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SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University will host the 2011 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Women's Outdoor Track and Field Championships May 12-14 at the Bill Lennox Track Complex in Slippery Rock, Pa.

Some of the best track and field athletes in the nation will compete at SRU during the three-day meet, which will kick off Thursday with finals in the hammer throw and 10,000-meter run and the opening day of competition in the multi-events.

No admission will be charged Thursday, but admission for Friday and Saturday is set at $7 per day for adults and $2 per day for students. All students from PSAC institutions will be admitted free with a valid ID.

Headlining the event will be three teams that are currently ranked in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) top-25 poll. No. 12 Shippensburg will look to defend its 2010 PSAC championship while No. 16 Slippery Rock, winners of four of the last five outdoor championships, tries to capture its PSAC-record 17th title. No. 25 East Stroudsburg will be looking to knock off the two traditional powerhouses and pick up its first PSAC outdoor title.

Bloomsburg, California (Pa.), Cheyney, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana (Pa.), Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville and West Chester will also vie for the conference crown.

Shippensburg claimed its fifth outdoor title last season by scoring 212.5 points. Slippery Rock came in second with 183 points and Kutztown placed third with 99.5 points. East Stroudsburg and Indiana rounded out the top-five with 97 and 68 points.

The 2011 women's competition will begin 11:30 a.m. Thursday with the first four events of the heptathlon followed by the hammer throw and the 10,000-meter run before a full docket of events on Friday and Saturday. An awards ceremony will follow at the conclusion of Saturday's events.

Winners of 10 events from last year's meet are back in hopes of repeating their championship performances from a year ago.

Five-time All-American, and 2010 PSAC Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year, Neely Spence of Shippensburg has the chance to capture her third consecutive title in both the 3,000-meter and the 5,000-meter run. Spence enters the PSAC championships with the best 5,000-meter time in NCAA Division II this season at 15:33.83. The distance runner phenom also owns the top 3,000-meter time in the PSAC this year (9:10.82).

Kutztown's Ashley Pinter returns in both the discus and hammer throw events. Last season, Pinter won the discus by over three meters with a mark of 44.14 meters. This season, Pinter owns the top throws in the PSAC in both events.

Slippery Rock's Tiffany Tedesco won the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes last season and is back in both events again in 2011. Tedesco won the 200-meters last year after running a PR of 24.99 in the race. This season, Tedesco has fought through injuries to qualify for both races.

Other returning champions include Indiana's Laurie Ajavon, Kutztown's April Doyle, East Stroudsburg's Lynn Mayer and Slippery Rock's Amanda Seigworth.

Ajavon won the long jump last year and already has the top jump in the PSAC, and ninth best in the nation, this season thanks to a qualifying mark of 5.90 meters. As was the case last season, Doyle hopes to help Kutztown make a clean sweep of the throwing events when she attempts to repeat in the shot put. So far this season, Doyle is the only shot put athlete in the PSAC with an NCAA provisional qualifying throw (14.12 meters).

Seigworth has enjoyed a fine season for SRU. Last year's 400-meter hurdle champion ran the fastest 400-meter hurdle time in the PSAC this season with a 1:00.13 race three weeks ago at the Ashland Open. Meyer is one of the top high jumpers in the conference as evidenced by her PSAC title in 2010 and her PSAC-best clearance of 1.74 meters this season.

Contenders for PSAC championships in track events in which last year's champion is not returning include (event and top time in parenthesis): Simone Carter of Cheyney (100-meters / 12.10), California's Monique Sims (200-meters / 25.18), Shippensburg's Erica Hess (400-meters / 55.95), Amanda Raudabaugh of Shippensburg (800-meters / 2:08.71 and 1,500-meters / 4:30.83), Millersville's Elicia Anderson (10,000-meters / 34:17.92), Seigworth (100-meter hurdles / 14.35) and Kutztown's Cristina Reimer (Steeplechase / 10:35.35).

Top field athlete contenders are Slippery Rock's Lexi Arnold (Javelin / 44.83 meters), Shippensburg's Megan Breski (Pole Vault / 3.50 meters), Indiana's Brianna Liebold (Triple Jump / 12.00 meters) and West Chester's Melinda Wentz (Heptathlon / 4,632 points).

The Slippery Rock University sports information staff has set up a homepage for the event, which can be accessed via the link at the top of this page. Live streaming results will be available through a link on that homepage.

Other features of the meet homepage include performance lists, PSAC records, area hotel and restaurant information and the meet schedule. The SRU sports information staff will also post photo galleries and video to the homepage throughout each day of competition.