SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University track and field program will have 103 student-athletes competing in three different states Friday and Saturday with athletes competing at the Penn Relays, the East Coast Relays and the WVU Mountaineer Twilight. Meet information and a breakdown of the weekend is available below.
 
 PSAC/NCAA QUALIFYING STANDARDS
• 2023 Qualifying Standards
• PSAC Performance List
• NCAA DII Performance List

PENN RELAYS INFO AND PREVIEW
• Date: Friday, April 28 (noon start for SRU)
• Location: Franklin Field (University of Penn.) | Philadelphia, Pa.
• SRU Athletes Competing: Sarah Corrie, Dalton Anderson, John Eakin, Joshua Gose
• Live Results Link
 
SRU Schedule:
• Noon – Women's Shot Put (Sarah Corrie)
• 1:45 p.m. – Men's Javelin (Dalton Anderson)
• 3 p.m. – Men's Shot Put (John Eakin, Joshua Gose)
 
All four of the SRU athletes heading to historic Franklin Field for the Penn Relays currently rank in the top 21 among all Division II athletes this spring in their respective events. Sarah Corrie will open competition Friday for SRU when she competes in the college women's shot put at noon. Corrie is one of only four non-Division I athletes accepted into the field, where she will be joined by two other Division II throwers and one Division III thrower. She currently sits No. 1 in the PSAC and No. 21 in DII with a best of 14.21 meters. Dalton Anderson will compete in the men's college javelin at 1:45 p.m. Friday. Anderson is one of just six non-Division I athletes to be accepted into the event. He enters the meet ranked No. 1 in the PSAC and No. 14 in Divison II with a season-best of 63.53 meters. John Eakin and Joshua Gose will close out the meet for SRU in the men's college shot put Friday at 3 p.m. They are two of just four non-Division I athletes accepted to compete in the event. Eakin currently ranks No. 2 in the PSAC and No. 11 in Division II with a throw of 17.63 meters, while Gose is No. 3 in the PSAC and No. 19 in Division II with a toss of 17.22 meters.
 
EAST COAST RELAYS INFO AND PREVIEW
• Date: Saturday, April 29 (11 a.m.)
• Location: Hodges Stadium (University of North Florida) | Jacksonville, Fla.
• SRU Athlete Competing: Trinity Clark
• Live Results Link
 
Clark will be the lone SRU athlete competing down south in Florida when she competes in the javelin Saturday at 11 a.m. at the University of North Florida's East Coast Relays. She is one of just five non-Division I athletes entered in the competition, which includes two other Division II athletes. The top flight includes eight Division I throwers with entries from Miami, Tulane, Buffalo, Florida International, High Point and Kennesaw State. Clark enters the competition ranked No. 1 in the PSAC and No. 17 in Division II with a season-best of 43.63 meters.
 
WVU MOUNTAINEER TWILIGHT INFO
• Date: Saturday, April 29
• Location: Mylan Park (West Virginia University) | Morgantown, W.Va.
• SRU Athletes Competing: 98 (44 men, 54 women)
• Hammer starts at 2 p.m.
• Other field events start at 3:30 p.m.
• Track events start at 5 p.m.
• Full Meet Schedule
• Live Results Link
 
MEN'S WVU BREAKDOWN
Slippery Rock will send 44 men to WVU to compete Saturday evening.
 
The Rock will be led at WVU by a pair of athletes with NCAA provisional marks in the form of pole vaulter Dan Hyatt and hammer thrower Joshua VanDeMark. Both men set career bests and hit NCAA marks last week with Hyatt clearing 4.82 meters in the pole vault to rank No. 31 in DII and VanDeMark throwing 57.42 meters in the hammer to rank No. 30 in Division II.
 
The Rock's 4x100-meter relay also owns an NCAA time and ranks No. 38 in DII with a time of 40.98 seconds. That team was Kadin Johnson, AJ Virata, Matthew Crow and Bryan Dworek. The squad could also see the addition of Kanye Thompson or Cam Lindsey.
 
Virata will race both the short sprints and enters the meet ranked No. 1 in the PSAC in the 100-meter dash (10.62) and No. 3 in the 200-meter dash (21.67). Crow will race the 110-meter hurdles, where he currently ranks No. 2 in the PSAC (14.83).
 
Mid-distance standouts Shannon Dooley and Devon Navaroli will also race their specialties this weekend with Navaroli entering the 1,500-meter run ranked No. 3 in the PSAC (3:53.38) and Dooley entering the 800-meter run ranked No. 4 in the PSAC (1:52.90).
 
The trio of Taye Lynch, Zack Duda and Ian James enter the triple jump ranked No. 3, No. 4 and No. 5 in the PSAC this season with Lynch leading the way at 14.32 meters, followed by Duda at 13.90 meters and James at 13.74 meters.
 
The headliners at WVU are capped by freshman discus thrower Seaton Wozniak, who enters the weekend ranked No. 5 in the PSAC at 46.22 meters.
 
TOP SRU MEN'S ENTRIES AT WVU
• 100m: AJ Virata, Kanye Thompson
• 200m: AJ Virata, Matthew Crow
• 400m: Kadin Johnson, Alex Dickson
• 800m: Shannon Dooley
• 1,500m: Devon Navaroli, Shannon Dooley
• 5,000m: John Juszynski
• 110m HH: Matthew Crow, Brenden Lewis
• 400m IH: Cade Adams, Tyler Morosky
• 3,000m Steeplechase: Noah Johnson
• 4x100m Relay: Kadin Johnson, AJ Virata, Matthew Crow, Bryan Dworek
• 4x400m Relay: Kadin Johnson, Tyler Morosky, Cade Adams, Alex Dickson
• HJ: Robert Kozares, Zack Duda
• PV: Dan Hyatt, Jakob Graff
• LJ: Gavin Thomas, Zack Duda
• TJ: Taye Lynch, Zack Duda
• SP: Seaton Wozniak, Joshua Rohland
• DT: Seaton Wozniak, Zach Gose
• HT: Joshua VanDeMark, Brandon McCray
• JT: Josh Kingerski, Earnie Zilka
 
WOMEN'S WVU BREAKDOWN
Slippery Rock will send 54 women to WVU to compete Saturday evening.
 
The Rock will be led at WVU by a pair of athletes with NCAA provisional marks in the form of distance runner Anna Igims and pole vaulter Kendall Grossman. Igims currently ranks No. 16 in DII in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (10:39), but will drop down and race the 1,500-meter run Saturday. Grossman is coming off a career-best 3.84-meter clearance last week and enters the meet ranked No. 21 in Division II in the pole vault.
 
The Rock's 4x100-meter relay team of Samantha Gilbert, Haley Morgan, Regan Johnson and Thai-Lin Pierce enter the weekend ranked No. 2 in the PSAC at 47.15 seconds. Gilbert also ranks No. 5 in the PSAC in the 100-meter dash (11.98).
 
Hurdlers Chaley Younkin and Rachel Veneziano enter the weekend ranked fourth in the PSAC in both hurdle races with Younkin's 100-meter hurdle time of 14.80 seconds and Veneziano's 400-meter hurdle time of 1:04.74.
 
Distance runners Marianne Abdalah and Katie Plassio will lead the way in the 5,00-meter run. Plassio enters the meet ranked No. 3 in the PSAC in the 10,000-meter run (38:43).
 
Tiffany Jolayemi will headline with hammer and discus entries this weekend and enters the meet ranked No. 3 in the PSAC in the hammer (51.37m).
 
Olivia Sentle will join Grossman in leading the charge in the pole vault, where she ranks No. 4 in the PSAC with a clearance of 3.65 meters. The Rock's athletes with top five marks in the PSAC competing this weekend are capped by Aleks Brozeski, who sits No. 5 in the PSAC in the triple jump with a leap of 11.67 meters.
 
TOP SRU WOMEN'S ENTRIES AT WVU
• 100m: Samantha Gilbert, Thai-Lin Pierce
• 200m: Samantha Gilbert, Thai-Lin Pierce
• 400m: Madison Olsen, Emily Martz
• 800m: Jordan Klick, Allison Rennette
• 1,500m: Anna Igims
• 5,000m: Marianne Abdalah, Katie Plassio
• 100m HH: Chaley Younkin, Chalondra Clarke
• 400m LH: Rachel Veneziano, Chaley Younkin
• 3,000m Steeplechase: Morgan Dennison, Jennifer Cichra
• 4x100m: Samantha Gilbert, Haley Morgan, Regan Johnson, Thai-Lin Pierce
• 4x400m: Rachel Veneziano, Chaley Younkin, Madison Olsen, Thai-Lin Pierce
• HJ: Amera Coleman, Alexa Stianche
• PV: Kendall Grossman, Olivia Sentle
• LJ: Baylee Blauser, Samantha Gilbert
• TJ: Aleks Brozeski, Alice Bogia
• SP: Olivia Heckman, Rebekah Ketner
• DT: Tiffany Jolayemi, Rachel Hutchinson
• HT: Tiffany Jolayemi, Rachel Hutchinson
• JT: Skylar Sherry, Olivia Heckman

RECAPS AND RESULTS
Recaps and results from all three competitions will be posted to www.RockAthletics.com late Saturday evening or Sunday morning, depending on when the WVU meet has official results completed Saturday night.




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