Ball State University Athletics
Track & Field Heads To Oxford For Miami Invitational
April 02, 2015 | Track & Field
MUNCIE, Ind. - - The Ball State track & field team is set to compete in its second outdoor meet of the 2015 season when it travels to Oxford, Ohio, for Saturday's Miami Invitational at George L. Rider Track.
The meet was originally scheduled to run Friday and Saturday, but Friday's forecasted wet weather has led to an adjustment to the meet schedule. Field events are now slated to start at 9:30 a.m. with the women's hammer, while track events begin at 10 a.m. with the women's 10,000m run.
The Miami Invitational will mark just the second outdoor meet for the Cardinals this season, after weather forced the cancelation of last weekend's Polar Bear Invitational hosted by Indiana Wesleyan University. Ball State opened the outdoor season with 17 top 10 finishes at the Bulls Invitational hosted by USF March 19-20.
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- Senior Christina Crawford (Belleville, Mich./Romulus) and sophomore Makelle Skelton (Fort Wayne, Ind./Northrop) enter the week ranked second (5.72m) and fourth (5.55m), respectively, on the Mid-American Conference Outdoor Performance list in the long jump. During the indoor season, Skelton earned All-MAC Second Team honors for placing second in the long jump at the MAC Indoor Championships, while Crawford followed close behind in third.
- Ball State's senior twin duo of Courtney Edon (New Palestine, Ind./New Palestine) and Caitlynn Edon (New Palestine, Ind./New Palestine) enter the week ranked sixth (11:35.84) and seventh (11:50.25), respectively, on the MAC Outdoor Performance list in the 3000m steeplechase. Courtney Edon was Ball State's top overall finisher at the season-opening Bulls Invitational (March 19-20) with her second-place showing in the 3000m steeplechase.
- Ball State's battle for the pole vault record looks to heat up again this weekend with senior Hannah Ciasto-Poor (Bloomington, Ind./Bloomington South) entering the meet as the program's outdoor record holder after clearing the bar at a height of 3.72m at last season's Dave Rankin Invitational (May 2, 2014) … Ciasto-Poor also held the indoor record with a mark of 3.75m set at the Illini Classic, only to have sophomore Elizabeth Eversole (Mishawaka, Ind./Marian) break the mark with a program-record vault of 3.77m at the Ball State Invitational (Feb. 20).
- Junior Marie Lumpkin (Losantville, Ind./Union) enters the Miami Invitational ranked sixth in the MAC in the hammer with a toss of 50.06m at the Bulls Invitational (March 19) … During the indoor season, Lumpkin placed eighth in the weight throw at the MAC Indoor Championship (Feb. 27) with a toss of 17.22m.
- Ball State's student-athletes have posted eight career-best efforts so far during the outdoor season.
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