NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Vanderbilt track and field team will head down to Florida to compete in the renown Pepsi Florida Relays on Friday and Saturday.
The two-day meet is hosted by the University of Florida. The Commodores will compete on Friday at 3:45 p.m. in the long jump, discus, 200 meter dash, 400 meter hurdles, steeplechase, and end with the 5,000 meter run at 8:20 p.m. Saturday’s events begin at 11 a.m. with the shot put followed by the high jump, 4×100 meter relay, 800 meter run, 400 meter, 100 meters dash, 3,000 run, and conclude at 4:40 p.m. with the 4×400 meter relay.
Representing Vandy this weekend will be Nicole Anderson, Haley Bishop, Joslin Blair, Kaira Brown, Jess Creedon, Cameron Fawcett, Madison Fuller, Grace Jensen, Ella Lambert, Divine Oladipo, Julia Rosenberg, Taiya Shelby, Jada Sims, Jordan Smith, and Haley Walker.
The distance group of McKenzie Yanek, Niki Narayani, and Caroline Eck competed at the Raleigh Relays last weekend in North Carolina. The Wolfpack of NC State hosted the competitive distance event. Nick Laning also competed at the meet in the men’s 1,500 meters and set a personal best in the event with a time of 3:48.53. Yanek’s first collegiate outdoor race was tonight’s 10,000 meters. Her time of 34:10.30 is now the No.2 time in school history in the event and 21st overall on the night.
On Day 2 of the meet, Narayani’s (4:34.23) heat concluded first with her setting a personal best in the event. Lambert finished her first ever outdoor 1,500 meter race with a time of 4:40.68. Eck raced the Commodores’ second quickest time of 4:27.99. Jensen concluded the event in the last heat of the night in 4:21.51.
Oladipo recently competed at the Ole Miss Classic in both the shot put and discus, with silver and bronze finishes respectively in the events. She reset the discus record with a mark of 52.25 meters and entered the top-10 in school history in the shot put at 15.51 meters which is the second overall mark in school history.
