WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Following a two-week layoff, the Anderson track and field teams return to the Tar Heel State on Saturday and are set to wrap up their respective indoor seasons by competing at the UCS Invitational, which is slated to be held at the JDL Fast Track.
Sophomore Mason Hazel and junior Olivia Gardner are coming off record-setting performances in their respective 5000 meter runs at Grand Valley State's 2016 Big Meet a week ago, with Hazel notching an NCAA-provisional qualifying time, while Gardner crossed the finish line in a school-record effort.
A year ago in Winston-Salem, Gardner earned a sixth-place finish
in the women's 5000 meter run, with Sherin Malone capturing 11th in
the preliminaries of the 60 meter hurdles and Ali Caldwell notching
29th.
Bari Robinson crossed the line in 15th place in the 800 meter run,
while Taylor Morris claimed 28th. The duo of Haylee Love and Alex
Dixon finished 21st and 33rd, respectively in the one mile run and
Grace Gerlock and Mia Swiersz claimed 24th and 26th, respectively,
in the 3000 meter run, with Allison Halperin crossing the line in
27th in a time of 11:48.96
On the men's side last season, Hazel captured third place in the
men's 5000 meter run, with Ned Kennedy and Ben Boerma finishing
17th and 20th, respectively. Hazel crossed the line in ninth place
in the 3000 meter run, while Jesse Patrick and Michael Burch placed
33rd and 36th.
Christopher Burton claimed fifth place in the men's 200 meter dash,
with classmates Rashod Monts, T.J. Robinson and Joseph Siegwald
finishing 16th, 37th and 40th, respectively. Anthony Aleruchi
finished 10th in the weight throw and claimed 11th in the shot put.
Eric Hoover took 12th in the triple jump junior Joshua Visi-Clark
finished 27th in the 800 meter run.
Monts brought home 20th in the 400 meter run, while Hoover placed 46th. Burton claimed 24th in the long jump, with Siegwald finishing 27th. Burton claimed 22nd in the 60 meter dash prelims, with Caleb Stephenson and Robinson earning 31st and 36th. The 4x400 meter relay team of Monts, Burton, Josh Visi-Clark and Stephenson brought home 11th with a time of 3:35.76.
The Trojans begin their outdoor slate at the Charlotte
Invitational in mid-March.
