much easier.”
A host of Lady Bulldogs are making the trip, including the MSU distance team, which is coming off impressive finishes at the Texas A&M Invite.
The distance team is young this year, but that has not stopped them from dreaming big and putting up impressive times at previous meets. At the recent Texas A&M Invite, the distance medley team of sophomores Chloe Phillips, Keisha Wallace, Skylar Wallen and freshman Katie Huston finished fourth, while sophomore Haley Greenwell posted her second top five finish of the season finishing fifth in the 3000m.
Junior thrower Favian Cowards is also making the trip and is looking to fare well in the throwing events. Cowards is coming off a fourth place weight throw finish at the Texas A&M Invite and is hoping to better her best SEC finish of eighth from the 2009 Championships.
SEC competition begins Friday at 1:30 p.m., with the heptathlon.
Also competing this weekend are three Bulldog sprinters. Sophomore Tavaris Tate, freshman James Harris and junior D'Angelo Cherry will travel to Albuquerque, N.M., for the 2011 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships.
Tate, the MSU indoor 400-meter record holder, and Harris will put their skills to test in the 400-meter dash. Harris will also compete in the high jump, while Cherry, who set a USA Junior record at this meet in 2009, will compete in the 60-meter dash. The preliminary rounds of their respective events begin Saturday, with the finals being televised Sunday on ESPN beginning at 3:30 p.m.