Vandy Heads to Virginia Beach

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Vanderbilt track and field continues its road swing Friday and Saturday at the East Coast invitational in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The event is held at the Virginia Beach Sports Center and will serve as a preview of the site for the 2025 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships.

Dore notes

• The Commodores hit the road for the first time this season and traveled to College Station, Texas, to compete at the Ted Nelson Invitational
• Vandy saw SEC opponents Auburn, Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Texas A&M
• Junior Taylor McKinnon, who was the Dores top finisher in the 60-meter hurdles, clocked 8.61 seconds and finished 11th
• Junior Marta Sivina recorded a personal-best time of 8.66 seconds in the 60mH, which is the 10th-ranked time on the program’s all-time performers list
• Junior Audrey Allman PRed in the mile with a time of 4:47.93, which also earned a fourth-place finish
• Senior Julia Rosenberg won the 3,000 meters invite section with a time of 9:26.05
• Graduate student Ellie Wolski clocked 9:35.32, a 10-second PR, to finish third
• The distance medley relay of junior Mackenzie Culpepper, freshmen Devyn Parham and Kenyah Conner and graduate student Ella Lambert won the event with a time of 11:40.51
• Rosenberg and the distance medley relay set facility records at the R.A. “Murray” Fasken Indoor Track
• Junior Allyria McBride was Vandy’s top finisher in the long jump, recording a 5.99-meter mark and placing seventh
• In the high jump, sophomore Rowan Houston finished fifth with a 1.67-meter clearance
• Active student-athletes hold three indoor school records and have registered 28 marks ranking in the program all-time top 10

Action gets underway at 2:15 p.m. CT with the 60 meters prelims. Live results are available online.