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Track & Field Competition Starts Thursday 4/20/2006 More than 800 Collegiate Athletes Entered in Vanderbilt Invitational Nashville, Tenn. — Three days of track and field competition on the Vanderbilt campus get started Thursday afternoon with the highly anticipated Great Eight Invitational for top Middle Tennessee prep athletes. The Vanderbilt Invitational, a collegiate event expected to attract more than 800 student-athletes to Nashville, begins Friday afternoon and continues through Saturday. Admission is free to both events. Field events in the Great Eight Invitational start at 3 p.m., Thursday, while competition in the Vanderbilt Invitational is expected to get underway at 4:30 p.m., Friday. On Saturday, competition starts at 12 noon. Commodore Head Coach Lori Shepard is excited about both meets, and expects a record turnout of participants at the Vanderbilt Invitational. “The entries are definitely up for the Vanderbilt Invitational,” Shepard said. “In addition to the entries, I’m happy that the quality of competition appears to be improved.” Two Southeastern Conference members, Tennessee and Alabama, are expected to join a large Commodore women’s contingent at the Vanderbilt Invitational. The Volunteers will travel with a men’s squad while the Crimson Tide will be represented by a women’s squad. Other nearby colleges represented among the 35 squads enters are Middle Tennessee, Tennessee State and Western Kentucky. The top Vanderbilt entrants are Garnetta Holloway, a versatile senior who could compete in the hurdles, high jump, javelin and long jump, and distance runners Amy Huss and Erika Schneble. |
