Track And Field Set For Hendrix College Alumni Open

Senior Veronica Dougherty and the Ladies are set for their second meet of the season.
Senior Veronica Dougherty and the Ladies are set for their second meet of the season.

Conway, Ark.- The Centenary men's and women's track and field teams are set for their second meet of the season on Saturday as the Maroon and White will compete in the Hendrix College Alumni Open at Young-Wise Memorial Stadium.

The meet is the second for the Ladies and Gents after they took part in the Mississippi College Spring Cleaning Meet last Saturday in Clinton, Miss.

The Gents' team of freshman Lydell Hunter (New Orleans. La.), junior Xavier Venious (Bossier City, La.), freshman Randy Levert (New Orleans, La.), and freshman Joshua Ware (Shreveport, La.) ran the 14th-fastest time (43.75) so far this season in division III in the 4x 100 relay to highlight the meet.

Senior Kevin Brown (New Orleans, La.) earned a 14th-place finish in the javelin (40.35m). Junior Madison Schonberg (Harbor City, Calif.) earned a pair of 16th-place finishes in the discus (25.49m) and shot put (8.44m).

Saturday, March 11
Field Events:
11:30 – Shot Put – Women followed by men
11:30 – Discus – Men followed by women
11:30 – Long Jump – Women followed by men
11:30 – Pole Vault – Women followed by men
1:30 – High Jump – Women followed by men
2:30 – Triple Jump – Women followed by men
2:30 – Javelin – Men followed by women

Running Events: (all events will be women first, followed by men)
1:00 3000m Steeplechase
1:30 4x100m Relay
1:40 1500m
1:55 100/110m Hurdles
2:10 400m
2:25 100m
2:40 800m
3:00 400m Hurdles
3:10 200m
3:30 5000m
4:10 4x400m Relay

The meet at Hendrix is the second of six regular-season meets for the Maroon and White leading up to the annual Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships set for April 22-23 in Georgetown, Texas.

See the complete Gents' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/mtrack/2022-23/schedule

See the complete Ladies' season schedule here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wtrack/2022-23/schedule

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